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s2/e21 Muscle Cramps (What We Do & Don't Know) with Coach Elisabeth

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Muscle Cramps - Why Didn't Everyone Get Muscle Coughs?

In a report published in 19 36, they found that the men who were experiencing muscle cramping exhibited dehydration. And then they did something which would never ever fly with any ethics board in to day's world. They gave the employees at one mill access to saline, you know, salt m and the other mills didn't get access to salt. And the mill that got access to salt had a mass of reduction in the incidents of mussel cramps. So it sounds like we solved this in 19 36,. right? Hey, hot human conditions, drinking too much plain water, really hard work. Give em some salt, they'll be fine. Why are we still talking about this? Is

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