Aging Too Early? Blame it on Your Sodas

A new study claims that High levels of phosphate can accelerate the aging process in mice. Soda and processed goods are phosphate rich and can thus have a deleterious effect on health.

High Phosphate levels was also found to contribute to age-associated complications such as chronic kidney disease. M. Shawkat Razzaque, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Medicine, Infection and Immunity at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and his colleagues examined the effects of high phosphate levels in three groups of mice.

Of the three, the first group contained mice which were mutated to remove a gene which controls the phosohate level and thus had toxic levels of phosphate in their body. They lived 8 to 15 weeks.

The second group had the above gene removed along with another gene which when absent at the same time, substantially lowered the amount of phosphate in their bodies and these lived 20 weeks.

The third group were like the second group but were fed a high phosphate diet. They lived 15 weeks.

This proved that high phosphate levels has a toxic effect in mice and may have a similar effect on other mammals including humans.

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