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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