Originally published at: Is it safe to horsemaxx with horse electrolytes? - Boing Boing
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I say “Neigh! Neigh to all of this horseshit! Neigh!”
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And I bet the same people who are trying this out didn’t trust the covid vaccine.
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Electrolytes ForTheWhinny!
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“Oh yeah? Well, Gatorade is formulated for alligators. It’s right there in the name, dummy! I ain’t puttin’ no reptile juice in my body, at least a horse is a mammal.”
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silly me: “!ud horsemaxxing” (that’s duckduck search of urban dictionary) and:
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therefore it is guilt-edged required of kindly ol Doc Beschizza to get on urban dictionary and define it. (“Replacing food and medicines certified for human consumption with cheaper/bulk items packaged for horses and/or other quadrupeds, including honey badgers”)
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It’s the same people who took the horse de-wormer.
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It is so much worse than that. Gatorade was formulated based on the sweat collected from the Florida Gators football players. So, there is that!
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Doesn’t “glowing skin” really just mean that you’re kinda sweaty?
Eyy, that’s everyone’s favorite “organic” pestfungicide.
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Are some of those ingredients really far down the list in terms of concentration; or do horses need way more cobalt and manganese than I would have expected from an organism that isn’t some kind of esoteric extremophile that’s too cool for off-the-shelf enzymes?
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Gatorade isn’t exactly a health beverage either. Yes, athletes use it to hydrate in between periods of high physical exertion, but it’s the exercise that provides the health benefit and not the salty, sugary beverage.
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I use horse shampoo/conditioner. I think I’m horsemaxxing and I didn’t even know it!
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It’s honestly surprising that “horsemaxxing” isn’t already a thing; given the expansive overlap between the growth-optimization side of veterinary medicine and the more covert areas of sports medicine.
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And the highly lucrative trade in racehorse sperm.
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…until they catch you collecting it.
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Seems like sound theory according to my medical practitioner…
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The top image is the label; the full size version is legible, It says the stuff has minima of 300 parts per million of manganese, 40 parts per million of zinc, 100 ppm iron, 10 ppm copper, and .3 ppm cobalt. (The bottle of human multivitamins I have handy has 2.3 milligrams of manganese, but no cobalt.)
Horses use manganese to make chondroitin sulfate, and require 400-500 mg/day. Manganese for Horses – Uses, Signs of Deficiency & Requirements – Equine Nutrition | Mad Barn USA
Horses do indeed have a micronutrient requirement for cobalt. They’re hindgut fermenters, and the bacteria in their hindguts need cobalt to make vitamin B12. Poking around, I’m getting the impression it’s unlikely for a horse’s diet to be cobalt deficient but not have a bigger problem with it that will manifest first–but still. Hoof Nutrition Intelligence: What role does cobalt play in equine nutrition?
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Day 4: The “why the long face” jokes are starting to get old.
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Horsey hoof stuff is great for human fingernails. Grooms who frequently use it on horses have tough fingernails that don’t crack and split.
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