Yea..
Too bad Propel has the Neurotoxin Sucralose in it. so much for "Fitness" water...
GO to Google and do a search on "sucralose"
you will never use it again.

Pre-Approval Research :
Pre-approval research showed that sucralose caused shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage) and enlarged liver and kidneys.

go try http://www.glaceau.com/ Instead

Propel is prob the best drink for anyone who has routine running, stretching or exercise. It really is Gatorade masked as water. On that note on sucralose, I have heard a lot about ppl attributing such claims to artifical sweeteners. However, I have read in various mags (such as SciAm) that said claims are unfounded and almost urban myths. Some people even used to say they'll weaken bone structure, cause cancer, and weaken metabolic processes. Please comment if you can Dan. Thnx.

Oh and also, the claims of neurotoxicity are attributed to aspartame, not sucralose. This is reportedly due to the conversion of some chemical to formaldehyde in the human body. However, the chemical concentration is so minute that it is unlikely that the toxic effects would be present. Sucralose has actually not been under skepticism, more likely you read on acesulfame potassium or aspartame. The thing about aspartame that is the root of the rumors is the fact that it is a wood ester (or wood alcohol) derivative. Also, from my medical knowledge thymus glands are useless once you reach adulthood anyway. They produce a portion of your white blood cells early on. However, through aging the tissues gradually produce less and most tissue is actually replaced by fat. it is this fatty tissue that equates to the large size of most thymus glands (up to the size of a small grapefruit, if you can believe it). If sucralose was as bad as you say it is, Splenda would have been given the inspections by the FDA (like those done on aspartame). Read your material Curtis!

All those fake sugars are called exitotoxins!
To bad I was thinking low surface tension but
with the flavoring and now an exitotoxin,
they mess it up. Again to bad.
I'll just have to get good water and put
drops of CRYSTAL ENERGY colloidal minerals
in and lower water tension that way.

Um, what the hell? Excitotoxins are various chemicals that have the potential to damage nerve cell receptors. I'm not sure about those sugar substitutes as being excitotoxins. But, if you can, rephrase what you said (I am guessing English is a 2nd language for you).

You now what!!!! I dont care about all that crap that the people were saying up there^^^ I like this drink,it dosent do crap for your energy but its refreshing, and real good after a long bike ride or whatever. Go try it, its pretty tasty, and splenda(sucralose) is a non- cancerous artaficial sweetener, it wont hurt you any more than a peice of lettece...lol, the artaficial sweetener you gotta be carful of is the crap in Diet coke.

i think that last comment was good. Everyone should stop worrying about the smallest things and just enjoy life. Its a great drink and i have it every day!

I have recently done a bit of research on aspartame and the facts were so alarming that I stopped drinking diet coke because I drank about 5 every day for the last 7 or 8 years. I thought that I had found the perfect drink to replace the diet coke with, Propel Fitness Water. Propel is great. I love the taste of it, but I didn't know that it has sucrolose in it. I still believe it is much better than diet coke for you, but I would love to have more information about the different types of sweetners that are dangerous. Is sucrolose, splenda, and aspartame the same thing? Are they all dangerous for you, and if they are, in what quantities? Also, how do you know what amounts of the sweetner are in different products? I would really like to know more detailed information about this because I really like the Propel Fitness Water. Please provide information if you have any. Thanks!

I just don't trust any water that comes with a warning label -_-

aspartame and sucralose are different sweetners.
This stuff you are reading on the net about Splenda being harmful is just a crock. Right along with all the other crap you read in emails. It is a way to spread hysteria. Check out this site http://www.sucralose.org/
and not one called holisticwhatever.com garbage ok?

WARNING! >Do NOT drink PROPEL Fitness Water!!
I tried this "Propel" for about 10 days... I started feeling like something was wrong with my body - not sick, but just not a NORMAL "well" feeling. It was a very strange weird sensation!
I had eaten or drank nothing else "new", different or odd during this period. I then examined the Propel label and in the middle of ingredients I found the odd word "sucralose". Did a check on Google and this is BAD stuff! (aka "Splenda"). I have always avoided Aspertame, Splenda, etc. (>Saccharin is the ONLY SAFE time-tested artificial sweetner!!) Had I known that "sucralose" was SPLENDA - I never would have bought or drank this stuff! - PLEASE BEWARE!!-

it is the best water i have ever tasted and me and my sis love lemons so theres no stoping us from liking it!!!!!!!!!!!

