So, I was reading the recent email advertisement from COTH about slow-release electrolytes (from KER). Is this a necessary thing, or is it more of an advertising “gimmick”? I’m am getting ready to order more electrolytes and now I’m not sure what to get.
It sure seems like a gimmick to me, as the product is in powder form… so not sure how that would be any different than every other powdered elyte on the market in terms of release time.
What product have you been using?
Lots of things can be made slow-release by the way they’re encapsulated/packaged. Tylenol has both rapid and extended release forms, for example.
Whether an extended release e-lyte is actually beneficial, I don’t know. In theory I can see its value for longer-duration work, but I can’t find any study they did on this (not saying it’s not out there, I just can’t find it quickly)
I can understand a capsule taking time to dissolve, thus being slow-release. But Restore seems to be a powder. Does that mean somehow they have encapsulated each sodium molecule? And if so, why only the sodium and not the potassium and/or magnesium?
I am actually interested enough I may email the company for more information. We already use their Enduramax for our endurance horses during events. Maybe there would be some benefit to mixing that and the Restore. 
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Please let us know if you find anything out. Thanks!
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There’s actually a slow release salt tablet for people, it turns out, using a wax/polymer product to encapsulate the granules. And yes, KER could produce the sodium in its encapsulated/protected/slow release form, before mixing it into the full product.
I don’t know enough about e-lytes and their usage by the body, the order (if any), the need (salt is the most important one, it’s the e-lyte lost most in sweat), other than based on that importance, to think that it’s the sodium that benefits the body most by being slow release.
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