Iskiate · chia · lime · salt

The original runner's fuel.

For centuries, the greatest endurance runners on earth have run hundred-mile days on a simple drink: ground chia, lime, and water. It has a name: iskiate. Nobody sells it. So we're making it.

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The story

In the Copper Canyons of northern Mexico, the Rarámuri have always run distances that shouldn't be possible, fueled by chia seeds stirred into lime water. Most runners have heard some version of that story. Then everyone went back to neon powders and dextrose.

We kept thinking about the chia. It turns out the old recipe holds up: omega-3s, fiber, minerals, steady energy. Real food you can drink. It just needed one fix the canyon runners never had a mill for: grinding the seed, so your body can actually get at what's inside.

What's in it

Four things. You can pronounce all of them.

One sachet into 500 ml of cold water. Shake, wait three minutes, shake again, drink.

01

Milled chia

2,600 mg ALA omega-3 and 5 g of fiber per serving. Milled matters: cracked open, the seed's oils actually absorb. Whole seeds mostly pass through.

02

Tart cherry

The post-race staple of endurance athletes, at a real dose, not a dusting. Also: it's what makes it taste this good.

03

Electrolytes

Sodium, potassium, and magnesium: replacing what you actually lose in sweat, in the amounts sweat actually loses.

04

Lime

Real lime, like the original. Tart, cold, and nothing like a sports drink, in the way you want.

Nothing else. No dyes, no dextrose, no "proprietary blend," no 74 mystery ingredients.

What we won't tell you
We won't tell you this makes you faster. The research says chia matched a sports drink, with half the sugar. We think real food, honestly described, is enough.

That's the whole pitch. The best-selling "chia" hydration mix in running doesn't contain any chia. Read the label sometime. Ours is nothing but.

Made by runners, in Oregon

Small batches. Real doses. Tested, every lot.

We're runners in Portland making this in small batches, and we do it the careful way: every lot of chia is tested for heavy metals before it goes in a pouch, doses match the published research, and the label says exactly what's inside, because a recipe this old deserves to be done right.

First batch

It's in the kitchen right now.

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