My two biggest skepticisms with taking horse electrolytes:
I would be suspicious of the quality and food-safety (ie., cleanliness) of the product. I have seen leaked videos of feed for animals being full of discarded plastic products. Products for them do tend to be of lower quality.
These ingredients are all just mixed together right? If it’s formulated for a horse, you’re not realistically going to be able to find an ideal dose for yourself because the ratios of ingredients are already set, and they’re not going to match human daily values. To get a safe dose you would have to keep it low enough to ensure none of the ingredients are approaching toxic limits, by which point you’re probably getting negligible amounts of the other ingredients.
Just why? In general you are best off getting your nutrients from food, real, whole food. The only two ingredients I see there that I tend to “supplement” is sodium and potassium - sodium as iodized salt because iodine is hard to get through diet alone; and potassium because mixing a 50/50 or even 75/25 ratio of potassium to salt is a good way to balance out the hypertensive and artery hardening properties of sodium with an electrolyte that reduces blood pressure, as well as being a convenient way to get potassium. Neither of those things are very expensive.
My two biggest skepticisms with taking horse electrolytes:
I would be suspicious of the quality and food-safety (ie., cleanliness) of the product. I have seen leaked videos of feed for animals being full of discarded plastic products. Products for them do tend to be of lower quality.
These ingredients are all just mixed together right? If it’s formulated for a horse, you’re not realistically going to be able to find an ideal dose for yourself because the ratios of ingredients are already set, and they’re not going to match human daily values. To get a safe dose you would have to keep it low enough to ensure none of the ingredients are approaching toxic limits, by which point you’re probably getting negligible amounts of the other ingredients.
Just why? In general you are best off getting your nutrients from food, real, whole food. The only two ingredients I see there that I tend to “supplement” is sodium and potassium - sodium as iodized salt because iodine is hard to get through diet alone; and potassium because mixing a 50/50 or even 75/25 ratio of potassium to salt is a good way to balance out the hypertensive and artery hardening properties of sodium with an electrolyte that reduces blood pressure, as well as being a convenient way to get potassium. Neither of those things are very expensive.