ATP

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ATP

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a complex organic chemical that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, e.g. muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis. It is often called the 'molecular unit of currency' of intracellular energy transfer.

Category
Bioactive compound
Molecular Formula
C10H16N5O13P3
Mechanism of Action
ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is produced as an energy source during the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and consumed by many enzymes and a multitude of cellular processes.
Evidence Grade
B

Other Names

  • Adenosine triphosphate

Primary Benefits

  • Energy production
  • Supports cellular functions
  • Muscle contraction

Recommended Dosage

Initial 100-200 mg per day
Maintenance 50-100 mg per day

Side Effects

  • Nausea
  • Fatigue
  • Allergic reactions

Precautions

  • Consult a healthcare provider if pregnant or nursing
  • Not recommended for people with heart disease
  • Monitor blood pressure regularly

Interactions

  • May interact with blood thinners
  • May affect insulin sensitivity

Key References

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249458/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642868/
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 1:48:39 0
“there's the you know a mild MAOI inhibitor which is monamine oxidase inhibitor yeah which going to allow things like serotonin to work a little bit longer in that synaptic Clift um you know and you've expounded way better than I can about serotonin and dop me and how those work but um there is a cognitive enhancement from it for sure it's very real and we have a lot of people using it and love it it also seems to be an antiviral you know you get this again that's probably through the mitochondria making your mitochondria more efficient it's a prescription drug it's a prescription drug but there's there's now and I don't totally understand it there's now strictly over-the-counter neutral supplement options that are methylene blue for sure anyone can go online and buy it for sure trust me now now there there are going to be a few and and you talked about turning your mouth blue if you take a liquid form right uh and we'll do that sometimes in the office when we're doing other treatments we'll give a big dose of methylene blue to kind of help fuel kind of quickly make a…”

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Dr. Peter Attia on Mastering Longevity – Insights on Cancer Prevention, Heart Disease, and Aging
Proactive Health Strategies: Preventing Chronic Conditions Through Lifestyle Choices 1:04:26 0
“The longer a cell can stay in that mitochondrial space the better it is, it makes way more ATP and it accumulates less lactate and hydrogen ion and the more lactate and hydrogen ion you accumulate eventually the cell becomes effectively poisoned by that hydrogen ion and it becomes very difficult for a muscular cell to contract.”

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The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Maximizing Health Benefits with Creatine for Strength, Brain, and Longevity 1:55 0
“it basically increases the ability to produce ATP or maintain it during an exercise session”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 15:48 0
“different models of that so that is a nice foundation for all training really yeah I I love it and and there's a matrix Brewing right now in my head as you go through that so we're going to come and kind of start to fill in some of this Matrix as we go um let's um simultaneously go back to the fundamentals but do so with um without any remorse for how rigorous we need to be that's the greatest setup ever so let's talk about muscles what is a muscle what is the functional unit how does it it generate Force what are the metabolic demands what makes these cells that are so ubiquitous in our body different from say the cells in our liver the cells in our gut the cells in our brain you know what what are these what are these cells that we almost take for granted sometimes all right now you're asking me to do like a two semester course 20 20 minutes look I me I did ask you to do a week in minutes so by that logic we could be here a while but yeah let's see what we can…”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 21:50 0
“that's your little energy boost system now if you had a little bit more um forward thinking you would say okay let me use that match to then actually just light a newspaper if you newspaper or something like that and if you're in the woods papers same thing you get fairly quick light not as fast as a match and it would give you some few minutes of energy doesn't matter what these numbers are it's just conceptual stuff here and that's great that's going to be carbohydrate right so carbohydrate is stored both in the cell as well as outside the cell in three major areas but in in the cell it's going to give you a lot more energy that is your most direct fast sty geometry is a little bit better but not much actually and so you're going to get a couple of moles of ATP per molecule of carbohydrate and that's not it's better but it's like you're sort of splitting hairs here a little bit um if that gets low you can now pull glucose out of the blood and for a little bit of terminology here glycogen in the tissue is what…”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 1:28:30 0
“actually invest in ATP that gives you energy use that energy to that myosin back into place and now it's kind of sitting there but it can't bind strongly until calcium comes into the picture it gets released from the sarcoplasm reticulum that has to come to the equation it has to cause this confirmational change and act in and move these T tubules or that comes from T tubules we move some other things around once those things get moved around by the Cal theas is like oh boom it connects something and then it just almost subconsciously snaps as hard as it possibly can and that's why you can't regulate Force production is like it's just going to catch and snap catch and snap in order for that to go back you actually have to invest more ATP”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 1:29:22 0
“the speed at which you can do that atpa thing that's what determines single muscle fiber contract out speed that's also that mice and heavy chain is what we measure in the lab and that's how we determine fast switch versus slow twitch”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
Unlocking Rapamycin's Potential: Longevity, Health Span, and Future Applications 35:19 0
“there was just recently the first study that I know of that tested a uh ATP competitive mtor inhibitor in mice and it's intriguing I would say early data but we really have no clue as far as I can tell how other classes of mtor Inhibitors would perform relative to rap ayon”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
Unlocking Rapamycin's Potential: Longevity, Health Span, and Future Applications 1:26:43 0
“a catalic inhibitor which is basically a molecule that will compete with ATP which is what mtor uses to do all its business that will literate mtor 1 and M torque 2 activity certainly when given at the right Doses”

