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Cramp or Cramps

My Own Experience with Cramp. (See also my page on Salt)

When I was eating the standard diet that almost everybody has been eating these days, I had plenty of sodium in the likes of bread and processed foods that I was eating. However, when I went low carb, high fat and got rid of the processed foods and later when I quit plants altogether, I noticed that I was suffering more from night cramps in the legs etc. when I stretched. Clearly I was missing something. 

My first experiment was with adding salt (sodium chloride) to my drinking water at a rate of 1 tsp to 1 litre of water. When I consumed somewhere between one and two teaspoons of salt a day the cramps disappeared. 

Since then I've tried experimenting with upping the magnesium and potassium  I ingest  (in separate experiments) and found that neither of these did anything to stop cramps (in the absence of salt that is). I got up to 2 teaspoons of potassium bicarbonate in my daily diet and found that all it did was increase my average blood pressure from 120/80 to 130/80 in the month I was experimenting with potassium. Since it only caused a negative effect and there was no visible positive, I determined that my potassium intake was probably sufficient on my meat-only, plant-free diet. 

I continue to use 1-2 teaspoons of plain table salt in carbonated, chilled water every day and if I don't accidentally drop below 1 teaspoon I have no recurrence of cramps. The bar staff at my golf course have a container of salt behind the bar and they all know to make my drink a plain 'sodium and soda' with a touch of ice. ​
Phinney and Volek said the following in The Art and Science of Low Carb Living
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    • My Health >
      • Genome
      • ACC Fight
    • Chris' Journey
  • Basics
    • Discussions by Subject >
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        • Agriculture
        • Anti-nutrients
        • Antioxidants
        • Brain - Key to Keto-Adaptation
        • Carnivory >
          • Carnivore Science Video
        • Cholesterol
        • CICO
        • Coffee
        • Dental >
          • Dental Caries and Carbohydrates
        • Deuterium
        • Dietary vs Liver made fats
        • Fiber >
          • Fiber Menace
        • Gluten
        • Insulin Resistance
      • J-Z >
        • Ketosis
        • Light and Health
        • Methylation
        • Mitochondria
        • Nutrients >
          • Carbohydrate >
            • Glucose
          • Fat >
            • Saturated Fat
          • Protein >
            • Protein Leverage Hypothesis
          • Nutrients - Plant vs Animal Sources
          • Potassium
        • Obesity
        • Salt gets its own page
        • Soy - Western A. Price
        • Statins
        • Uric Acid
        • Vaccines
        • Vegetarianism >
          • Vegetarians Have Smaller Brains
        • Vitamins >
          • D
          • Vitamin C
          • Vitamin D >
            • Slides from Garland's Lecture
          • Vitamin K
    • Foods - Nobody does it better than Georgia Ede >
      • Beef
      • Meat Composition
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    • The People >
      • Benjamin Bikman
      • Ivor Cummins
      • Georgia Ede MD
      • Phil Escott >
        • Arthritis: The Best Thing That Happened To Me
        • Pure Activity
      • Barry Groves >
        • Do You Have to be Mental to be a Vegetarian
      • Zoe Harcombe
      • Adele Hite
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      • Malaena Medford >
        • MM On Calories
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      • Tom Naughton - Fat Head
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      • L. Amber O'Hearn
      • The Bear - Owsley Stanley
    • Rosedale Lecture
    • All Sorts of Links and Videos
    • The 20 Myths
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    • How to win an argument on nutrition
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