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Today, this question is from Kendra S.
Kendra asks "Hi,
Dr. Group,
I was looking into selling your products through my massage practice
and I stumbled on your blog section
for the past 5 years 46 year old husband
has been having terrible upward
leg cramps there so painful he sometimes wonders if the pain will cause a heart attack.
The spasms last about 5 minutes, and attack his hip flexors.
They tend to start while in bed while he's in the flexed position.
We've seen traditional and alternative medicine doctors and the best advice is
potassium and exercise.
No one seems to you get how extensive these cramps are and luckily I've
been with him to apply pressure
which seems to help somewhat.
Any insight would be appreciated.
My husband does not complain of pain, so when he calls out to me in a cold sweat
for help
and on the verge of tears
I know that it is not your typical leg cramp.
Thanks. I look forward to your answer. Kendra.
Kendra
that possibly could be a serious situation but let me just go over some
things off hand that i feel could be causing he problem.
Of course, any doctor
is going to immediately think that your husband has electrolyte deficiency.
Muscle cramping is caused by an electrolyte deficiency:
potassium, sodium,
calcium,
magnesium.
That is something that should be looked at. I'm not sure if that
could be causing the problem and even if you do you have an electrolyte deficiency
most of the time doctors prescribe you the wrong time of electrolytes.
I would always recommend only calcium orotate magnesium orotate, potassium orotate,
all the orotate forms,
for the electrolytes.
There are a few other things that it could possibly be. You state that
his pain is in his hip flexor
The hip flexors are the quadriceps, and they're attached at the upper area
of the thigh.
I'm not sure if it's on both sides or if it's on one side,
but it could be some blockages in the femoral artery or one of the veins,
let's say, going down into the quadriceps.
First thing I would do, in this case, if it were me, was cleanse my system extensively.
I would start with an
intestinal cleanse, move on to three liver and gallbladder cleanses, move on to a harmful
organism cleanse, and then a chemical and heavy metal cleanse,
as well as cleansing the environment.
I would start tracking how many times he has the pains, and start looking at what
he's eating you doing during the day where he has those outbreaks.
Also I would look at how much water he drinks during the day.
A simple and easy, and fast way to get electrolytes in your system is just
drink
purified water
with organic apple cider vinegar added into it. So we'd definitely
recommend that he starts on that right away
Sometimes you could have harmful organisms or parasites that actually
get imbedded in different muscle tissue and cause cramping like that.
I don't know if you guys have traveled out of the country anytime soon, if he
travels outside of the country, and if that's associated with
outside of the country travel, but
that's another reason why I would do a harmful organism cleanse.
And speaking of traveling outside of the country
sometimes when you travel by plane,
just it like a two hour plane ride sometimes is the equivalent of you
getting six chest x-rays
and sometimes your muscles can become tightened when they get irradiated when you're up in
the plane and cause spasms like that when you get back.
So, I finely chart when your husband is having these symptoms
and these spasms. Is it after a trip?
Is it late in the afternoon? And then we can start working on trying to figure out
what is actually causing these things and tracing it back to the root cause.
Another good multivitamin and mineral formula which you might want to try
in the meantime is Intramax. Intramax is the only organic
vitamin and mineral supplement that I recommend,
and I use personally, and we can just start with the process of elimination
and hopefully these
cramps will go away over time, but we can get it taken care of.
Thanks for your question Kendra, and hope that helps.
Take care. Have a great day.