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The main function of phosphorus is forming your bones and teeth. It also helps with:

  • Muscle contractions
  • Normal heartbeat
  • Nerve signaling
  • Using carbohydrates and fats
  • Making protein to grow, maintain, and repair your cells and tissues
  • Making adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that stores energy
  • Speeding the healing process and putting a stop to calcium loss from injury
  • Helping prevent and treat osteoporosis
  • Helping treat or forestall bone diseases like rickets
  • Preventing stunted growth in children
  • Helping break up and carry away fats and fatty acids in your blood, as well as keeping your blood balanced
  • Keeping your nerves from feeling frazzled, and your mind alert and sharp
  • Stimulating your glands to secrete hormones
  • Keeping your muscles, including your heart, contracting regularly and smoothly
  • Helping you digest riboflavin and niacin
  • Helping transmit impulses from one nerve to another
  • Helping your kidneys effectively excrete wastes
  • Giving you stable and plentiful energy
  • Forming proteins
  • Reducing Arthritis pain
  • Fighting cancer

Phosphorus works with the B vitamins, and it needs proper levels of vitamin D and calcium to function properly.

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