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Solving the Hydration Mystery in Ultrarunning with Meridith Cass of Nix Biosensors | Koopcast Episode 112

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The Inaccuracy of the Gatorade Type Sensing Method

The Gatorade patch is sensing method is built off of color metric dies as opposed to any sort of electrochemical reading. So their technology is built off varying shades of purple to understand, for example, the electrolyte content in your sweat. That's why you can't just look with your own human eye and say, I'm in such and such an electrolyte range. It's looking at that sort of color, color analysis. You will stay back to like, you know, first year chemistry or like eighth grade chemistry.

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