• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Electrolytes are electrolytes. Your horse gets a fuck ton more salt and no sugar, but it’s basically all the same shit at similar ratios. The electrolyte compounds all need to be bioavailable so there shouldn’t be major differences there. The biggest difference is likely purity and contamination tolerances. (Contamination would be things like insects, small rocks or sand, etc: Things that would still be non-toxic, but generally reduced for human consumption.)

    Edit: Still don’t drink the stuff. The ingredients are scaled for an ~1100lb animal so it should be a no-brainer to get the Gatorade instead.

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      17 days ago

      mixing a bit of table salt and sugar in a glass of water will do pretty much the same thing and cost less than both of those.

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        17 days ago

        As a horse electrolyte salesman I strongly condemn the idea that people can be healthy without corporate intervention.