Can I get a summary?

Not for trust reasons but just morbid curiosity. There's obviously a reason why we don't eat this stuff. I want to know how bad it gets.

Someone already linked it, and amazingly the horse electrolytes weren't even the worst thing going on with that guy.

besausemits

Ah yes, those are the best kind of sauce mits

It has children's fingers?

Then they get you hooked on paste for the Hanta.

The recipe for oral rehydration solution, the Gatorade base, is 1 liter water, 1/2 tsp salt, and 2T sugar. Shake to mix.

You can add OJ, lemon and/or lime juice, kool-aid powder, mio, crystal light, etc. for flavor.

The Italian version is sparkling water, juice of a lemon slice, and big dash of salt.

Yeah, just a bit of table salt! Magnesium, potassium, calcium? Never heard of 'em!

Someone’s always figured out a “better way” than y’know, actual scientists. Always some bizarre conspiracy over why they’re “hiding” the real better way to do something.

...we don't do that here

Also, this stuff is made for horses. Their entire body and nutricial needs are completely different. I for example often have a calcium and vitamin D shortage so I need to take supplements next to my healthy diet. But the amounts I need are completely different to what a horse needs. Too much vitamin D is toxic, too much calcium brittle your bones. I can take paracetamol, so can donkeys, but cats would die from it. Taking supplements that are made for animals can be toxic and can be way to high dosages. Like with this guy, who has a tingling skin because of it, and probably causes damage to his kidneys and or liver, among other organs.

OK it was what I expected.

TLDR; the "horse" part of this wasn't really the problem other than that it's easier to purchase an unhinged quantity at a veterinary supply store. If he was reconstituting to the proper strength (being sober would have helped with that) the electrolytes themselves wouldn't have been an issue (and honestly are actually beneficial when imbibing).

I figured it had to be, iirc from reading veterinary metabolic panel normal ranges most of us placental mammals have roughly the same electrolyte balances. Afaik it goes back to whether you have a common ancestor only before or also after leaving the ocean and that your balance is reflective of the ocean's balance at that time.

It sounds like there were a few trace minerals that might have built up if he'd kept drinking it in it's intended strength chronically but the core issue was him drinking essentially a straight salt slurry.

Just don’t use too much…

artificial apple flavor

Is this something horses actually like, or was it put there knowing very well humans would be consuming it

Too much calcium brittle bones, among other issues. It's called Hypercalcemia

Not if someone in CDC (new management I mean) has a stake in horse electrolyte manufacturer.

Steve Jobs enters the chat...

I used to work in a baked goods factory where scrapped product and ingredients got sold to a pig feed supplier

They constantly told the workers not to put any product that had touched the floor into the pig feed bins (the floor, aside from being the fucking gross floor, often had metal shavings, machine oil, etc. on it) but everyone ignored that rule and management barely tried to enforce it

Another reason to feel bad for factory farmed animals. Those pigs probably have lacerations throughout their digestive system. :(