Keto Chow Daily Minerals

A piece of advice for those that have trouble with the taste. Mix it with warm bone broth and drink. You can also save the juice from the meat you cook in a crock pot or oven and heat it up and mix. Makes it much easier to take. I started taking this when I had a cold so I cannot say I saw a difference in how it makes me feel but I feel good and the thought that I am replenishing my body with minerals I am missing is a good thing. Update: after 3-weeks on carnivore I feel great with lots of energy and sleeping better than I have in a long time. I attribute a lot of that to these SALTT mineral drops. Still tastes rough alone, but if you mix it with warm bone broth or the drippings from your cooked meat it goes down real easy. Almost like sipping hot tea

This stuff tastes bad. There's no way around it. I do not eat carbs so I can't put it in fruit juice, I drink half a tablespoon in the morning and water and half a tablespoon at supper time and water. I'm not going to act like it isn't bad, it is really bad. But my health has improved greatly because of it. My husband and I have taken this for most of the last year, we did miss a couple months because we just didn't reorder it. I dreaded taking it again due to the taste, but looked forward to taking it again due to the health benefits. Our first dose it felt as if our body just sucked it in, we needed it so badly. It really does make you feel healthier especially if you're overcoming years of bad diet and poor health. My husband and I are both in our 50s, and this was a much-needed supplement. I sure wish it could taste better, I imagine if you put it in orange juice it would help a lot to cover the taste. But it is what it is, and sometimes we just have to toughen up and do what's best for ourselves. It's gross, but it works to improve your overall health.

I've been eating low carb for over a year, and am transitioning to a ketogenic diet. Being in that camp, I've been trying different electrolyte formulas during that time. For me, this is hands down the best! I love it! I've discovered that any kind of stevia (rebaudioside A) not only leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but after a year of using just a single scoop of Ultima/Relyte/LMNT etc. in 1/2 gallon of water a day (so not much), I developed a bitter taste in my mouth that never went away. I tried several brands before it dawned on me that it wasn't the brand, but the Reb A/stevia that was the culprit. Keto Chow has nothing added...AT ALL. It is a liquid, so it leaves no undissolved residue in the bottom of the pitcher. I use a full daily dose...1 tablespoon in 1/2 gallon of water. It makes the water taste great with no bitter or salty taste, and gives it a "wetter than water" mouth feel and makes the water super thirst quenching. Better than Gatorade (or similar) ever thought of being. We are on a well, so if you are on city water, I suggest getting hold of some non-chlorinated/non-fluoridated water. Reason being, both chlorine and fluoride interfere with iodine utilization in the body. Lastly, it took about a week, but the residual bitterness in my mouth is gone. No stevia for me ever again!

