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Pickle juice, the humble liquid inside the jar of gherkins in your fridge, is getting attention on the world stage.When tennis player Carlos Alcaraz won Wimbledon in July 2023, commentators pointed out he was drinking pickle juice during breaks of the grueling almost five-hour final match. Dr. Elliot Tapper, a liver specialist at the University of Michigan Hepatology Program, says his phone “blew up” as it was happening. He's been studying the impact of pickle juice on muscle cramps and has found sips of it can make them less severe. Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine physician at the...…Pickle juice, the humble liquid inside the jar of gherkins in your fridge, is getting attention on the world stage.When tennis player Carlos Alcaraz won Wimbledon in July 2023, commentators pointed out he was drinking pickle juice during breaks of the grueling almost five-hour final match. Dr. Elliot Tapper, a liver specialist at the University of Michigan Hepatology Program, says his phone “blew up” as it was happening. He's been studying the impact of pickle juice on muscle cramps and has found sips of it can make them less severe. Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine physician at the...WW…