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

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The Electrolite and the Electrolite N Balance Hypothesis

Your fibre either is contracted or it is not. There is no half way on this. Different amounts of force generation have to do with how many individual muscle cells get involved and contract simultaneously in order to produce a certain amount of force. So let's talk about the electrolite n balance hypothesis, cause this is really interesting stuff. The origin of this theory and the research around a dehydration and lack of sodium causing mussel cramps, came from industrial settings.

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