Um Bill look up "placebo effect"... btw propell is good and keeps me hydrated when I workout and I've been drinking it for 2 years and I never had propel related illnesses

My problem with propel water is why the heck do they claim that it is naturally flavored. Sucralose is by no means a natural flavor. That is deception in my own view. I have been drinking propel water for over a year and have always avoided any drinks that contain artificial sweeteners. I was horrified to find out that propel water contained sucralose!

Propel contains dangerous levels of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide.

This substance can easily kill you if you are submerged in it for as little as ten minutes.

Beware!

"...Splenda would have been given the inspections by the FDA (like those done on aspartame). Read your material Curtis!"

I would say that if you expect someone to tell you what is bad or not, thant the list will not come untill,... figure it out for your self.

This said, know that it is not because it sells it self on the marked that it is necessarly good for consomation, simply that it might have passe few "test" to say safe, if not abuse. Now what is abusive... again why would someone have even a small amount of "shit" even if it dosent "stink" so much. Rather not having it at all.

As the need for change, ... who says chage was good. Water is still and will remain the best drink to consume.

The conspiracy theory now... We have a problem, we must are runnig out of ressources, due to higly uncotrolloed consomation, whater will become undrinkable, air unbreathable at the sun unexposable all due to derivated pollution cause by our consomation. Bottom line we are too many consuming, there will be no more ressoureses left. So one of the solution would be to eliminate 90% or the population on earth. Buying time if you want my opionion, also quite stupid affirmation, but I heard this on a so "popular" radio show. Anyways if someone would have to do so, well put it this way, a more euhh,... diplomatic way to kill people would be to ask you first, now will you consume this, eventhaugh you know it might not be good for you,.. or you might not know much about it, but will you consume it anyways? If so, it will kill you, if not well good, you consume smarter, so that actualy you make your choice, as to do the right thing of not. In the end you are left with the Right people.

All of this to say those so called Agency,... inspectors on splenda, splenda might just be among other poison out on the market part or the "90% clear out" plan.

Clearly said, no propel, no soft dring, no cheing gum, no candies of any kind,... no mC Donalds or any restaurant.
Look eating if for your body to feel better, and
tast as nothing to do with it. It's a "luxury" to afforoad good tast. Not only pple afford great tast, but they mostly don't afforat to pay the price "do exercise!!!" Just eating and sitting while wathing tv, or litlte what ever.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/fg_rainbow-arc_en_ciel_ga_e.html
Simple all you need to eat is Basicly Fruit / Vedgetables. Now I don't expect any reply. Just think for you. Splenda is good tasting, right, but what do you know about it so far that may help you body to be in a better condition, is there anything you'ld no safer to do the job? Yes of course weater, and the best thing,.. it most country it's still Free!!! Why searching for new stuff as if it's any good when you allready know what is good for you. Listen to you!

PS: Plz no remark on Typos, Spelling as I typed this in a little hurry ( I should have take my time) and that englis is my sencondary language (should have studied more) bottome line you get the point ^^ that's all that matters then thx.

di-hydrogen monoxide ? that's water! what a funny person. anyway, i drink 5 propels every day and i feel like a million bucks. if you live your live looking for the bad things, then you'll probably miss the good ones.

Propel isn't really supposed to be an energy drink even if it's advertised as such. With only 30 cals per bottle, it doesn't give much energy for your body to work with, and digestion is drastically reduced during exercise anyway. What it does do is help maintain your hydration and more importantly your electrolyte balance, which is important for people who do intense workouts and lose sodium through their sweat. The vitamins are also helpful because if you are drinking a lot of water, your body can potentially lose some of those vitamins through urine.

