Why do our muscles sometimes just randomly twitch?
In: Biology
Not a perfect explanation but your nerves sometimes are excited accidentally which causes them to send a signal to the muscles to contract
I get that every morning. When I wake up and stretch my leg does a weird floppy fish kinda twitch.
Maybe we are de-evolving. If you are having fish-like twitches, these are a precursor toward more significant changes to a physical changes in features. or maybe if it is a third leg trying to pop out. I had a twitch in my shoulder blade yesterday and I haven’t had a twitch in a while.
Maybe I am being paged. Or growing a new breathing organ to help us survive under water if Covid is about to wipe out the land-living human species? 🤷🏼♂️
I’m no expert but I have an educated guess :
Muscles are controlled by nerves. Nerves work using a chemical transfer between nerve cells. Sometimes the conditions aren’t perfect for the chemical reactions causing unwanted nerve signals.
Like dehydration causes cramping. Salt imbalance is bad for nerve-muscle interactions.
Not sure if you mean myokymia or something else, but it could be because of lack of sleep, excess caffeine, fatigue, stress, lack of magnesium…
If this is persistent then it is a sign of denervation from conditions like ALS (motor neuron disease).
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