Endurance evidence brief
Sodium phosphate loading is a pre-event strategy intended to influence oxygen delivery and buffering. It is marketed mainly for endurance performance.
Phosphate loading has a plausible oxygen-delivery rationale, but modern performance findings are inconsistent and less useful than better-proven endurance aids.
Reviews and cycling trials are mixed; plausible oxygen-delivery mechanisms have not produced reliable modern outcomes.
Loading protocols are short-term, sodium-heavy, and event specific; they are not daily supplements.
Phosphate dose, sodium load, renal considerations, and event-specific claim wording are central to product judgment.
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