Read this in a newsletter this morning
Dec. 30th, 2025 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asphaltcowgrrlAnd I had to share. It's a fitness/health newsletter I get and it always has interesting information about health trends, fitness hacks, etc. Always with a touch of humor.
Humans aren’t the only ones chasing electrolytes.
Researchers have documented moths sipping the tears of moose to get a hit of sodium — a scarce mineral in their environment, apparently due to an oversight by Gatorade’s marketing team.
What the research failed to mention:
Why the moose was crying.
The shoutout to Gatorade took me out.
Humans aren’t the only ones chasing electrolytes.
Researchers have documented moths sipping the tears of moose to get a hit of sodium — a scarce mineral in their environment, apparently due to an oversight by Gatorade’s marketing team.
What the research failed to mention:
Why the moose was crying.
The shoutout to Gatorade took me out.
