Phosphorus: A key Nutrient to Life: What does Vitamin D have to do with Phosphorus Metabolism?

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

What does Vitamin D have to do with Phosphorus Metabolism?

In asking myself "how is phosphorus metabolism affected by other vitamins and minerals?", I came across this older article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Fujisawa et.al noted in the Role of Change in Vitamin D Metabolism with Age in Calcium and Phosphorus Metabolism in Normal Human Subjects that age-related changes of vitamin D metabolism and its related hormones, immunoreactive PTH (iPTH) and calcitonin(CT) in normal human subjects are observed. While the objective was to assess their roles in the changes in metabolism of calcium and phosphorus with age, the data indicated that change in vitamin D metabolism might play some role in the age-related change of serum calcium and phosphorus levels in children and adults, but that calcium and phosphorus metabolism in the fetus might be regulated by some mechanisms other than vitamin D metabolism (Fujisawa et.al, 1984). So although an older article, it just goes to show that science has been interested in nutrition for quite some time now.

(http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/4/719?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=phosphorus&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT)