Originally Posted By: Joe Gordon
Lacking potassium? Not sure!


Making sure that your body has the key electrolytes and minerals that can prevent cramps certainly wouldn't hurt.

I started getting cramps occasionally after the fiasco with the flesh-eating bacteria and the hospital and operations several or more years back now, and found that to be the case for me. However, I also found that it is a situation where I have to keep up on the supplements - without overdoing it - daily in order not to have them appear at innopurtune times such as the stresses encountered in performance.

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Causes of Muscle Cramps

Muscle cramps are usually caused by dietary deficiencies of vitamins and minerals, particularly of calcium, potassium, magnesium, vitamins D and B6, or the body's inability to assimilate these nutrients from the diet. They may also result from oxygen deficiency in the tissues. Other causes of muscle cramps are mental stress, nervous irritability and other psychic factors.


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The contributory underlying causes of muscle cramps associated with old age, where there has been adequate dietary calcium supply, are the lack of sufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach, lack of dietary magnesium or Vitamin D, without which calcium cannot be properly utilized. Other causes include uraemia, peripheral vascular disease and neurological disability.


Needless to say, you should consult with your doctor before adding such vitamins and minerals to your medical regimen, though. Make sure that there won't be any undesirable interactions with any pharmaceuticals that you are already taking, etc.


--Mac

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