Buzznerd123 wrote:True our condition could have something to do with sodium/potassium channels but in living beings electrolytes and channel gating are controlled extremey tightly in the neuromuscular junction.
This means that systemic status of electrolytes does influence muscle excitability and other things but supplementing if your status is ok is pointless.
Tough to say. There must be some influence of increased levels on that tightly controlled junction. More than a handful of people here have reported noticeable drop in twitching after drinking Gatorade. I'm one of them. I would be so bold as to say that my twitching (no other symptoms) decreased roughly 40 to 60% when I would have 2 glasses of Gatorade per day. And it would go right back up on the days I didn't. It was that noticeable for me. I can't explain why. But Gatorate is nothing but sodium and potassium, and my blood levels reflected mine were normal. So I wasn't deficient. Is it possible that there's a *dysfunction* in that junction, itself? Rather than just a deficiency in the blood stream? And an infusion of the proper ingredients might relieve that dysfunction a bit?
My anectodtal impression is that gatorade or even electrolyte replacements from the pharmacy do little to nothing for my symptoms (twitching and pain).
Fair enough. There are definitely different groups of twitchers here with different causes I think. Gatorade also used to contain Bromine however. No longer does. I often wondered if that was the key ingredient. Given that bromine is a central nervous system sedative (i think). They stopped including it right in the dead center of my discovery that Gatorade was helping immensely so I was super bummed. Even though its really quite bad for you

But by that time I was on the upswing anyway. Food was a massive massive catalyst to worsened symptoms for me, and I had changed my diet drastically by that point and was seeing relief.
-B-