I had cramps before, and always I was able to fix it by loading up on calcium and bananas. But this time, it didn't work. It reminded me of my dad, who often had cramps before, but back then he never did fix it. I don't recall him taking lots of potassium thru food, and even if he did, I'm not sure it would have helped in his twilight years.
I was trying to understand why and searching on Peat's website, I found a clue, that sepsis inhibits mitochondrial respiration, which would confirm what I had been suspecting for a while now but wanted to get some confirmation.
I want to make this brief. The long and short of this is that when the body is busy fighting an infection, it downregulates mitochondrial respiration. When the infection is really bad, or when it is chronic, prolonged downregulation of respiration will leave the body with a deficit of carbon dioxide, as well as carbonic acid and bicarbonates.
This will cause the muscles to lose its ability to relax quickly. What I feel as cramps in my legs would also be felt elsewhere when the cause is not fixed - as I felt the cramp spreading to my back and to my hands. And since the heart is a muscle, it would be affected although in my case I couldn't feel it. But since I have an oximeter that measures the perfusion index (PI), which aive been monitoring for a year already, I could see the PI go down as well @TheSir
I could see acid-base imbalance by measuring my urine pH and saliva pH (breath rate too but since I have good sugar metabolism and CO2 balance it doesn't change that much). Normally, the urine pH should. be lower than the saliva pH (in a well-functioning set of kidneys and lungs, and a balanced nutrition) but in my case my saliva pH is lower than the urine pH.
So, for a quick fix, I had to drink some Coke but since that didn't fix it, I'm taking some baking soda. This should help for a while.
Note: I don't have sepsis but I have an internal infection along the blood vessels' plaque and the biofilm of bacteria woven in with calcium and foam cells. I disturbed the plaque and I opened a Pandora's box. If I left it alone, I think I would still pay a big price - but in old age when I would be pronounced dead because of sepsis. Usually, since patient is dead, no one is likely to look at the cause of death- which bacteria and biofilm are involved - Everyone is happy to move on to the burial.
I was trying to understand why and searching on Peat's website, I found a clue, that sepsis inhibits mitochondrial respiration, which would confirm what I had been suspecting for a while now but wanted to get some confirmation.
I want to make this brief. The long and short of this is that when the body is busy fighting an infection, it downregulates mitochondrial respiration. When the infection is really bad, or when it is chronic, prolonged downregulation of respiration will leave the body with a deficit of carbon dioxide, as well as carbonic acid and bicarbonates.
This will cause the muscles to lose its ability to relax quickly. What I feel as cramps in my legs would also be felt elsewhere when the cause is not fixed - as I felt the cramp spreading to my back and to my hands. And since the heart is a muscle, it would be affected although in my case I couldn't feel it. But since I have an oximeter that measures the perfusion index (PI), which aive been monitoring for a year already, I could see the PI go down as well @TheSir
I could see acid-base imbalance by measuring my urine pH and saliva pH (breath rate too but since I have good sugar metabolism and CO2 balance it doesn't change that much). Normally, the urine pH should. be lower than the saliva pH (in a well-functioning set of kidneys and lungs, and a balanced nutrition) but in my case my saliva pH is lower than the urine pH.
So, for a quick fix, I had to drink some Coke but since that didn't fix it, I'm taking some baking soda. This should help for a while.
Note: I don't have sepsis but I have an internal infection along the blood vessels' plaque and the biofilm of bacteria woven in with calcium and foam cells. I disturbed the plaque and I opened a Pandora's box. If I left it alone, I think I would still pay a big price - but in old age when I would be pronounced dead because of sepsis. Usually, since patient is dead, no one is likely to look at the cause of death- which bacteria and biofilm are involved - Everyone is happy to move on to the burial.