I read this tip years ago in a similar social media comment on a similar meme.

It really works, this trick basically changed my life. Highly recommend.

Or salt.

Or potassium.

Or water.

Problem

It is generally understood that human beings are carbon-based organisms, fusing little carbon tubes together to form complex, mushy structures capable of thought, love, and locomotion. It is also known that these structures sometimes like to “take the edge off” by consuming ethanol, amphetamine, etc. In such cases, it is important to supplement your body with magnesium. Tired? Mag it! Down? Mag time! Liver damage? MAXIMUM MAG! Some people say magnesium doesn’t really do anything and you just need to quit. What do we tell them?

Solution

We tell them: HELL NO. You’re about to become a magnesium-based lifeform. The age of the primitive carbon-man is done. No longer must mankind rely on slow-working background radiation to take us further into our genetic destiny. This is the era of guided evolution, and magnesium is the key. You are the first of your species. The next step in human evolution. An advanced magnesium proto-man who mags it up, drinks it down, and sniffs it sideways!

0mg!

Yeah I have always found that standing up stops the cramp better than anything else. I heard it was like handing over the controls to your central (or maybe peripheral?) nervous system and letting that higher authority override the cramp by deciding that maintaining your balance while standing up is a higher priority. Then you can safely stretch and get hydrated after that.

I have jumped out of bed in a panic many times and it has worked every time.

YES flex that foot! Just grab it with your hands and dorsiflex it hard, and it resolves quickly.

Those don't even really hurt, there more of just annoying for a while.

Are you still in your 20s?

You've never gotten a charley horse? It's not at all like a period cramp, very sudden and exquisitely painful, and quickly resolved.

You probably drink an adequate amount of water

My friend, up your magnesium!

Sodium, too, if you do a lot of home cooking that tastes bland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_muscle_cramp

To prevent them, like most things; eat a healthy balanced diet with lots of vegetables, and exercise.

But if that's too much effort, drink some electrolytes.

Magnesium. (prevents, not causes)

I've also heard that tonic water with quinine will stop cramping pretty much right away, though I haven't tried it personally.

I had it happen in my thigh not long ago.. that was weird

If your electrolytes are balanced, you shouldn't get cramps. Cramping is caused by not having enough potassium, which is used by your nerves to signal relaxing muscles. Sodium is used to signal clenching. Too much sodium for the potassium and the signals get unbalanced and you can't relax that muscle.

Magnesium and calcium also play a role and deficiencies can result in cramping or tremors (like unsteady hands might just be from being low on Mg, Ca, or K).

So it seems like you've been eating well at least as far as electrolytes are concerned, especially if you can hold your hand out rock steady, regardless of whether your muscles are clenched or relaxed.

Eat a whole turkey and see what happens. Glaze it, even

Are you an LLM with only a 10 token context window? Or doing that thing that humans do when their brain blood escapes its brain blood tube and becomes a brain blood pool or has trouble making it to all the brain cells because the brain blood tube is too full of non-brain blood things?

Either way, thanks for the moment of amusement I got trying to parse the combination of words you used in the order you used them.