Where Can I Find Phosporous Supplements?

[mbreslin]

Just finished the book "The 6 Week Cure for the Middle Age Middle", and am getting ready to start the first two weeks, assembling the ingredients and supplements I'll need, such as vitamins, protein powder, etc., but I can't find phosphorous supplements anywhere.

The diet requires 1,000 mcg of phosphorus daily, my daily multi-vitamin Centrum Silver has only 110 mcg. The pharmacy has none and the GNC store has none. Help!

Mike

[razgarcia]

I found it at Vitamin Cottage. There's a store in Albuquerque, NM, but they also sell it online @ http://www.vitamincottage.com/.

Hope this helps.

[Seraffa]

Can't shut my mouth, here. Please be careful with phosphorus. Its a big ol' ingredient in sodas everywhere (the dark ones), and propel one to eat like a glutton if you ingest too much......

[Marti]

mbreslin, I just started also, and gathered most of the supplements last night at Walgreens. Like you, couldn't find phosphorus. I haven't researched all the supplements, but I will be doing that to make sure they can all be absorbed in those quantities. I do know that the body can only absorb 500 mg of calcium at one time. I have osteoporosis and am supposed to take 1200-1600 mg a day. But I take it in 500 mg spread out through the day, otherwise it's a waste of the supplement. And if you bought as many as I did to start this, you are already out a tidy sum just on the Centrum and supplements to make up the difference in the RDI.

[S Bear]

Can't shut my mouth, here. Please be careful with phosphorus. Its a big ol' ingredient in sodas everywhere (the dark ones), and propel one to eat like a glutton if you ingest too much......

Phospohoric acid is a common ingredient in sodas, but I'd never heard the idea that it was the phosphorus in sodas that drive people to eat more.

One interesting sideline, though, is that high fructose consumption tends to result in loss of phosphorus from the body. Therefore, your average non-diet soft drink simulataneously adds extra phosphorus to your diet and then dumps more phosphorus in your urine. What this does to your net phosphorus balance can only be guessed at.

Phosphorus is relatively easy to get--dairy, meat, fish, etc. (Many vegetable sources contain phosphorus, too, but they tend to be in less bioavailable form.)

It isn't one of the nutrients I bother to supplement, and I wouldn't take extra unless I had some reason to believe I was deficient.

[maxlharris]

I question the notion that dark sodas cause hunger and "propel one to eat like a glutton if you ingest too much." I also question the notion that it's the phosphorous. Something peer reviewed in support would be nice. Anecdotal evidence is so, well, anecdotal.