Hypothesis: Does Vitamin D "Deficiency" Protect Us From Phosphorus Overload? 1,25OHD Production Drops by 19pg/dL With Each 1mg/dL Increase in Phosphorus
Image 1: Did you ever take into consideration that your body may refuse to produce vitamin D with good reason? Do you know that? You have an idea, a hypothesis, a stroke of genius, but for whatever reason you don't have access or time to do some research to probe it!? For me that was the case with my "phosphorus <> vitamin D" hypothesis. And in view of the fact that I started to ignore the dozens of weekly papers on the great importance vitamin D, by the means of which their authors obviously hope get their share of the sudden media attention, it took a more or less unrelated post by Mallory Pazdersky on Highbrow Paleo about the paradoxically low vitamin D levels of astronauts to remind myself that I wanted to do some research in this area... and what should I say? It did not take very long to find evidence in support of my theory. Hypothesis: Our bodies reduce vitamin D to cope with the high phosphorus load in our diets Don't get me wrong, I don't ...