Exercising stimulates your brain functioning and helps with blood glucose levels. Performance drinks such as Gatorade improves cognitive functioning during exercise more than water. These drinks should be taken before exercising and during to have the best effect on your brain. It is shown that endurance exercising is the best workout for drinking glucose supplementation drinks (Gatorade), due to glucose blood levels being low. Gatorade has a more beneficial and longer affect on cognitive function than water, because it provides electrolytes that the brain needs (Williams, et al., 2015) .
The amount of exercise duration plays a big role on how much your brain will positively be impacted in cognitive functioning. It is shown that drinking Gatorade before and during your exercise keeps your blood glucose levels balanced. However, when drinking water alone it makes your body temperature go up and your blood glucose levels go down. When exercising it is very important to stay at a balanced glucose level by drinking Gatorade, since it has been proven to have a more positive impact (Williams, et al., 2015).
