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Originally Posted by Gaybucks
The other posters are correct; a very common cause of muscle spasms is a deficiency of magnesium and/or potassium. However, consuming sea salt or any other salt containing minerals is counterproductive because most Americans consume way too much salt (about 10x what's actually needed by the body) while at the same time getting too little potassium.
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This isn't true at all ... there is a very big difference between PROCESSED SALT which is actually sodium chloride, sea salt which has minerals but some impurities and salt crystals which are in their pure form and are full of actual minerals.
Salt is actually a scientific name given to a combination of minerals which are entirely neutral so what do you mean by 'salt containing minerals'? That's what salt is supposed to be ... a combination of minerals. What you are calling 'salt' is actually sodium chloride.
The point I was trying to make originally is that all sodium chloride in your diet should be replaced with salt ... and no, we do not have enough of this in our diet, but we do have too much sodium chloride.