Potassium Cramps VS. Magnesium Cramps | #ScienceSaturday

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The inaugural video is about muscle cramps.

You've probably experienced both kinds of muscle cramps before, and probably didn't even realize there was a difference.

There's the types of "cramps" you get where you're being active (running, biking, playing a sport) and you start to "bonk."

Then there's the other type of muscle cramps that wake you up in the middle of the night, clutching at your legs as they "seize" up!

You probably already knew that mineral deficiency caused cramping, which mineral deficiency causes which type of cramp?

[i_am_mrgiggles]

anyone just watching this and found yourself wiping the screen thinking something was on it! 😂

[Coachthom]

SUMMARY: cramp at the beginning would be a magnesium cramp. Potassium cramps at middle or the end of a work. sleeping cramps is magnesium cramp. Potassium cramp is easy to replenish. Magnesium needs a quality source. Potassium is early absorbed.

[GUNTHERSHELL]

This is the best explanation I've heard. Thank you.

[stevenrousseau]

Been waiting for 53 years for someone to tell me this. Thank you so much ❤

[josephpaige]

Thank you Both ! I've been looking for an answer to this question about which mineral deficiency might be responsible for these cramps. Great simple to understand explanation.

[williampapadopoulos]

some magnesium rich foods would be avocados and cashews if you get a cramp in the middle of the night. I have noticed that if I keep my blood sugar low/under control and take some apple cider vinegar/lemon juice/stevia cocktail amongst liberal amounts of water well before bedtime I don’t need to go to the bathroom as much, therefore I stay more hydrated, and therefore less cramping! Cramping has everything to do with being dehydrated! I am sure the lack of other minerals play a part in it if you work out intensely but I have found dehydration from having to get up three times a night to go to the bathroom to be the common denominator, whether you work out or not.

[evc]

It would have been beneficial for you to ask the doctor how we are to distinguish a "well absorbing magnesium".

[danielcarter]

I switched to IODIZED SALT. Many types of salt are no longer sold with iodine. Not only that, but the salts in processed foods are typically not fortified with iodine. I had been on the Keto diet for over a year and I was using Morton Lite Salt because it included Potassium. I also took supplements for potassium, magnesium, calcium, etc... but I had overlooked iodine because nobody ... and I mean NOBODY online was mentioning iodine deficiency as a possible cause. Many salts are now being sold without iodine, so many people may be in this situation and nobody is telling them that iodine deficiency may be the cause. If iodine deficiency is your cause, then it's an easy fix~! Try out the iodized salt or get yourself some iodine supplements and give it a try. An iodine deficiency can have many other bad repercussions. Check it out~!

[elfinamurni]

Oh wow. Glad I came across this video. I have been having random cramps since I was a kid. And up to date, been having cramps almost everywhere, from hands, legs, chin/jaw, waist, thigh. And it's pretty annoying. Usually gets worst when it's cold. And I am very sensitive to cold too 😢

[josephstjames]

Any recommendations of high quality magnesium and potassium?

[moosefactory]

I rode my bicycle 116 miles yesterday and I had horrific painful muscle spasms in the night. I had to lay on the floor and push my foot against the bottom of my sofa because standing on it did not seem to help as much as should. Took some potassium tablets and eventually was able to fall asleep after a couple of hours

[dinahmiteideas]

Wow thanks for this video! I have night cramps calf, toes, top foot or muscle in front of my leg to ankle.
I have magnesium deficiency!

[jackpepper]

Awesome video and great to know. Just had one after fasting with coffee, salt and water exactly 72 hours.
I was sound asleep in a dream where I was running.
Calf cramp felt like it was going to tear itself into 2 pieces for around a minute or more awful pain.
Thank you both for sharing

[kobalt]

Thank you Thomas, your videos are always super informative and well presented.

[sharparter]

Very informative explanation between the differences of the two. Thumbs up!

[Hisloyalservantslistenlovec]

Carbohydrates use potassium and magnesium to be assimilated in the body. This means that overeating carbohydrates can deplete your K ( potassium ) levels and also your Mg ( magnesium ) levels.

[tellmestraight]

Thanks for the data on magnesium and potassium cramps. What about sodium?

[jibberoverjava]

This is helpful. It's hard to find any information on cramps that isn't about exertional or exercise indused cramps. I can hardly eat fruit NOT EVEN ONE SLICE OF BANANA and have to avoid many vegetables because they give me SEVERE cramps throughout any area of my body. It used to be only my legs and feet at night, but currently within a few minutes to an hour of consuming they cause muscle cramps any where from head to toe that the pain of is so severe in certain areas I'm panting, panicking and vomiting from the pain/cramp that lasts several hours...omg!!! So very bad. I heard of a disorder that causes severe total body cramps but I don't remember the name of it. I was a tilt upgraded power wheelchair user, muscle weakness and atrophy that gradually over took me. I learned about MTHFR gene. All the symptoms matched. Started taking L-Methylfolate and within 2 weeks could feel a difference. After being on it for 2 months I can walk again, lift a sauce pan or a water pitcher with one hand again. My muscle severe fatigue is 40% better!!! My doctors/specialists wouldn't check metabolic issues or do muscle biopsy for ALS, myasthenia gravis, or consider my several dianosed Autoimmune conditions and mitralvalve regulation or even my central/neurologic apnea.Two neurologists watched strong faciculations occuring in my arms and legs and refused to document it. I stopped going to doctors to find a diagnosis/cure altogether. I took L-Methylfolate 15mg, went vegan again and can now walk 2 miles, depression is gone completely. But I still have cramps ONLY AND SOLELY related to fruits and vegetables consumption. Meat was escalating my kidney protein and cruciferous vegs my calcium to the point of ostiopenea and kidney disease so can't have too much oxalate, protein, potassium, phosphorus or meat anymore at all so I eat only certain fruits and vegetables with caution and grain/grain based products carefully. I wish so much for a diagnosis. When they hear L-Methylfolate made me walk again they probably will have nothing to say for themselves, won't even acknowledge their errors. I'm so glad I can walk again after such a long decline from 2006 to 2023!!! Just can't believe L-Methylfolate was all I needed all these years. Now I'm trying to understand and learn why fruits and vegetables seem toxic to me, if it's another gene issue I have or intolerance to synthetic and cyanide based Bs, etc., in supplements and oxalates, potassium and phosphates in foods or if it's metabolic, autoimmune or gene related. I want to live, to walk, to laugh, be productive not physically disabled anymore.

[JaydonRose]

Thanks for the video. You may want to try using a Magnesium oil, ... spray on or massage into the skin all around the cramp to help it get absorbed more quickly to the affected area. Also taking an epsom salt bath will help the body absorb Magnesium quite well to relax sore muscles throughout the entire body... It works well for me personally. Hope it helps for you too! :) For Potassium, I personally use a little Potassium citrate ( only like a quarter of a teaspoon) to an acv drink or a pre-workout drink for a boost. Most of your potassium really should come from natural food sources though. And beware of the different varieties of potassium as some can cause severe health problems if not properly diagnosed or prescribed. The Citrate version, in small amounts, is considered to be realtively safe from my understanding... but I'm not a scientist nor a doctor so just my 2 cents from what I've learned.

[FunJC]

Right to the point. Great job on the video. ❤

For a long time we were taking calcium for those night leg cramps🦵. It turned out the calcium we were taking had magnesium in the pills, so that was why they worked. 🤸‍♂️

Anyhow nice to be able to know if its Potassium or Magnesium. Thank you!