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Everything You Know About Cramps Is Wrong, And Gatorade Is Full Of Shit

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item type
article on a website
author
Kyle Wagner
link
https://deadspin.com/everything-you-know-about-cramps-is-wrong-and-gat [snip!]
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journal
Regressing.deadspin.com
year
2015
month
Jul 9

excerpt

We actually don’t know for sure what causes a muscle cramp, despite what you may have heard from your high school football coach, or your half-marathoning buddy, or your gym-rat friend, or a sports-drink commercial. And the reason we don’t know has a lot to do with Gatorade and the “science” of hydration.

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