I know that cramps are the involuntary contraction of a specific muscle, but I want to know how that happens. What process causes them?
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Cramps are the result of exercise that is not allowed to clean up after itself, and they are a taste of death. When you exercise, your heart rate goes up, and that moves blood through your body faster. That blood carries oxygen and stuff, but it also carries away the local byproducts of exercise in your muscles, and helps replenish stuff like electrolytes, which your flexors and tensors crave. If you stop moving without taking a minute to cool down, you might not allow your muscles and stuff enough access to moving blood and cleanup processes to deal with what’s there. After enough trash piles up without getting dealt with, you experience a little bit of what occurs a few hours after death.
Rigor mortis is what happens when your body’s muscles contract because they no longer have an oxygen supply, which is necessary for the creation of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. ATP is used to release the cross-bridges in your muscles that are used for contraction. By releasing those cross-bridges, ATP is responsible for relaxation.
Oxygen is necessary for you to be able to relax not just your mind, but also your body. So, take those deep breaths, because they allow your body to stave off those cramps. Every cramp is your body telling you what it’s like to die.
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