I wanted to like this, I really did. After hitting a plateau of 22 lbs of weight loss from basically eating keto, I started carnivore 2 days ago, and knew I'd probably need to supplement electrolytes because initially I suffered with cramping during keto until I made some dietary adjustments. I also like Dr. Ken Berry's videos, so why not try this? That said, I was a bit concerned that Keto Chow Trace Minerals Drops contains twice the amount of chromium recommended by NIH or the CDC (I can't remember where I saw this when researching it a couple days ago; do your own research. But I ordered anyway thinking "The extra chromium isn't going to kill me for the 90 days I expect to be on carnivore." What might kill me, though, is the taste of this stuff, particularly because it actually makes me nauseous. The flavor is similar to drinking a glass of water that is highly saturated with baking soda. Don't get me wrong -- I've drank a glass of baking soda water many times back in the day when I experienced acid reflux daily (before I started keto and intermittent fasting). I'm not saying this tastes exactly like that; I'm just saying that's what this reminds me of. They're about as close to each other as, say, a lemon and a lime. Also, don't assume that my stomach is easily turned or that I'm a picky eater. Neither could be farther from the truth. I'm the guy that our family regards as something of a human Tasmanian Devil because I regularly eat out-of-date food because I can't stand to waste it. (Depression-era parents.) I also eat all sorts of foods and flavors that others commonly avoid. Oysters? No problem. Cod liver? Bring it. Saeurkraut? Gimme two scoops. Moldy cheese? Yes please. Softshell crab sandwich? Make it a double. Bananas with long brown spots in them? Sure. Wormy apples off the tree in the back yard? Hey, that's what a paring knife is for! If you put it in front of me, I'll probably eat it. But not this stuff. I tried it in water with Monk Fruit sweetener, which I love. Ugh. I tried it in lemonade. Ugh. In my daily spiced tea. Ugh. In coffee. Ugh. In all of these, I also tried using only a half teaspoon at a time (recommended daily dose is one tablespoon). Ugh. The taste literally makes me nauseous. And lest you think I have a "weak stomach" and puke regularly, just know that I've only hurled twice in the last ten years -- once when I had a horrible stomach flu that had my whole family vomiting, and once when a kidney stone's abrupt ramp-up in pain made me barf up the Percocet I'd just taken to cope without an emergency room and its wonderful assortment of intravenous painkillers. I don't hurl easily. But this electrolyte solution makes me want to. It's sad, too, because the only other decent electrolyte formula I see on Amazon is sweetened with Stevia, which I am avoiding for taste and health reasons. That means I'm going to have to consult a bunch of YouTube videos and concoct my own formula, which I really didn't want to do. I really wanted to like this stuff (holy smokes, who wants to throw away a $66 item he purchased only 24 hours ago?), but it ain't happenin' here. Our tastes are all different, and your mileage may vary, but this expired-food-eating skinflint would rather throw away $66 of product than ever have to sample this stuff again. And no, the nausea I experienced from this product was not related to consumption of expired food that day. I haven't eaten anything questionable in the last several days, and the only time I felt nausea has been while drinking this electrolyte formula and during the 20-30 minutes afterward. Good luck! UPDATE: I tried this stuff again this evening (5 months later) because I'm considering going back on carnivore and will probably need an electrolyte supplement. I mixed a tablespoon of this into a 12 oz. glass of the distilled water I drink every day. I took one mouthful and ugh, just could not bring myself to drink more. It reminded me of my childhood when my Mom would give me Triaminic or Robitussin DM or Robitussin PE and I used to think "Jeez, I'd rather just have the cold and cough and croup." Only tonight, drinking this stuff, I honestly thought "If drinking this is what it'll take to lose weight, I'd rather just stay fat and die early." The kicker is that I retried this tonight without first remembering my former bad experience. I'd tried a couple different electrolyte formulas last August including this stuff, and tonight I tried this again partly because I didn't remember how much I hated it, or to be more accurate, which electrolyte I hated. After trying it again tonight, I thought "I've gotta get on Amazon and see if I reviewed this stuff, because if I didn't, I should to help someone else avoid this experience." I checked to find this review sitting here. Then, reading several other negative reviews, I thought I should clarify something. It's about the salt. The saltiness had NOTHING to do with my loathing of this stuff's flavor. I need to clarify that because 1) I mentioned in my earlier review that the taste of this stuff is somewhat reminiscent of drinking water with baking soda in it; and 2) several negative reviews focus on this stuff's saltiness. But salt isn't a problem for me. Prove it, you say. Okay, here goes. I was raised in Maryland where seafood is a thing. I love seafood and love salt. Every morning lately I've been waking up and drinking 12 oz. of salted chicken stock because I like it, because it helps quell my morning appetite so I can continue fasting, and because a doctor online suggests it to help waken the brain. I also love oysters on the half shell or straight out of a jar. I love Kosher dill pickles and eat 2-3 spears roughly every couple days. If I'm hungry in the evening but don't want to destroy my gut with carbs and get gerd, I pop open a can of clams and eat them right out of the can. I eat sardines frequently. When I make a Caesar salad, I usually put only half a can of anchovies in it because I eat the rest while making the salad. So to be completely clear, I hate Keto Chow despite absolutely loving salt. And unlike Keto Chow, salt, even in higher than normal quantities, has never made me nauseous. Thought you should know. Also, just to be clear, I have no affiliation with any other electrolyte product. Sadly, I haven't found one I liked, so I'm just taking supplements of magnesium lysinate glycinate, potassium, and vitamin D and a couple other things that are supposed to help the body absorb magnesium. I wish I could recommend an alternative to this product, but sadly I haven't reached that milestone yet.

The main reason to get this supplement over the other trace mineral supplements for me is the 1000mg of potassium. Potassium is pretty hard to find in supplemental form with more than 97mg (which is like 2% of RDA). Even 1000mg isn't 100% RDA, but at least it is a move in the right direction. Magnesium and sodium are easy enough to find in other supplements. But with this, you won't need to eat as much lettuce to get enough potassium since bananas are not Keto. Others complain about bitterness, but I don't taste it myself. This might just mean I'm less sensitive to bitter tastes, but YMMV. I do about one portion a day in my glass which I use a bit of MIO flavor enhancers to cover up the bland taste of water. With this added, it feels smoother and maybe a bit saltier, but I prefer bitter flavors like lemonade so maybe that is why I'm not bothered by the "bitter" taste. You don't have to add this only to drinks though. Sprinkle it on your salad or meat while cooking. It is composed of minerals so you don't have to worry about them evaporating away. And a flavor that might disagree with your drink might taste pretty good on grilled meat.