Ions {phosphorus, nutrition} can be for energy, bones, and teeth. Phosphorus comes from dairy products, lean meat, and egg yolk. Teeth and bones can have low calcium and phosphorus and cause rickets. Phosphorus is mostly in phosphates. Phosphates act as cell acid buffers, are in bones and teeth, are in ester membrane lipids, transfer in enzyme activation process, aid lipid transport, participate in energy transfers in carbohydrate breakdown and synthesis, enhance anti-oxidants, and are in DNA, RNA, ATP, and coenzymes.
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