Hydration isn’t complicated: Just drink water

Powerade is appropriate for World Cup athletes, but unless you’re also sweating buckets, water is usually enough. | Photo: Megan Briggs / Getty Images

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Europe is melting, the eastern US is currently trapped in a "heat dome," the Midwest has the corn sweats to look forward to, and if you've never felt the oppressive, sticky misery of monsoon season in Asia - consider yourself blessed. But as folks duke it out on social media about who has it hotter (and whether air conditioning is ethical), it's time to address a nonnegotiable truth of surviving summer: hydration.

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