Effects of the Potassium and Magnesium Salts of Aspartic Acid on Metabolic Exhaustion

Two groups of 40 rats were placed in a swim test situation designed to produce metabolic exhaustion. The provision of potassium and magnesium aspartates to one group at a dose of 1 Gm./Kg. significantly delayed the onset of metabolic exhaustion as evaluated by swimming time. It is considered that this alteration in swim time occurred as a result of the material's affecting those animals which would ordinarily have swum for less than 196 minutes rather than altering the times of the group as a whole.