Oh, and sucralose/splenda is just a chemically modified version of table sugar (sucrose) that your body doesn't absorb calories from. Years of testing have shown it to be safe, and not a cause of cancer. There could be some health risks involved with consistantly consuming it in excess for your lifespan, but nothing proven yet. Personally I wouldn't ingest a lot of it, but a bottle or two of Propel per day won't hurt, unless you also eat a lot of products sweetened with Splenda. The Acceptable Daily Intake is set at 5mg per kg of weight per day. Considering that the stuff is 600 times as sweet as sugar, that's a lot of splenda.

you guy r cool

you guy r cool

i drank propel for the first time, and my sister had warned me about getting a sore throat from it, and i thought she was joking, but after drinking just a few sips of it, i developed a sore throat. Not sure why, bit it was due to that drink.

"if you live your live looking for the bad things, then you'll probably miss the good ones."

What a quote. Very true. Very easy to understand and logical. Unfortunately it is also indirectly a paradox.

If you live your life looking for bad things, you will find bad things.
If you live your life looking for good things, you will find good things.

If you live your life carefree, ignorant of potential risks, unaware of whats actually going on, I pity you, for you will most likely die young and because of a decision you made based on what you knew ( or ... LACK thereof).

Although kurtis probably means well, I feel he should know that because we are discussing a potential hazard that has been scientifically proven to be related to fatal diseases, he should be careful of what he says.

anonymous was in no way looking for all the bad things and missing the good ones. he/she was simply presenting facts and telling you the truth.

Ignorance and small-minded-ness have no place in the minds of those who wish to learn, for you are not truly living if you are not aware.

I for one would much rather watch out for the bad things, learn from them and live than ignore the bad things, make a critical error because of it and suffer beyond all possible imagination.

I came to this site because my Mom told me Propel is bad and she can't believe me at 44 and my 16 year old drink the stuff. She said it causing anxiety, which I'm prone to, but I don't agree, I pretty much anxiety free. If I do have a spell I take a couple of deep breathes...walk the dog, or write.

I originally did it because I'm a huge water drinker and always have been, but I also was looking for a drink that would give something back, so I chose the flavors with calcium because it is the type that is easily absorbed.

I have never had any bad side effects, feelings from it. Every processed product and even some naturally grown have chemicals in them, so unless you are truly holistic in your eating/drinking, you are bound to get them.

Even tap water is not always that great, and most bottled waters, unfortunately come from the tap.

I'm not willing to spend $5 to get extra pure water from some spring in the Rockies or Glacier Lake because it probably is not from there and it is false advertising...just like there is no little pill, lotion or device that will make you smaller, larger, more buxom...you get the point.

We chose what we eat and drink and I try my best to enjoy the things I eat or drink and have discipline.

I'd rather know I'm drinking Propel, then Diet Mt. Dew, which is what I would be doing for something other than water. I actually do water down my Propel, it is a bit syrupy to me even though it has a small amount of artificial sweetener. I mix it with Vodka if I want a drink, or just drink it straight up.

In the end, I have felt better drinking Propel, but too much of anything is never good.

So use judgement people.

Unless, you are willing to grow your own fruits, veggies, grains and purify your own water then you may have a case. But, you will have to take lots of time (years) to accomplish this.

So, if Propel is the thing that kills me, which I doubt, or perhaps it will take a few hours off my life, so be it.

I eat, exercise and try to enjoy life and know that just what is in the air we breathe is a lot worst for all of us than a scary bottle of Propel.

Live life, stop worrying about the little things, and smile, you will be rewarded.

Cheryl

Something is up with this stuff.Everytime I try it I get terrible stomach discomfort.Others I have mentioned it to verified my experience.Beer and water for me

I have a sleeping disorder and this week has been tough. I am very tired all of the time. On the way back from a long day of travel for Christmas I had a couple of propel because I hadn't gotten my water in for the day. BOOM!! I was wide a wake and felt great! I did it again yesterday and had the same awesome results. I figured it was the B vitamins. Today I have been drinking it on and off all day and I feel very weird this evening and somewhat nauseated. That made me decide to check it on the website. I am trying to decide if it is the sleeping disorder or my new replacement for caffeine. I am not wide wake any more. Comments? I take a prenatal vitamin and vitamin B12 in pill form. Just looking for ways to survive until I get my treatment underway.

