Also known as phytic acid, “IP6”\u00a0or “myo-inositol.” Inositol Hexaphosphate is a naturally occurring metabolite in both plant foods (whole grains, legumes, nuts\/seeds) and mammalian cells, where it’s synthesized from the dietary nutrient inositol.\u00a0<\/p>\n
IP6\u00a0is\u00a0a chelating agent that can bind to divalent cations such as copper, iron, magnesium, zinc\u00a0and calcium.\u00a0 Thus, it plays paradoxical roles in human health\/nutrition: on the one hand, it can act as an anti-nutritional factor<\/a>, and can reduce\u00a0 the availability\u00a0of amino acids and minerals\u00a0from foods; on the other, it has antioxidant effects, due to its ability to prevent\u00a0iron\/copper-catalyzed formation\u00a0of reactive oxygen species.<\/p>\n IP6 shows promise as an anti-cancer nutrient<\/a>, although human clinical trials are lacking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Also known as phytic acid, “IP6”\u00a0or “myo-inositol.” Inositol Hexaphosphate is a naturally occurring metabolite in both plant foods (whole grains, legumes, nuts\/seeds) and mammalian cells, where it’s synthesized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[115,119,123,249,551,552,561,681,758,759,831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}