At the heart of our company is our founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Shawn Stasko. With a Ph.D. in Physiology from the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, Shawn blurs the line between expert and student. He loves to solve puzzles not for the finished product, but the journey it took to get there.

Often referred to as "doc", Shawn lives and breathes the subject of hydration, at the highest level. From product formulations tailored to the world's elite athlete to professional heat stress assessment of the most challenging workplace conditions, Shawn is the glue that keeps us together. So how did his educational background contribute to our hydration system? And to his process in general? 

Shawn is the type of founder who doesn't take 'no' for an answer. He digs in when others say it cannot be done and finds possible. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty - in fact he prefers it. 

What's your history in sports?
Growing up I played baseball, very competitively. I earned a spot on the little league All-California regional team where I manned short stop and second base. In high school my primary sport was track and field where I specialized in the sprint and jump events. I continued running at a collegiate level my freshman year of college, but when I tore a hamstring, I decided to put athletics on hold and focus more on my education. Thankfully with resistance training and physical therapy, I started running post-injury and was gradually became fond of the longer distances. Now I enjoy all types of activities, from trail running to road cycling, sprinkled in with some high intensity resistance training of course.

I earned my Bachelors of Science in Sports Biology from Springfield College, where I concentrated in Sports Nutrition and Kinesiology. At Springfield I was immersed in the athletic culture and was able to study how an athlete's body can be tuned with nutrition and training to improve their sport-specific performance. I wanted to dive deeper into this art still, so I moved onto the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where I earned a Ph.D. in Physiology. At Kentucky, their Center for Muscle Biology put some of the world leaders who study muscular fatigue, adaptation, and growth right at my fingertips. My doctoral studies focused primarily on skeletal muscle and the redox mechanisms behind weakness and fatigue. My education has yet to stop as now I learn from each athlete I work with on how we fine tune their nutrition in concert with sport-specific training to push their boundaries of human performance.