I think conditioning well enough to avoid cramp vs. be a "champ" are likely entirely different matters. Do you know of any research that indicates there's a genetic propensity for getting cramps? Honest question, I've never come across anything like that.

What I like aboutMoAlpha post is that he's very clear that this is an as-yet unproven theory and that he's pointing to a couple of remedies that "might" work that have the decided advantage of being harmless. Like I said above, my concern with these threads comes in when people start advocating non-food electrolyte supplementation, which won't affect cramping and really could make a person sick, likely not seriously, but who needs diarrhea,etc.?