So im currently planning a 7 day fast and researching electrolytes as i never have to take them from only doing OMAD. Found a local health store that sell bulk powder form, food grade, magnesium glycinate and potassium chloride, and they are a lot cheaper than any brand name i found, so I am still contemplating if i should get something with a brand name or buy cheap and measure myself, assuming the measuring can be done using a kitchen scale or measuring spoons.
Also, IF it’s indeed safe and viable to measure myself using kitchen scale or measuring spoon at home, i don’t exactly know how to measure the proper dosage i need, for example, the 200g powder form magnesium glycinate package is printed “food grade, 14.1% elemental magnesium by mass”, which i don’t understand what EXACTLY that means, doesn’t feel right to just assume. Can someone please walk me through this? Thank you.
I don’t have the exact numbers off the top of my head but you can find a lot of recipes online for “snake juice”. That’s what you want.
Just to echo what someone else said, DO NOT USE A NORMAL FOOD SCALE to measure this stuff. A food scale is not anywhere accurate enough for these substances. A jewelry or a coffee scale is the bare minimum. You need to be able to measure to the 10th of a gram. If you don’t have a suitable scale, only measure by volume using teaspoons.
If you take too much, it will probably be really easy to tell because you’ll likely shit yourself or throw up within an hour or less of consumption. Your body can’t handle that high of a concentration of salts at one time.
Be careful, but good luck! You got this!