Yes toxins are everywhere.
Hard to avoid.
Splenda is not natural and nobody knows what long term effects this toxin will have in any amount.
Screw the FDA.
I never base any of my medical beliefs on the FDA research.
The world is bigger than just USA.
It's not about shaving a few years off of your life.
These toxins are called excitotoxins which over stimulate and burn out neuro cells.
They cause disability not death. Diseases like MS, ADHD, Parkinson's disease and so on.
As mammals, we are so out of our element. So away from nature. By avoiding these foods/products you will be able to have a body which is a bit more pure.

Which of you (above) are lobbying for the sugar industry??..................c'mon......................

Yeah - okay, anything in excess will kill you.

Can't drink any artificial sweetner. Gives me an instant migrane. And can't find any diet drink other than water that doesn't contain one.

ok, I wanted to appeal to all you Propel drinkers out there. I am in the St Louis, Mo area and can't seem to find PEACH flavor Propel anywhere. It's my favorite and I wonder if anyone has any suggestions where I can find PEACH, I'm running real low! ;-)

A friend of mine recommended Propel so I gave it a try. I drink Gatorade during my long distance runs, but thought maybe Propel would be nice for cardio in the gym. I'm not a soda drinker, so it seemed very sweet to me. I experienced the stomach discomfort other people have mentioned here. Stomach discomfort is the nice way of putting it. Honestly, I was very gassy and went to the bathroom a lot. Then I noticed after I had a bottle my heart would race off and on. At first I did not realize my stomach upset and heart flutters were due to drinking Propel. I found out almost by accident; I was researching another health topic online and came across a site that listed adverse reactions to sucralose. Many of them matched mine to a tee! I was shocked, I had no idea that a sweetener could do that. Some people are sensitive to chemically engineered sugars like sucralose I happen to be one of them. So I would say err on the side of caution and drink plain water!

yo, propel is gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood..... penis

WARNING TO THOSE THAT DRINK PROPEL I drank Propel everyday, 4-6 bottles a day since the product came out. By doing so, the vitamin levels caused nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal pain, kidney spasms and I spent 500 dollars on medical tests before I realized the Propel was slowly poisoning me. The pains were unbearable. I stopped drinking it and began drinking regular bottled water and in 1 day, the pains have mostly subsided. If you look up the vitamin content in propel and read the side-effects caused by overusing those vitamins you would realize it is a dangerous drink when consumed in high amounts. Also, those amounts build in your system, causing it to reject the water and slowly over months you can develop even kidney failure. Drink at your own risk!

Brandyn
Are you an idiot? You retarded bastard...

If you have a problem with sucralose (Splenda) you need to talk to me - I've done years of research on this topic.

If you are looking for an artifical sweetener, use sucralose. It is the only good one. Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet) is the worst. There are sites dedicated to discussing how it was never supposed to be approved for selling and consumption. There is a doctor who created a whole aspartame detox program.

Splenda is not a neurtoxin, and there is no carcinogen related data on it, which ALL of the other artificial sweeteners have. If you are drinking any other art. sweetener thinking it's better than sucralose, well, I'll pray for you that you don't get cancer, and in aspartame's case, many other severe neuro disorders.

The only way that another sweetener would be 'technically' better for you is if you were specifically intolerant to Splenda. In that case, use real sugar, a trusted natural sweetener, or sacarrin. Under no circumstances should you need to use aspartame ... no one wants cancer.

Ok, where on the bottle does it say it contains sucralose?? The only sweetener I see on the bottle is Sucrose which is real sugar. Sucralose is chemically created from Sucrose but a completely different compound.

Personally I think there is a lot of paranoia going on here over nothing as Sucralose is not even in the drink. It's Sucrose which is a liquid form of real sugar. Please read and do your research before becoming paranoid.

I apologize, I read again and it is a minor ingredient at the bottom. Still I don't think its something to be paranoid about.

"Personally I wouldn't ingest a lot of it, but a bottle or two of Propel per day won't hurt, unless you also eat a lot of products sweetened with Splenda. The Acceptable Daily Intake is set at 5mg per kg of weight per day. Considering that the stuff is 600 times as sweet as sugar, that's a lot of splenda."

