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Phosphorus, the Magic Bullet For Fat Loss and Against the YoYo-Effect? P. Restores Thermogenesis, Enhances Satiety

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This is not the first study to suggest that as little as 12.5% of the suggested upper limit for phosphorus can make a big difference when it comes to weight loss and the ease of weight loss when you battle reduced diet-induced thermogenesis & increased appetite. I guess those of you who have been reading every SuppVersity  article will remember my January article "Phosphorus, an Anti-Obesity Agent? 3x375 mg With Each Meal Strip Almost 4 cm Off Obese Waists in Only 12 Weeks" ( re-read it ). You liked that one? Well, I guess you will also like the fact that the evidence that there's some use in phosphorus supplements is accumulating. Recently, scientists from the  Lebanese American University  in Beirut, Lebanon (Bassil. 2016), have observed that "P supplementation recovers the blunted diet-induced thermogenesis in overweight and obese subjects and enhances their postprandial satiety" (Bassil. 2016). Phosphates have also been touted as buffer for athl...
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Phosphorus, an Anti-Obesity Agent? 3x375 mg With Each Meal Strip Almost 4 cm Off Obese Waists in Only 12 Weeks

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You knew that all these fat burning high protein foods are high in phosphorus?! 1 cm per week? What sounds like an advertisement for the next best useless fat burner, is in fact the rate at which the 47 obese, but otherwise "healthy" subjects in a recent study from the American University of Beirut had to tighten their belts (Ayoub. 2015)... Ok, I know that this is not DNP-like earth-shatteringly fast, but in view of the fact that the placebo group had to loosen their belts to accommodate for an additional 0.36 cm increase in waist circumference, it is still quite amazing. I mean, would you have expected that the amount of phosphorus of ca. 300 g salmon would have such an effect if there's no other difference in diet or physical activity between the two groups of overweight participants? If you're looking for a true fat burner, try coffee ;-) For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? Coffee - The Good, Bad & Interesting Three Cups of Coffee Ke...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: The Macro-Mineral Alphabet & the Potential Health Hazards of Diet-Induced Latent Acidosis

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You lose 600x more sodium than magnesium during a workout. The RDA is yet only ~3-4x higher (Montane. 2007). If you already listened to the podcast of yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up (if you have not already done so, you can dowload the podcast, here ), you may have noticed that I confused the minimal potassium (K) to sodium ratio (Na), which is probably ~1:1, and the "original" K:Na ratio in the "paleo diet". According to Sebastian et al. (2002) the latter is ~8-9:1 in other words: 8-9 mols of potassium per mol of sodium. That's miles apart from the 1:2-3 ratio the average Westerner (the exact ratio varies depending on which study you refer to) uses as a springboard to hypertension ;-) The (un-)definite mineral synergism/antagonism chart Another thing you may have noticed with yesterday's show is the fact that the show was pretty "topic centered". My personal feeling is that it has a much better flow ...
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Hypothesis: Does Vitamin D "Deficiency" Protect Us From Phosphorus Overload? 1,25OHD Production Drops by 19pg/dL With Each 1mg/dL Increase in Phosphorus

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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 ...
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