Hey there, welcome to paging Dr. Gupta.

Every week you've been sending in questions, things that you're curious about, and I've been listening.

We're digging into the facts to help you understand your health better.

And with that, we'll get to our first question.

Jennifer, who do we have?

Hey, Sanjay.

Our first question is from a 60-year-old

listener named Florence. I'm a physical therapist, and I have been getting

nocturnal cramping in my pronial muscles, sometimes other muscles of my one foot or one leg,

and each doctor seems to just say this is just age.

I'm wondering if you could address this. I hear a lot of this from my patients about night cramps.

It seems like it's something that's just brushed aside as not important. Of course, I've heard

things like eat bananas, take magnesium, take potassium, I've tried those things,

no effect. So I'm wondering if you have any insider research on that. Okay, Florence, thank you

very much. First of all, for those of you who might not be aware, Florence's question is specifically

about peronial muscles. Now, that's a group of three muscles

that run down the outside of your lower leg. Okay, the outside of your lower leg. They help

lift the outside edge of your foot. They provide stability to your ankle. Now, her specific

question is about cramps. We get a lot of questions about this topic

because I think almost all of us have felt this at some point or another.

The scenario is this.

You're lying in bed, maybe even asleep.

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