[ExI] discovery

[William Flynn Wallace]

The soap is always there unless I forget.  How do I figure out the fumes?

Psychologists in the publish or perish slots come up with theories which
are no better than yours.  Maybe you missed a calling.

You don't like pills, maybe, but most of us are low in magnesium, which
helps with muscles.   And eat a banana for potassium.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZWHGJ4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title
?

  https://www.crampdefense.com/pages/prevent-leg-cramps?

I do at least know what some of my pills are doing - standard go off them,
go back on study.  I am quite sure that some of my money for pills is
wasted, but also sure that some isn't.  bill w

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 5:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…Nobody has any explanation for the soap, but thousands have written in
> about it.  Direct application of the soap to the leg doesn't work.  I think
> maybe that it is fumes coming out of the soap and concentrating under the
> covers.  Just a guess.  If I forget it I get cramps sometimes; get out of
> bed, find the soap, put it in place, and bingo no cramps.  Who knows?
> bill w
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> Ah but professor, that assumes a type of soap which emits fumes.
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> Here’s a way to determine: find out what those fumes are, then see if it
> can be found in another product, see if that works similarly to the soap.
> Or… get a bar of unscented soap, try that.  Or… get a bar of soap and
> another ellipsoid mass of the same size and weight but made of inert
> material, put each inside a sock, put the socks near your bed.  Next time
> you get up with cramps, choose one randomly, record the next day to see if
> it helped the cramps.  It could be that getting up to get the soap is what
> stopped the problem.  The test I described wouldn’t work for me, because I
> seldom have more than one episode in an evening.
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> Regarding the shoe business, consider this possible explanation.  If it
> somehow triggers foot cramps to have the toes… cramped (or bent inward) we
> can ask why doesn’t it cause foot cramps to wear shoes which are too
> short?  Possible answer: those would bend the toes, but once bent, the toes
> fit.  The shoes do not keep pressing.
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> What if a prole gets feverish, piles on the blankets, the weight cramps
> the toes, but after the toes are bent, the weight of the blanket is still
> the same as before, still pressing down just as much, unlike the undersized
> shoes which don’t keep pressing, since they are a fixed size.
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> If that line of reasoning is correct, then wearing shoes to bed supports
> the weight of heavy blankets, allowing the toes to relax, relieving foot
> cramping.
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> Billw, that theory is growing on me.
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> spike
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