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Rhonda Patrick at Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (Keynote Oct. 3rd, 2015)
Optimizing Health Through Micronutrients: Key Role in Disease Prevention 6:02 0
“magnesium is required for over 300 different enzymes in the body and those enzymes include um those that are important for the production of ATP which is the energetic currency of the cell.”

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The Simple Blueprint to Reverse Disease
Optimizing Health Through Natural Lifestyle and Nutritional Adjustments 28:16 0
“creatine is a is a phosphate intermediate you know it's a storage form for phosphate in the body which helps with energy utilization and regeneration of ATP which is our essential fundamental energy currency in the human body”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 21:45 0
“The energy that you noticed is ATP sparing molecule so I'm assuming you're in very good health internally and externally you look amazing but internally we are very good health and so when you're in very good health so most of athletes they have the same exact notice right they notice the increase in energy but it's not a caffeine energy.”

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Heart Surgeon Exposes Why Doctors Are Wrong About Cholesterol (with Dr. Ovadia)
Understanding Nutrition, Metabolic Health, and Disease Prevention Through Podcasts 1:09:34 0
“If we can't move electrons through the electron transport chain efficiently and make ATP, the cell does tend to accumulate metabolites that say, 'I want to become insulin resistant.' It's insulin resistance is a response to poor energy production.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 18:17 0
“metformin again we don't know exactly how it's activating kynise but I think the best evidence is that it's it's a mitochondrial toxin so you're actually inhibiting mitochondrial function and that has the effect of activating AMP kinace as a sensor of ATP and ADP um or AM and ADP so that's probably how Metformin is activating AMP kinace but it's a very dirty drug it does a lot it has a lot of targets and so it could be other stuff that metformin is doing as well”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 1:02:31 0
“what we now know is that there are actually Four signals that the muscle is integrating at the same time this is very different than liver it's integrating protein by sensing leucine, it's integrating growth hormones insulin and igf-1, it's integrating energy ATP and it's integrating stress resistance exercise when all four of those are correctly balanced it triggers mtor and muscle protein synthesis so all of those it's looking at”

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Zone 2 Training: The Science Behind Peak Metabolic Health | Dr Inigo San Millan | The Proof Podcast
Enhancing Metabolic Health Through Exercise: Complete Guide for Beginners 30:53 0
“as exercise intensity increases then the muscle contraction gets faster and stronger so it needs a higher metabolic demand to produce ATP”

