pixx on Nostr: Depends on the _why_. The tl;dr is "for daily usage, just eat a potato and put a bit ...

Depends on the _why_. The tl;dr is "for daily usage, just eat a potato and put a bit of salt on it; for sweat losses, a generic liquidiv, specifically _not_ the name brand, is what I'd recommend. I'm not yet aware of any that is good for daily intake, they're all selling marketing more than health, but for sweat losses liquidIV is actually pretty good. But even the generic ones are overpriced, and they're all chemically identical, so at least save a buck and reward _less_ exploitation."

going to rant a bit, but on a daily basis, potassium intake should _exceed_ sodium intake. I'm not aware of any commercial mixes that meet this standard.

A single medium-sized potato, salted, is a better daily target than any of these things. 1 potato has nearly 1g of potassium; none of the mixes I'm aware of come close, and generally potassium is the one most people are really short of, not sodium. It's _easy_ to get a potassium deficiency, it's _hard_ to get a sodium one. And, since I don't think I emphasized this before, "people should have more sodium" is only really true in the context of activity.

The sports mixes tend to have... okay they have their BS too, but they _also_ have a lot of very good ones, because there's a lot of financial incentive behind it, and a lot of people in sports science know what they're talking about and avoid the bullshit. So, for sweat replenishment etc, there's a _lot_ of good options, each of which would be found useful by someone in different circumstances (because they have someone looking at their personal health, diet, activity, ...)

The rest of the market is feel-good bullshit aimed at people who want to feel like they're improving health without actually making any dietary or activity changes. LiquidIV is the least bad, in that it actually _works_, but it's _too weak_ for people who actually need to use it regularly - it's "scientifically grounded but optimized for palatibility, not effect," is how I'd put it.

So if the goal is sweat replenishment: yeah, liquidIV is good. More like "good enough", I'd say, actually. It's the bare minimum to work while still aiming at people who don't actually need it. Personally I'd go generic, because they're basically chemically identical (maybe the 'natural flavors' are different, can't tell), and they're _both_ charging well over 100% margins. (A packet of liquidIV should have a material cost of like a nickel _on the retail market_. When you're wholesaling it, that should go down even more. They would probably be profitable if they cut their prices by 75%. As a matter of principle, I buy the generic ones in cases like this.)

If the goal is just day to day usage, literally none of the ones I'm aware of are even worth it. My conclusion when I first looked into it was basically "okay just eat more potatoes and up salt intake, that works."