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<h2>It is recommended that the average adult intake no more than 700mg of phosphate per day.</h2> | <h2>It is recommended that the average adult intake no more than 700mg of phosphate per day.</h2> | ||
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<h5>Phosphate is a <strong>food additive.</strong> The push to reduce sodium from our diets has had our food sources replacing that with phosphate, to ensure taste and preservation. While most people may excrete this phosphate just fine – elderly patients, especially chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients cannot excrete phosphate as effectively.</h5> | <h5>Phosphate is a <strong>food additive.</strong> The push to reduce sodium from our diets has had our food sources replacing that with phosphate, to ensure taste and preservation. While most people may excrete this phosphate just fine – elderly patients, especially chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients cannot excrete phosphate as effectively.</h5> | ||
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It is recommended that the average adult intake no more than 700mg of phosphate per day.
So why does our food have so much?
Phosphate is a food additive. The push to reduce sodium from our diets has had our food sources replacing that with phosphate, to ensure taste and preservation. While most people may excrete this phosphate just fine – elderly patients, especially chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients cannot excrete phosphate as effectively.
Phosphate levels are associated with a slew of cardiovascular and renal complications, with hyperphosphatemia serving as a direct stimulus to vascular calcification in CKD patients. As phosphate begins to build up, our mineral homeostasis goes off course – resulting in capillaries being clogged and our bones breaking down. Currently, there is no point-of-care method for phosphate detection, with blood analysis being the main clinical diagnostic tool. Other biomarker abnormalities like elevated potassium, FGF23, and PTH are also associated with CKD. A weak kidney may lead to other problems like vascular calcification and bone abnormalities – resulting in serious illness and eventually death. After speaking with nephrologists, many CKD patients are diabetic, so glucose is also a valuable biomarker to detect for patient car
