Thinking Nutrition
Thinking Nutrition
Dr Tim Crowe
Pickle juice for muscle cramps: effective remedy or sports myth?
10 minutes Posted Feb 2, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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If you’ve ever been stopped dead in your tracks during exercise by a muscle cramp, you know you’ll try almost anything to make it stop. There have been countless theories and remedies put forward to explain and treat a dreaded muscle cramp, but science still has a bit of catching up to do. But there is one particular treatment that has been gaining traction by athletes as a secret weapon to treat cramps. And it is one that sounds more like a pregnancy craving than a sports supplement: it is p...