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I want to talk about two conditions and help you differentiate those two conditions.

This is leg syndrome and nocturnal leg jerks.

Those are two separate conditions.

Let's talk about each one.

First let's talk about nocturnal leg jerks, nocturnal meaning at night, where your legs

are jumping every so often.

They also call that hipnic jerk or myoclonic jerk.

This can resemble if someone startles you and you jump or when you're dreaming that

you're falling and you have this jerk.

Normally I had a dream that someone is throwing a football and I caught it and so my wife

was already up and I just jumped up and I called the football in my dreams.

With nocturnal leg jerks you're going to sometimes get an increased heart rate, you're

going to get increased breathing and you're usually going to wake up.

This usually is a magnesium deficiency.

If you have this, start taking magnesium and also start increasing weaker greens because

that's the best source of magnesium.

You have more salads, things like that.

There's also something called the periodic limb movement disorder.

That's a little bit different and in this condition it's usually something going on with

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