I’m a fan of “Arbeitsschutzgetränk” (literally “work safety drink”).
It’s the stuff workers in steel mills get, to prevent dehydration when working close to the furnace.
They need to drink 2 gallons of that per day, during their entire working life. So I trust that it’s formulated right.
approved by the German metal-workers Union 👍
So, obviously that’s crazy and we’re all here to dunk on this person.
But also, I want everyone to know that Gatorade sells their product as a powder as well. One container of powder makes something like 24 bottles of Gatorade. It’s super cheap, and way more environmentally friendly. Thank you for your attention
Gatorade isn’t actually a good source of electrolytes though.
It’s sugar and pinch of salt.
However! There’s totally good electrolyte powders that are packed with the goods, and they’re not much pricier.
Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn’t have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?
If you’re super dehydrated while drinking a fuckload of water, stick some of them under your tongue
Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn’t have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?
Probably you’re referring to tartaric acid, potassium bitartrate. It’s added to candy to stabilize invert sugars, keeping them from crystallizing. You can buy it in powder form, usually called cream of tartar.
I don’t know what it does for hydration, but I suppose it would help top up potassium levels.
The memory of the medics explaining it to me is a little hazy, due to the heat injury. Something about potassium ion channels?
I’m a mechanic, not a medic, so I haven’t the knowledge base to know what that means, I just recall them saying things like sour patch kids are basically magic, because they do a thing the vast majority of electrolyte stuffs don’t
Purchase a huge swath of wetlands. Start cutting down all the trees and filling in the swampy bits. Once there is a credible threat to the existence of the alligators, start a campaign to save the wilderness and undo the damage. Allow people to donate money by purchasing “Gator-Aid” packages for $100 a shot. Steal the money and run.
Everybody is just walking straight past the fact that capitalism has cucked us all badly enough that we’re discussing the merits of drinking livestock products to save a few bucks?
You know several people did actually do and die from the “Tide challenge”…
That was basically because you could die from pretending to do it. The challenge was to eat a laundry pod. That’s really obviously not safe, but biting a laundry pod and spitting it out after pretending to swallow and die for the camera seemed like a reasonable way to freak people out while skipping the dangerous part to a handful of teenagers. The biting step was the real dangerous one, though, as concentrated laundry detergent can corrode tongues and throats and windpipes really quickly, and you’d lose the capacity to decide what to swallow, what to inhale, and what to hold in your mouth and spit out within seconds. This kills the teenager. The news generally reported this as Teenager dies attempting Tide Pod Challenge instead of Teenager dies attempting to fake Tide Pod Challenge, which didn’t tell teenagers it wasn’t safe to pretend to do, but did make pretending to do it seem like a better prank, so overall only made it more tempting.
Using horse dewormer topically is a popular home treatment for rosacea because it has the same active ingredient as a prescription cream (Soolantra), but the cream is ~$700/mo.
There are so many frugal “life-hacks” that involve a trip to your local feed store.
Yep - that’d fall squarely into the discussing the merits of drinking livestock products to save a few bucks bucket. Thanks for volunteering to demonstrate my point.
I just nab one of these bad boys every few years. Don’t fall for big-electrolyte’s propaganda
Horse paste is good against covid, horse electrolytes are good against hangovers, what else is the horse industry hiding? Oh yeah, apparently horse tranquilizers whip ass too.
I’ve read somewhere that horse mats made out of rubber are pretty good flooring for home gyms and cheaper than something marketed towards gym use.
If it can take the full weight of a horse standing on it with its small hoofs, then it should have no issues with any weight you might drop on them during lifting.
Speaking of animal shampoo, me and the wife rescued some pups and they had issues…
Too young for flea/tick shampoo, but we found a hippy organic shampoo that just smelled like the best of the fall season. Took care of the fleas/ticks, and we kept it around for general dog bathing for the smell. It was amazing, lol.
