Our Story ❤️
Why are we here to help you?
The Faces Behind Revive
Gustavo Carvalho
- Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process and Products
- Competes in Powerlifting
- Brazilian
- Loves Doce de Leite 🍮
Miriam Matsson
- Enrolled in a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering
- Graphic Designer and Marketing
- Norwegian
- Loves Penguins 🐧
The Heart Behind Revive
Chapter 1
The Recovery Quest
Hi, I'm Gustavo. Pleasure to meet you. You might be asking yourself how I got here? Imagine the awkward kid, turning powerlifter. That's me. I rarely drink, but when I do, oh boy, let's just say Dionysus himself is taking notes.
As a professional powerlifter, skipping training was never an option. Therefore, I need to recover, and quickly. If I want to go out at night and still crush the weights in the gym the next day, I need a good solution, something more effective than just drowning myself in caffeine.
Being a biochemistry entusiast, and chemical engineer, I quickly realized the main reason behind hangovers and fatigue wasn't just questionable life choices, it was dehydration. That's when I started experimenting. And soon, I learned that what I needed wasn't another oversized energy drink.
I needed electrolytes!
CHAPTER 2
The Big Deception
With a dream of a professional production, my quest to find a ready-to-drink hydration solution began. Like everyone else, I grabbed all the trendy sports drinks off the shelves.
🚨 The problem? They were either loaded with sugar or, if sugar-free, barely contained electrolytes. They were fine for a light jog - but not for recovering from a proper night out.
Disappointed, I took matters into my own hands.
I started mixing sodium, potassium, and magnesium powders at home - I literally felt like Walter White, without the cancer part. And guess what? It worked like magic.
CHAPTER 3
The Click Moment
For a while, I stuck to making my own hydration mix and preached its benefits to my friends.
Then, in 2022, I moved into Teknobyen - a student building with 116 students sharing one kitchen (chaos sometimes, but let's not get into that).
Every weekend, I saw the signs:
🕶️ Sunglasses indoors
😵Expressions of pain
☕ People barely holding onto their coffee cups
I started telling people to hydrate properly before and after drinking using electrolytes. And it worked - not a miracle cure of course, but close enough.
That’s when it clicked:
💡 Why not create the drink I had always wanted?
✅ Something easy
✅ Something effective
✅ Something actually good for recovery
CHAPTER 4