I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and

educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential,

you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere

in a great sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.

And today we get really, really sweaty.

Yes, we revisit the topic of hydration.

And to help us get navigating through this topic is one of the world experts.

Andy Blow, the founder of precision hydration.

Now, if you don't know about precision, well, you should because we've already done a show on it.

So if you haven't listened to that first episode yet, pause.

Go back, have a listen, then come back to this one. Because in that first

episode, we talk all about the basic premise and the history of hydration and apply some

practical lessons. Today, we get really, really practical. We talk about sweat testing and we go

through several different case studies. And a lot of you guys might know

Andy and his team as working with a whole bunch of athletes in endurance sports. But increasingly,

they're starting to work with professional elite athletes across all of the major sports.

NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, for you British folks out there, that's football and basketball and

baseball and hockey, but also motor racing, Premier League soccer. The list goes on. And interestingly,

they do a lot of work in the occupational setting, a lot with military personnel, as well as workers in a whole

range of industrial jobs where sweat has a lot to do with their day-to-day activities due to

working in heat stress or protective clothing. Now, I see Andy in the team as, yes, they do some

hydration products, but really a wonderful source of education, and that's

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