Eating a lot of processed foods with added phosphate might cause your body to absorb too much phosphate, which could harm your health—even if blood tests show your phosphate levels are normal.

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Phosphate and Cellular Senescence.

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2022

This study shows that too much phosphate, even if your blood levels look normal, can damage your cells and speed up aging. It doesn’t matter if the phosphate comes from soda or processed food—it still harms your body at a cellular level.

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Phosphate and Cellular Senescence.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91623-7_7

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If healthy young men eat more phosphate-rich food for just five days, their blood phosphate levels go up—and so does a hormone called iFGF23 that helps control phosphate in the body.

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