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Lived experience
Real-world frustration keeps the company focused on solutions people can actually prepare, understand and use.
Company & People
Meet Us
Best Hydrate brings together lived experience, health care, nutrition science and performance around one practical question: how can oral hydration be made more useful, understandable and accessible?
Science-informedWe use established hydration physiology and emerging research to guide how we explain and develop the product.
Practically mindedThe company began with a real hydration problem, so usability and everyday implementation matter alongside theory.
Built in AlbertaBest Hydrate is an Edmonton-area company connecting local health, academic and performance communities with broader hydration applications.
Why this team exists
A practical hydration problem became a science-first company
Best Hydrate began after a serious personal health experience changed how founder Austin Swiniarski thought about hydration. What started as a practical search for a better oral hydration routine developed into a broader effort to understand the physiology, ingredients and real-world contexts that make hydration useful.
That origin now sits beside health-care experience, academic nutrition science and performance perspectives. The point is not to make one background dominate the others. It is to keep product development connected to the people who use hydration strategies in ordinary life, sport, research and health-care settings.
How we work
Separate what is known, what is plausible and what still needs evidence
Hydration marketing often collapses those categories together. We are building the opposite habit. Basic physiology should be explained accurately, product-specific claims should stay within evidence and authorization, and research questions should remain labelled as research questions until results exist.
That discipline is why the public site now separates hydration science, formula rationale, current research, clinical development and application pages instead of treating them as interchangeable proof.
Explore Research & Impact →What we bring together
Four perspectives, one hydration problem
Health care
Clinical experience keeps safety, patient context and the limits of generalized advice visible.
Nutrition science
Physiology and ingredient rationale are separated from slogans so mechanisms can be explained without overclaiming.
Performance
Athlete and coaching contexts test whether hydration plans remain practical when heat, sweat, travel and competition complicate the day.
Meet the people below
Different backgrounds, shared standards
The team profiles below show the people currently represented publicly on Best Hydrate. The broader company story and operating values live on their own pages so this page can stay focused on people and perspective.
More context
A company still being built in public
Best Hydrate is an early-stage company with a science-first ambition and a lot still ahead of us. Our story is not finished, and this page will keep growing as the team, research, partnerships and real-world work develop.
Thank you for being patient with the rough edges that come with a startup. We would rather show genuine progress than manufacture the appearance of a much older company.
People Behind Best Hydrate
Three perspectives represented publicly today: nutrition science, founder-led product development and nursing experience.
Dr. Spencer Proctor
Professor & Department Chair, University of Alberta
Nutritional scientist, athlete and coach contributing scientific perspective across performance, nutrition and hydration research.
Austin Swiniarski
Founder, CEO
Founder and Power Engineer who began developing Best Hydrate after a serious health experience reshaped how he viewed hydration, product design and practical access.
Simone
Co-Founder, Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse bringing long-standing research and management experience to practical hydration, health communication and company development.
