How To Series - Staying Hydrated for Frequent Flyers 2

Another post with ideas on how to stay hydrated on the road. Follow the 3 steps of my previous post - 

Do This

Step 1:  Buy a non-BPA water bottle

Step 2: Buy the PRODUCT (this time Beetroot Crystals)

Step 3: Add a tablespoon of the Beetroot Crystals to a full bottle of water

Lets connect the dots

Beetroot has been researched and found to increase oxygen uptake. Where there is oxygen there is water, therefore there is hydration.

Beetroot has also been found to help the cardiovascular system develop tone via the production of nitrate. This is valuable as through its function the cardiovascular helps the body stay hydrated.

Takeaways

Use Beetroot to

• Hydrate via the production of oxygen. 
• Increase the tone of your cardiovascular system from nitrate.
• Help your body detox, beetroot contains methyl groups that aid detoxification if you detoxify regularly you stand a better chance of hydrating better.

References

Beetroot juice and exercise pharmacodynamic and dose-response relationships - Wylie, L.J., Kelly, J., Bailey, S.J., Blackwell, J.R., Skiba, P.F., Winyard, P.G., Jeukendrup, A.E., Vanhatalo, A. and Jones, A.M. 2013. Beetroot juice and exercise: pharmacodynamic and dose-response relationships.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985). 115, 3 (Aug. 2013), 325–36.

Inflight Health Briefing - Hydration

You may have heard it all before -

" The plane leaves me so dehydrated" 

"Drink plenty of water"

"My skin is so dry, I went to sleep on the plane and woke up with a dry mouth"

"I went to pee and it was yellow" 

These are all symptoms of various stages of dehydration. Dehydration is almost unavoidable if you travel often. Get the cure to this problem with this insider scoop, the Inflight Health Briefing Sheet on Hydration. These are some of the tools the pro's use.

KLM Launch World's First On-Tap Draught Beer - Comment

Special circumstances require special measures, and although flying at 36,000 feet doesn’t seem particularly different or special, the truth is, it is a rather unique environment. It is not the kind of environment to encourage the consumption of the world’s first on tap draught beer at altitude. If this kind of first continues it will end up doing more harm to the flying public than good, here’s why.

Of late we have seen a continued trend aimed at easing the plight of the traveler throughout the aviation industry. It has come in the guise of technological advancement of the planes. The airport and baggage infrastructure that runs in the background, designed to make travel seamless and even the quality of sustenance served on-board (draught beer is NOT sustenance!)  This trend has gradually changed focus from infrastructure enhancements to people-centered enhancements. Recent surveys point to a growing trend of wellness centered initiatives to make flying healthier, it is hard to square this circle of health inspired solutions for travelers by introducing draught beer.

When you travel as much as some productive frequent flyers traipsing the globe, the watch word becomes efficiency, how can I get from A to B and do a good job with the least expenditure of energy on my part. Efficiency these days includes health amongst other factors. Flyers would do well to note that draught beer in no way enhances their efficiency as travelers. On the contrary, it will probably encourage the conditions that lead to jet lag.

Apart from the brutal reality of what airline travel does to the body we also have to consider the messages we are sending out when we embrace an innovation like this as progress.

1.    We are saying drinking at altitude is a good thing even though the barometric pressure is different than sea-level and causes intoxication more rapidly.

2.    We are encouraging anti-social behavior at altitude when people indulge in too much of a good thing.(Not to mention the problems of policing alcohol in the lounge before boarding).

3.    We are shifting the burden of responsibility to airline crew to police drinkers in a confined space with possible dangerous implications for everyone on the flight, air rage for whatever reason is still with us, we do not need to put more tools within reach of misbehaving or disgruntled travelers.

Draught beer belongs in your pub not at 36,000 feet. http://fxn.ws/29BBK5S

Farewell Jet Lag Readers Guide

Hi Everybody,

This is a quick post, a 5 minute guide to getting the best from my book Farewell Jet Lag - Cures from A Flight Attendant available now on Amazon UK and Amazon USA. 

Like the headline says, the link below leads to a guide on how to read the book for the best results you are after, depending on the type of frequent flyer you are.

Your comments are welcome below.

ClickE HERE  to go to the readers guide.

Wherever You Go P.H.A.R.E Well

Till next time