Because sucralose is so much sweeter than normal sugar, it is usually mixed with other crap to dilute its sweetness--and in the case of Splenda, to give it enough volume to resemble sugar because it's impractical for a consumer to measure out 1/600 of a serving of sugar. What other crap is mixed with it? I'm not sure, but if there are no calories in Splenda, then it is probably chemicals or some non-nutritive substance.

IMO, people who ingest artificial sweetners as a means to lose/maintain weight may as well be diagnosed with pica.

It's a shame that we as a whole are more concerned with taste than substance. We all know this to be true and that's why corporations can stick these non-nutritive chemicals into our food and still make a profit selling it to us. It's also unethical when they start to advertise these chemicals as "smart choices" for your diet when really they are ignorant choices that we don't know to be healthy or unhealthy.

The longer this situation is a permitted to exist, the harder it will become to find truly healthy alternatives. So please stop buying crap with artificial sweetners so that I can actually find something good for me on the shelves at my grocery store and not have to pay outrageous prices for it because the healthy products don't benefit from economies of scale due to a lack of demand.

Drink propel at your own risk! A wise statment but that is all to general. Drink, eat, hump, live at your own RISk! Of course if u drink MORE THAN the suggested serving size you obviously will feel a bit diffrent, maybe even sick.

Don't be a dip s**t and drink 4-5 a DAY!

The day they make PROPEL Fitness water in a Gallon jug then that is the day u can complain u get a sick or something from drinking to much. Even then I dought 95% of people can drink the whole gallon and go on with there day w/o a problem.

If u really wanna be that picky about a few Milligrams of fake sugar then thats your choice. GO BUY SOME NORMAL SPRING WATER AND STFU...pls?

The thing that kills me about "energy" drinks is that they in no way contain energy as we know it to be (looking at the chemistry). It's a proven fact that a vitamin has no calories and therefore can't give us energy. People daily ingest these special waters that contain a copious amount of unnecessary vitamins that are not regulated. If we all tried drinking real water, with real minerals, then we would be doing a lot better for ourselves. Many of these waters are in fact owned by Pepsi or Coke or other such companies that do not produce "healthy" beverages. Our society is buying in to all the gimmicks and drinking between 1-5 of these "waters" a day can build up in your system and a) stop absorption of vitamins and b) cause long-term damage. I realize that some of you pose the argument of living life enjoying whatever but if we promote such things as chemically induced water, that has been denatured and placed in plastic made from petroleum (aka, crude oil), than our children and childrens children, or cousins, or who ever will be living in a world where spring water has been forgotten. Our bodies are our temples and until we stop giving up our rights to be healthy to the big corporations who don't care about our health, and place a dollar on it - we will always be trying to find the "new fix". To be a consumer, is to be a statistic--remember to the beverage company you are a mere fraction of a digit in their bank account. Think for yourself, research, and drink regular WATER!! :):) p.s the idea of B vitamins helping to relieve stress is a joke…and by no means do we need 150% of them in one bottle of water….don’t believe, look it up…and somewhere besides google.

I drank one bottle of it last night, and it made me sick. I thought I had a fever, but I didn't. It feels like a flu of sometype, and my kidney's hurt. I have a headache as well.

I feel poisoned, I never drink energy drinks and won't again.

All in all it sucks.

I am currently on the Atkins diet. Been on it for almost two weeks and lost 10 lbs so far. And I'm already in good shape, just trying to get ripped in the ab area. Drinking nothing but water for two weeks. Nothing but water. Then I tried a Propel and within the hour my stomach was rumbling horribly, something that I hadn't felt in two weeks. I like not having a painful rumble, you know? So anyway, thinking it was a fluke I drank another one the next day (because they taste great) and pretty soon stomach rumblings for hours! What gives? Is Splenda tricking my body? ALl I know is, I will just drink water while on this diet because it is natural and doesn't trick my body into thinking something super sugary is on it's way.

i drank lemon propel and some mixed berry calcium propel at first my heart was racing and then i had diarreha for 4 days just drink regular water ppl

As my friend said recently, Basically, if it's not made naturally, then it's probably not safe.

