{"id":203796,"date":"2017-10-09T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/5-reasons-your-muscles-are-cramping-all-the-damn-time\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:54:38","slug":"5-reasons-your-muscles-are-cramping-all-the-damn-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/5-reasons-your-muscles-are-cramping-all-the-damn-time\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Your Muscles Are Cramping All The Damn Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"field-body\">\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a marathoner to be painfully familiar with the pangs of muscle cramps. The young, old, active, and sedentary alike are all susceptible to cramps\u2014and they can come when you least expect it\u2014creeping up on you during a sun salutation or disrupting a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuscle cramping is basically an over-activation or contraction of a muscle,\u201d says Houman Danesh<\/a>, M.D. and director of Mount Sinai\u2019s Integrative Pain Management. \u201cAnd although it can happen anywhere, it usually occurs in the calf since that muscle uses the most energy in the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Hit the reset button\u2014and burn fat like crazy with <em>The Body Clock Diet<\/em><\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>But while it\u2019s easy to know when you\u2019re having a muscle cramp, it can be harder to figure out why you\u2019re experiencing one. We talked to Danesh about the surprising reasons why you might be cramping.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to be a marathoner to be painfully familiar with the pangs of muscle cramps. The young, old, active, and sedentary alike are all susceptible to cramps\u2014and they can come when you least expect it\u2014creeping up on you during a sun salutation or disrupting a good night\u2019s sleep. \u201cMuscle cramping is basically an <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/5-reasons-your-muscles-are-cramping-all-the-damn-time\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}