pH? Pleeeeeease (low tone).... it's all about osmolarity.
Quote of the Day:
“We recommend you drinking Gatorade or Powerade instead of water during the breaks between sections so that you don’t have to pee during the middle of a test because the pH of these drinks is the same as you.”
-Avine, from Kaplen

By the way, the quote above is partially inaccurate. It is true that sports drinks, such as the ones mentioned above, does diminish a person’s desire to pee but this is not because of the pH levels in the drinks. The reason is that these drinks were specifically formulated to have the same osmolarity (the measure of the osmotic pressure exerted by a solution across a perfect semi-permeable membrane) as your blood. Drinking water, which is hypotonic to your blood for example, would cause you to pee more frequently because water is being forced into your tissues. Since tissues only require so much water, the excess is directed to your kidneys which make you want to pee. Drinking water with high salt content would have an opposite affect on you. Since these sport drinks are isotonic to your blood, there would be less water diverted to your kidneys. It’s not the pH level effects, but the osmolarity effects that makes you want to pee less. I’m just messing with Avine because she’s not a teacher at Kaplen but a promoter and an organizer. Plus she appears to be extremely nice, smiling a lot, good use of voice projection, and pretty hot too.

I got my scores back from Saturday and I improved by a point from 31 to 32. I KNOW I can reach at least a 35. I KNOW I can do it.