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Zone 2 Training: The Science Behind Peak Metabolic Health | Dr Inigo San Millan | The Proof Podcast
Enhancing Metabolic Health Through Exercise: Complete Guide for Beginners 36:27 0
“when you have a high glycolytic flux and you use a lot of glucose the fat disappears for several reasons first because of necessity to produce ATP right at a faster rate in second because the actions of lactate on both adipose tissue and also on on the Transporters for fat so it's a way to to a feed forward mechanism right to to kind of get fat out of the way and say Hey fat you're done your job is done now we go into glucose”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 12:17 0
“so we all eat protein let's say you eat too much protein yeah you know the Porter House steak all right now if you're a bodybuilder those amino acids might go to muscle and you might increase your muscle mass because you're a bodybuilder because you're putting uh excess uh force on those muscles and you're growing those muscles okay but let's say you're not a bodybuilder let's say you're a mmortal like me or let's say you're a kid going through puberty who's synthesizing a lot of muscle not because they're lifting weights because they're because testosterone's making it happen yeah absolutely but let's say you're not let's say you know you're just you know just schlump the the street like uh you know joeo okay and you eat that Porter House you've taken on all these amino acids there's no place to store it other than muscle so your liver takes the excess and deamidates that amino acid takes the amino group off to turn it from a amino acid into an organic acid and then that organic acid can then enter the kreb cycle the tricarboxylic acid cycle what goes on in the mitochondria in order to…”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 52:03 0
“the glucose has to be phosphorated so you're going to lose an ATP in the process so you're going to go ATP goes to ADP and then that ADP will go to a denzine monophosphate which will then go to im an ocol monophosphate which will then go to Uric acid”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 6:55 0
“I think most people hear the word metabolism and they think okay, the burning of energy, maybe they think about ATP, maybe they think about calories in, calories out, that sort of thing.”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 20:31 0
“this is of course caused by the environment and they will actually release extracellular ATP which is not really supposed to go outside of the cell and that creates a massive innate immune response”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 2:04:35 0
“the body makes about 88 pounds of ATP per day for like the average American so we're constantly making it we're constantly recycling it”

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Stay Young Forever: The #1 Thing For Overall Health & Longevity Is This… | Peter Attia
The Key to Longevity: Essential Exercise Components for Aging Well 1:52:03 0
“there are basically two Pathways that we have at our disposal to make ATP ATP being the energy currency that is necessary for every physiologic function”

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333 ‒ Longevity roundtable—the science of aging, geroprotective molecules, & lifestyle interventions
Unlocking Longevity: Advances in Aging Research, Prevention, and Healthspan 2:31:25 0
“there are drugs out there that hit both types of kineses right there are drugs out there that are that are ATP competitive Inhibitors that have different affinities for different types of kinases haven't been tested for longevity these dual kinas Inhibitors right.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Improve Vitality, Emotional & Physical Health & Lifespan | Huberman Lab Podcast
Improving Healthspan Through Lifestyle Choices and Preventive Health Measures 1:06:07 0
“there's a checkpoint inside the bar that basically says do we have too much cholesterol if so spit it out and there's another door that acts more like The Bouncer and he's called the ATP binding cassette G5 G8 and he spits excess cholesterol out and if that system is working fine everything is great but in a lot of people that ATP binding cassette doesn't work very well and it can't properly regulate the total body pool of cholesterol”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 22:58 0
“the poison is elevating those levels which is causing more to go it's actually decreasing ATP in the short run so the cell says man i haven't got enough chemical energy in ATP so that's what forces it to create more mitochondria”

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311 ‒ Longevity 101: a foundational guide to Peter’s frameworks for longevity
Essential Insights on Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 1:08:24 0
“it is abundantly clear is that protein is the macronutrient we should be least flexible on. We can be quite flexible on how much carbohydrate and fat we consume to fill our energy needs, but because protein is not consumed for the purpose of ATP generation, we cannot be too flexible or compromising in our protein requirements.”

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