With Electrolytes, you replenish the electrolytes your horse has lost through sweating. Electrolytes regulate the body's fluid balance.
At high temperatures or during strenuous exercise, a horse sweats profusely. This sweat also causes a significant loss of electrolytes. Electrolytes regulate the body's fluid balance and are important for energy management, pH balance, muscle contraction and relaxation, and signal transmission in the brain and nervous system. The body cannot produce these electrolytes itself but must be obtained from food and drinking water. During prolonged exercise, a horse loses significantly more electrolytes through sweat than can be replenished through its normal feed. In these cases, it is important to provide the horse with additional electrolytes.
Electrolytes are powders that can be easily added to food or dissolved in drinking water. Electrolyte supplements often also contain dextrose. This dextrose plays a crucial role in accelerating the absorption of water and ions in the small intestine.
