I have been experimenting with my own electrolyte mix as I find being a Ketovore that I don’t hold water or electrolytes in the Central Texas heat like a bread muncher would. So when I heard Andy McCann on this episode I decided to spend way too much time with ChatGPT today figuring out how to make this closer to how LMNT does. Andy got us the basics, which is all one can expect in the short time he had. However, if you want to really get the same results and the same flavors… keep reading. LMNT posts recipes on their website which helps:

https://science.drinklmnt.com/electrolytes/best-homemade-electrolyte-drink-for-dehydration/

Obviously if your goal is like mine, make a bunch of dry mix that you put into a plastic container that you only have to refill once a year or you want to mix once and have all the LMNT clone powder mix you’ll need for a decade, you won’t be getting freshly cut watermelon chunks and orange slices like LMNT mentions in their recipes. So I replace with True Citrus products like: True Lime, True Watermelon, True Lemon, etc. I also have a preference to pure organic monk fruit instead of stevia. I said “pure monk fruit” as opposed to that which is commonly mixed with erythritol, which has been shown to potentially cause “increased risk of cardiovascular problems, including heart attacks, strokes, and death”. Seeing as how being dead is not surviving… I decided to avoid erythritol as compared to stevia. By the way the ratio of how much of it to use is essentially the same as stevia if you prefer that.

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Making our potential future AI overlord do the math for me before it uses all it has to bring about Judgement day lots of questions and math eventually lead to the following:

*I have some plastic containers that have a volume of 21.09 cubic inches and 1.46 cups of water (it will hold 1.5 easily for round numbers). I have a lot of these empty containers that I clean out and have a nice lid. You can use any container you like, just measure amount of cups of water it holds to recalculate amounts of each ingredient you need.
Final Scaled Amounts for 1.5 Cups (72 tsp total):

How to mix this for that container:

Ingredients:
Scaled tsp Oz/tsp Weight (oz) Price/oz Cost Sodium chloride 25.51 0.20 5.10 $0.27 $1.38 Potassium chloride 5.12 0.20 1.02 $0.55 $0.56 Di-magnesium malate 16.96 0.14 2.37 $2.06 $4.88 Citric acid 2.18 0.21 0.46 $0.39 $0.18 Monk fruit powder 13.24 0.035 0.46 $4.34 $2.00 True Lime powder 9.00 0.083 0.75 $1.73 $1.30
Total 72 tsp — 9.91 oz — $10.30
Total cost for this container = $10.30

Total cost for DIY Mix:
$1.60+$0.65+$5.66+$0.21+$2.35=$10.30, $0.81 per gallon of drink

Total cost for LMNT retail to make same amount = $71.82 total, $5.66 per gallon, $1.33 per 30 fl oz serving.
Savings of 85.7% or you if you prefer, DIY version is 14.3% the cost of the LMNT retail. Or call it 1/7 the price.

Typical tumbler cup is about 30 fl oz:

DIY Version Cost per 30 fl oz drink Vs. LMNT Retail
LMNT $1.33
DIY Mix $0.19

Size of scoop of dry mix for 30 oz drink = 1.4 tsp (1.5 is close enough). Adjust for personal preference. 1/2 tablespoon scoop = 1.5 teaspoons. Amazon offers one those scoops for under $5 or 5 of them for $7.60

1.5 cups of dry mix makes approximately:

• 1549 fluid ounces
• 193.6 cups
• 12.66 gallons
• 54 servings of 30 ounces of electrolyte drink

I hope this helps someone and it’s proof that we definitely can use AI to work for us. This way when Skynet goes live we’ll at least be well hydrated! Ha ha….

The trick for the electrolytes is go get the right flavoring. LMNT tastes amazing. Mine, not so much yet. We need to find a different flavor packet for traveling but we plan to mix with lime juice or similar.