Phosphorus
IMPORTANT: See risks section before starting supplementation!
Might be the secret ingredient to Energized health along with magnesium and potassium. Personally I also think calcium is critical.
Farming
"P" from NPK. Found in leaves and rock dust.
They say amount of phosphorus in food is increasing [1] but I have doubts about that.
Health
See also phosphate repletion and parathyroid
Phosphorus is fucking important! [2]
Book the best brain food [3]
Functions [4] multiple sclerosis, magnesium helps preserve it, Kidney stones, constipation
Physiology in the kidney [5]
Phosphorus supplement [6]
Deficiency seen in iron overload [7]
High phosphorus produces iron deficiency [8] is this a good thing for hemochromatosis ?
Cosupplement with calcium magnesium and zinc [9]
Deficiency causes respiratory failure [10] aka sleep apnea
Phosphorus and calcium deplete iron [11]
Ascorbic acid deficiency related to low P [12] but IV vitamin c lowers serum phosphorus, but might it deposit it in bones or intracellularly? [13]
Low levels cause of chronic fatigue [14]
Plastic absorbs phosphate [16] so perhaps that is one way plastic harms health.
Immunity
Immune system [17]
Metals
May interact with arsenic and mercury [19]
Interaction with mercury and parathyroid in the kidney [20]
Deficiency
Symptom workup [21] including acidosis. Also high blood pressure which these two for me tell me that phosphorus is required for the kidney to reabsorb potassium. That would mean phosphorus is needed for the body to be able to hold on to potassium.
Symptoms including chronic fatigue weakness low white blood cells mental effects etc [22]
Low P might cause enhancement of parasites [24]
Common symptoms [25]
Hair testing deficiency related to zinc and cadmium [26]
Dextrose or high blood sugar reduces levels [27]
Poor blood sugar control leading to diabetes [28]
Ten times more likely to have respiratory infection [29]
Hypothyroidism causes low phosphocreatine [30]
Hydrocephalus brain edema [32] [33] maybe strabismus [34] actually strabismus most common in ocular complication of hydrocephalus [35]
Brain swelling encephalitis causes insomnia [36] from sleep center demyelinating from low phowphorus.
Niacinamide intolerance since it lowers phosphorus [37]
7 signs [38]
Phosphate diabetes
Ketones like HMB cause electrolyte loss in kidneys [40]
Diabetes
Insulin causes phosphorus loss from blood and into cells along with glucose [41] so insulin deficiency diabetes may be caused by phosphorus deficiency and the body trying to maintain serum phosphorus.
Bacteria
Intracellular bacteria host entry [42]
Sleep
Deficiency may cause insomnia because phos increases 40% while sleeping [43]
Obstructive sleep apnea correlated with demyelination of respiratory center [44]
OSA correlated with osteoporosis [45] and therefore probably phosphorus deficiency.
Hyper parathyroid and phosphorus linked to insomnia [46]
Kidney
Maintains osmotic pressure so probably important to kidney function [47]
Supports kidney elimination of waste [48]
Nervous system
Component of mylein sheath [49] so probably important in multiple sclerosis
Leukoencephalopathy [50]
Myelin development in child brain [51]
Energy
Works with calcium magnesium and b vitamins [52]
Heart
Myocardial dysfunction [53] and low blood pressure
Deficiency causes heart palpitations [54]
Blood
Increases hemoglobin [55] and ascorbic acid does that too.
Thyroid
It is my hypothesis based on [56] that hypothyroidism may arise due to phosphate deficiency because high thyroid hyperthyroidism promotes phosphorus loss.
Parathyroid
Phosphorus issues may be due to hyperparathyroidism [57] and natural cures might be vitamin d3, biotin, and maybe phosphate repletion
Absorption
Vitamin d potassium and sodium enhance absorption [58]
Research if ascorbic acid does
Utilization
Iodine, magnesium, and zinc needed for utilization or phosphorus is necessary for the utilization of these [59]. I think magnesium is very important to keep from having high phosphorus symptoms during phosphate repletion.
Treatments
Oats and hemp seeds best source [60]. Acidifying probably helpful like eating fruits with the oatmeal to release phosphorus from phytate. Fermentation would also help but may always increase alfatoxin.
Dairy is also high and acidifying it like yogurt is probably helpful.
Sodium phosphate benefits by letting phosphorus uptake via sodium-phosphate channel
Keifer phosphorus from dairy along with microbes helping liberate phosphorus from the calcium phosphate via organic acids.
Dietary fat may help [62] also helps prevent listeria
Sphingomyelin is the main lipid in breast milk [64] body can make from serine and palmitic acid [65] and ATP and COA which is cysteine, pantothenic acid, and ATP [66]. Having proper cholesterol also essential to myelin synthesis [67]
Testing
Elevated muscle enzymes [68]
Risks
Phosphorus can cause or exacerbate cancer in people suseptible [69]. So be very careful supplementing with it. My preliminary experiments indicate that garlic can help mitigate these effects, but there is no conclusive evidence yet. This also means that it is possibly mycobacterium that can cause cancer or tumor growth.
Possible complications of too high phosphorus and calcium supplement fixes it [70]
May exacerbate mycobacterium [71] [72]
In the wrong form, it is deadly to ingest [73]
High blood phosphorus leads to heart attack and stroke so vitamin d needs to be taken to lower blood phosphorus [74] and also taking calcium can lower it
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