Electrolytes are everywhere now: drinks, powders, gummies, even gas station coolers. The marketing makes it sound like everyone needs them all the time. We’d rather give you the honest version.
What are electrolytes?
Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electrical charge in your body, including sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and chloride. They help your body manage fluid balance, nerve signals, and muscle function.
When you sweat, you lose water and electrolytes. Sodium is the main one you lose in meaningful amounts, which is why it gets the most attention in hydration research. Sweat contains much less potassium.
Do you actually need an electrolyte powder?
Often, no. For a typical workout of about an hour or less in comfortable conditions, water and a normal diet usually cover it. Your meals already supply sodium and other minerals.
An electrolyte powder starts to make sense when you’re losing more than usual:
- Long sessions: Workouts or events lasting well over an hour.
- Heat and humidity: Summer training, outdoor work, or hot gyms. Nebraska summers count.
- Heavy sweaters: If you finish with salt streaks on your clothes or skin, you may lose more sodium than most.
- Multiple sessions in a day: Two-a-days, tournaments, and back-to-back events.
- Low-carb or low-sodium eating: If you eat very little salt overall, you may have less to draw on.
Try this: a quick sweat check
Sports medicine guidance suggests the goal during exercise is to avoid losing much more than about 2% of your body weight in fluid. You can get a rough idea of your own sweat rate by weighing yourself before and after a workout. A big drop means you’re losing a lot of fluid, and a good reason to plan ahead. Sweat rates vary a lot from person to person, so your numbers may differ from your training partner’s.
More isn’t better
Drinking far more than you need, especially large amounts of plain water over long efforts, can dilute your body’s sodium. That’s rare, but it’s serious. The takeaway is to drink to your needs, not to a number someone online told you.
How to use ours
- Mix 1 scoop (6.5 g) with 10–16 oz of cold water.
- Use it during or after training, on hot days, or whenever you’ve sweated more than usual.
- Each tub has 40 servings, which works out to about 80 cents a serving.
- Use it as part of your hydration, not instead of it. Keep drinking water, eating well, and sleeping enough.
What’s in it
Each scoop has 500 mg of sodium and 340 mg of potassium, plus magnesium and calcium, so you get the full set of electrolytes your body uses. We use Pink Himalayan salt and keep the sodium-to-potassium ratio balanced.
There’s also 1,000 mg of real fruit powder for flavor (strawberry or lemon lime) and a full daily value of vitamin C. It’s sugar-free and keto-friendly, sweetened only with monk fruit and stevia, with no artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners.
Like everything we make, it’s manufactured in the USA by an NSF-certified cGMP manufacturing partner, with the full ingredient list on the label.
Check with your doctor first if you have high blood pressure, kidney or heart conditions, or have been told to limit sodium or potassium. With 500 mg of sodium per scoop, this is worth a conversation. The same goes if you’re pregnant, nursing, or taking medication.
The bottom line
Electrolytes aren’t magic, and you don’t need them for every workout. They’re a useful tool for the days you sweat a lot, and we’ve kept ours simple so they fit your routine.
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.