Okay, here is my question. Ever had problems with mold in your propel bottle? A friend of mine had this happen yesterday. She wasn't sure what the 'mucas' looking stuff was floating in the bottle. She didn't notice it until she had already drank half of the bottle. She called the makers of propel and they told her that is was mold. They were aware of the problem and said that this happens when the bottle has not been secured tightly (it was a brand new bottle). She went home last night and looked at the other bottles that she had purchased, and every one of them had the same substance floating inside the bottle. Needless to say, she called the manufacturer back and they said that they would send her some 'free coupons' for her trouble. If you are getting nauseated when drinking propel, check the bottle.

GUESS WHAT - FACT: I drank a bottle of Propel and my head exploded my arms dropped off my body, my feet shrank to the size of grapes and all I have left are my fingers to type this email - you paranoid freaks are moronic!!!!

hey look outside the sky is falling - everyone RUN!!!!!

i simply would like to know if propel has caffene in it??? can you let me know??? joan p.s. Splenda IS sugar....

Joan, get ready for this! Splenda, as reported in the Dec. '07 edition of "Taste for Life", is a synthesized chemical. Splenda started as a molecule of sugar, three hydroxyl groups (atoms composed of hydrogen and oxygen) are selectively removed and replaced with three atoms of chlorine. Yummy! Happy drinking! Water, un-sweetened is the appropriate beverage, just watch out for the chlorine!

Donna, I just did the same thing...drank half a bottle of that propel with the mucas in it until i almost puked because of the taste. I thought it was like water since they call it fitness water so i kept an open bottle in my fridge and it was 4am and wanted a drink...didn't even know it had that stuff til i turned a light on and it gagged me. Maybe that mold will make me feel like i'm on acid or something...anyways it was disgusting so I had to look it up on here!

woops I meant Lyn...didn't know the name was below

Propel Fitness water is a fine drink, not to be substituted for water (H20) by any means. Yes, it does have some sweeteners in it but the levels of these sweeteners or so low that you would literly have to drink 2 gallons of this product a day to get any bad results from it. This drink actually refuels your body with vitamins that our essential when you are working out, and also includes B - vitamins , which have been known to aid in weight loss aka matabolism speed.

**I AM NOT A DOCTOR, AND ANYTHING I SAY IS AN OPINION, AND SHOULD ONLY BE TAKEN AS AN OPINION.**

Just wanted to add a comment for the non propel drinkers. So what do you drink besides propel? Water? Do you know whats in your water? Where I live we have something called "radium" in our water.
http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/factsheets/radium.htm
Check it out , yummy stuff. I bet that few of you know whats in your drinking water. Don't think bottled water is safe either because most of the time it is the same thing.
CHALLENGE TO ALL NON PROPEL DRINKERS.......GO FIND OUT WHAT IS IN THE WATER YOU ARE DRINKING!!!!
Bet you would rather drink Propel. D*p S*^ts! LOL...

Thanks for posting comments on Propel and mold!
My daughter had this mucus like substance in
her Propel last night. It was after hours so
I could not reach customer service. I was
so concerned about what this was and if it
would hurt her in any way. I called today and
they gave me the same info. Will send coupons.
Like I will buy the stuff again!

I am wondering if people are drinking Propel for a fitness drink before during and after exercising or are they just drinking it to be drinking something for thirst in everyday life. Propel is good for when you work out to replenish your body for dehydration. Seams to me if you don't like the taste of plain water add a lemon slice or orange slice to the water and take a multi-vitamin for better results and no worries.

Propel is meant to be a drink for an individual who is very active in excersising or working out. After a person works out their body starts to release cortisol which is a hormone that is catabolic(it eats muscle). In order to curb this you need a fast digest simple carb thats going to cause an insulin spike to curb the cortisol..this is where sugar is helpful. Propel is a drink that can help this. I either drink Propel or use the powder gatorade.

The everyday person can drink this without a problem but since they are not using it for it's true purpose than they should drink it in moderation. 5 Propels a day is not necessary and not even a person who is active needs that many.

Check what you are drinking in your tap water people you would be sick