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Why UP&RUN Advance Is 1000mg Sodium, 200mg Potassium, 60mg Magnesium
Every sachet: 1000mg sodium, 200mg potassium, 60mg magnesium, zero added sugar. Here's the reasoning behind those numbers, and just as importantly, what we left out.
The Starting Point
This ratio isn't a mystery formula we reverse-engineered from scratch, it's built on electrolyte ratios already proven to work for serious sweat loss, and we priced and formulated it for India rather than assuming an imported product would translate directly. Indian heat, humidity, and sweat rates are demanding enough that a formula built for temperate climates often falls short, that's the actual gap.
Traditional Indian practice already knew part of this. Nimbu paani with a pinch of salt during summer is the same basic logic: replace fluid and sodium together, not fluid alone.
Why Sodium Is the Anchor
Sodium is the mineral lost in the largest quantity through sweat, and it's the one most people under-replace, especially if they've cut processed food and restaurant meals from their diet without replacing the sodium those meals used to provide. Add in the sodium-depleting effect of intermittent fasting or low-carb eating, both increasingly common among Indian fitness enthusiasts, and the gap widens further.
Heavy training in Indian heat can mean real sodium loss over a session, more than most people replace through diet alone. Individual sweat rate and sweat sodium concentration vary a lot person to person, so we won't pretend to give you a number that applies to everyone. If you're training hard outdoors regularly, it's worth paying attention to.
Potassium: Filling the Gap Modern Cooking Leaves
200mg of potassium per sachet, alongside the sodium. Traditional Indian cooking methods, boiling, pressure cooking, can reduce the potassium content of vegetables before they reach your plate. Between that and the same processed-food elimination trend mentioned above, potassium intake often runs lower than people assume.
Food sources worth prioritizing: coconut water, bananas, spinach, sweet potatoes, rajma, and dal. UP&RUN is built to close the remaining gap, not replace those foods.
Magnesium: The One Most People Skip
60mg of magnesium, in the malate form for better absorption. Magnesium deficiency is genuinely common in urban Indian diets, high stress, irregular eating, and heat all increase how much your body loses or needs. It's also the mineral involved in sleep quality, muscle recovery, and energy production, functions that get noticed when they're missing, not when they're present.
Food sources: almonds, dark leafy greens like methi and sarson ka saag, pumpkin seeds, dark chocolate.
What We Left Out, On Purpose
There are seven electrolytes total: sodium, chloride, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphate, and bicarbonate. UP&RUN covers sodium, potassium, magnesium, and chloride (via sodium chloride and potassium chloride). Bicarbonate, your body already produces on its own. That leaves calcium and phosphorus, and we left both out deliberately.
Calcium: Most Indian diets already meet the roughly 1000mg daily recommendation through dairy, sesame, and leafy greens. There's also emerging, still-debated research linking calcium supplementation to arterial calcification risk. Given both points, food sources you already have access to, dahi, paneer, til, ragi, are the safer and sufficient route. We didn't see a reason to add supplemental calcium on top of that.
Phosphorus: Deficiency is rare in Indian diets. Dal, rajma, chana, wheat, and rice already provide more than enough. Adding it would be solving a problem that doesn't exist for most people.
The Bottom Line
We built this for a specific gap: sodium and potassium replacement for people sweating in Indian heat, magnesium for a mineral most diets underdeliver, and nothing extra bolted on to look more comprehensive on a label. Pair it with real food, not instead of it, and adjust based on how you actually respond, your climate, activity level, and diet all matter more than a one-size formula ever will.