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« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2011, 02:47:PM » |
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We were told in the army that leg cramps were a result of dehydration, and experience proved it to be true. Just drink a lot more water, especially if you are on the heavier side.
I already have to get up several times each night (4 or 5 times on a bad night) to use the bathroom (as well as waking up with cramps). If I drank more water, I would never get to sleep at all! This reminds me of Rick Wakeman's hangover cure: "Drink two gallons of water before going to bed." Assuming you could even do that, how would you ever get to sleep? You're pissing away all your nutrients and hydration. |
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« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2011, 10:44:AM » |
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You bet Peter but when you get to a certain age it happens. It's just the organs are getting older and work a little less well. This might interest us all. You've all heard that we are living longer, it's been reported everywhere. What hasn't gotten covered is the folks that do the actuarial sciences for the govt. issued a statement telling folks to stop saying that because they don't have facts to back that up. I was focused on work and I never had a lot of friends, but now I have none. They have all died in the 60's. I believe the baby boom problem will solve itself my contemporaries won't live much past 70 something, just like our parents.
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« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2011, 11:06:AM » |
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Indeed.We are certainly not living longer. I Have seen many family members buried from Cancer in the last 10 years,barely any of em getting past their early 60s.55 is the new 75 in that sense.
The stats often take into account high infant mortality in days gone by but if you made it past 10 you often lived well into your 80s/90s.
The living longer lie is all part of the liberal progressive false narrative that things are better than ever and will continue to improve as man becomes more enlightened.
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« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2011, 11:13:AM » |
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Indeed.We are certainly not living longer. I Have seen many family members buried from Cancer in the last 10 years,barely any of em getting past their early 60s.55 is the new 75 in that sense.
The stats often take into account high infant mortality in days gone by but if you made it past 10 you often lived well into your 80s/90s.
The living longer lie is all part of the liberal progressive false narrative that things are better than ever and will continue to improve as man becomes more enlightened.
You know, I've often thought that there was something fishy when I'd hear that people used to only make it to their 40s or whatever. Please. Maybe they were talking about the Middle Ages or something, but I do genealogy and have followed my family history since the early 1700s. Some of those folks lived a very long time, around 90 like today. And some died in their 60s. And some died in their 20s. Just like now. |
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« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2011, 07:44:PM » |
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I used to have leg cramps every night since I was a teenager. I just take a dose of OTC Calcium Citrate at dinner every night. I do not have them any longer.
When I run out, or miss a day, it will come back.
Hmmm... Eve since my bike accident last summer (collarbone broken in two places + ribs broken in eleven places), I have been taking a 700 mg calcium tablet twice a day, once with breakfast and once with dinner. It has had no effect on my leg cramps. I don't get cramps every night, but often enough to be an annoyance. So I'm not convinced that calcium is the answer either. |
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2011, 08:16:PM » |
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Indeed.We are certainly not living longer. I Have seen many family members buried from Cancer in the last 10 years,barely any of em getting past their early 60s.55 is the new 75 in that sense.
The stats often take into account high infant mortality in days gone by but if you made it past 10 you often lived well into your 80s/90s.
The living longer lie is all part of the liberal progressive false narrative that things are better than ever and will continue to improve as man becomes more enlightened.
Even if we do live longer our quality of life is worse. I'd rather have 50 good years than 90 crappy ones during which I can barely accomplish anything of note. |
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2011, 01:00:AM » |
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I used to have leg cramps every night since I was a teenager. I just take a dose of OTC Calcium Citrate at dinner every night. I do not have them any longer.
When I run out, or miss a day, it will come back.
Hmmm... Eve since my bike accident last summer (collarbone broken in two places + ribs broken in eleven places), I have been taking a 700 mg calcium tablet twice a day, once with breakfast and once with dinner. It has had no effect on my leg cramps. I don't get cramps every night, but often enough to be an annoyance. So I'm not convinced that calcium is the answer either. Look into D3 deficiency...calcium needs adequate D3 levels to be absorbed. |
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« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2011, 07:51:AM » |
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I used to have leg cramps every night since I was a teenager. I just take a dose of OTC Calcium Citrate at dinner every night. I do not have them any longer.
When I run out, or miss a day, it will come back.
Hmmm... Eve since my bike accident last summer (collarbone broken in two places + ribs broken in eleven places), I have been taking a 700 mg calcium tablet twice a day, once with breakfast and once with dinner. It has had no effect on my leg cramps. I don't get cramps every night, but often enough to be an annoyance. So I'm not convinced that calcium is the answer either. Look into D3 deficiency...calcium needs adequate D3 levels to be absorbed. And D3 needs K2 to be absorbed... |
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« Reply #28 on: July 05, 2011, 06:11:PM » |
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I guess it goes with the suggestions already given- but my mom's Dr told her to have a glass of milk about an hour before bed to keep the leg cramps away.
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« Reply #29 on: July 05, 2011, 11:31:PM » |
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I used to have leg cramps every night since I was a teenager. I just take a dose of OTC Calcium Citrate at dinner every night. I do not have them any longer.
When I run out, or miss a day, it will come back.
Hmmm... Eve since my bike accident last summer (collarbone broken in two places + ribs broken in eleven places), I have been taking a 700 mg calcium tablet twice a day, once with breakfast and once with dinner. It has had no effect on my leg cramps. I don't get cramps every night, but often enough to be an annoyance. So I'm not convinced that calcium is the answer either. Look into D3 deficiency...calcium needs adequate D3 levels to be absorbed. And D3 needs K2 to be absorbed... The Calcium tablets I'm taking contain both D3 and K2. |
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