Is this normal when muscles twitches all over my body?

Why do low amounts of potassium in your body cause muscle twitches?

  • why do low amounts of potassium in your body cause muscle twitches

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    Potassium cations are important in neuron (brain and nerve) function, and in influencing osmotic balance between cells and the interstitial fluid, with their distribution mediated in all animals (but not in all plants) by the so-called Na+/K+-ATPase pump. Potassium is important in allowing muscle contraction and the sending of all nerve impulses in animals through action potentials. By nature of their electrostatic and chemical properties, K+ ions are larger than Na+ ions, and ion channels and pumps in cell membranes can distinguish between the two types of ions, actively pumping or passively allowing one of the two ions to pass, while blocking the other. In other words it is directly involved in the transmitting of nervous impulses (signals) in your body, the ones to your muscles in particular, and if there isn't enough of it, this process isn't as efficient so you get involuntary twitches or weakness occurs in the muscle with impulses firing off inappropriately or inadequately or depending on severity, worse.

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