Tag: muscle cramps

Magnesium – Are you deficient?

Do you experience ‘eye tics’? – They are those embarrassing moments when your eyelid feels like it is jumping for all the world to see? – Or, do you have any other muscles go into little pulsing spasms?

Significant magnesium deficiency is the primary cause of ‘tics’. It is also the main cause of cramps in calf muscles or anywhere else. Missed heart beats (ectopic) and benign tachycardias often respond to magnesium therapy, together with general fatigue , constipation, poor stress management and warding off migraines. Continue reading →

Electrolytes – What are they?

The relevance of electrolytes to us as humans is that they are healthy salts required for just about everything our body chemistry does. They include ions of calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and chloride.

Have you ever had the experience of drinking lots of water and not being able to quench your thirst, especially in a heat wave or when doing hard labour or exercise? In this case serious dehydration has already occurred; electrolytes have become deficient and the body has not been able to use the electrolytes to hold water in your body. Consequently you may notice yourself ‘peeing’ a lot! Continue reading →