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Re: RC: Re: Overdosing Potassium (was Susan Garlinghouse at Convention)



It is my understanding that at the 99 Pan Am blood was pulled on the horses
pulled metabolic reasons and all showed deficient levels of potassium. At rides
where I have personally participated in studies the results always showed horses
that failed to complete had lower potassium levels on the average than those
that did.

Truman

Susan Garlinghouse wrote:

> >See above.  In the absence of sufficient supply from either food sources or
> elytes, a severely potassium-depleted endurance horse is a horse on the
> ground.  Probably the major factor in alot of the metabolic problems back
> East, from what Truman has told me over the years.
>
> > It is my understanding that electrolyte formulas are scientifically
> arrived at.  Can
> > somebody explain the science of this to me?
>
> The elyte mixes replace the elytes in the same proportion they're lost by
> exercising endurance horses, who sweat differently than horses in other
> disciplines.  Plus, they add a glucose source, because sodium and chloride
> don't get absorbed in the absence of glucose and you can't necessarily count
> on glucose being present in the gut from food sources.  There's some pretty
> good research existing now having to do with elytes in endurance horses,
> most of it from Art, Gayles and Michael Lindinger's work.  KER has done some
> work in developing EnduraMax as well.
>
> Susan G
>

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