robinhood12345
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Dietary copper deficiency is extremely common. I have uploaded an image with some of the copper enzymes, and the symptoms that copper deficiency produces. Copper deficiency is found commonly in schizophrenia, alzheimers, heart disease, and a lot of other problems.
Copper toxicity does not exist except in the rare genetic diseases Wilsons disease in which they can not export copper properly from the cell. The idea of copper toxicity is promoted for money.
Best, easiest to get food source of copper is oysters with 17-70mg per 100g. Squid, and octopus livers, and digestive glands have 200-1000mg or more copper per 100g. Most fish places sell those animals once they have been "cleaned" which means the organs have been removed though some places sell them whole. Beef liver has around 5mg per 100g, sesame seeds, and brazil nuts 2mg per 100g.
Best copper supplements are chlorophyllin which is copper instead of magnesium containing chlorophyll. These usually have 2-4mg copper per serving. The copper in them is chelated in the porphryin ring like magnesium in natural chlorophyll so is well absorbed. To make it they extract chlorophyll magnesium from plants then react it with copper, and the copper replaces the magnesium. It is used as a common food additive to change colour, and flavour, and mass produced so maybe it is cheaper for the supplement companies to have copper chloro in their supplements than mag chloro.
Other forms are copper glycinate or copper EDTA. Copper gluconate is not as good as those forms as the chelate will break in water.
Copper toxicity does not exist except in the rare genetic diseases Wilsons disease in which they can not export copper properly from the cell. The idea of copper toxicity is promoted for money.
Best, easiest to get food source of copper is oysters with 17-70mg per 100g. Squid, and octopus livers, and digestive glands have 200-1000mg or more copper per 100g. Most fish places sell those animals once they have been "cleaned" which means the organs have been removed though some places sell them whole. Beef liver has around 5mg per 100g, sesame seeds, and brazil nuts 2mg per 100g.
Best copper supplements are chlorophyllin which is copper instead of magnesium containing chlorophyll. These usually have 2-4mg copper per serving. The copper in them is chelated in the porphryin ring like magnesium in natural chlorophyll so is well absorbed. To make it they extract chlorophyll magnesium from plants then react it with copper, and the copper replaces the magnesium. It is used as a common food additive to change colour, and flavour, and mass produced so maybe it is cheaper for the supplement companies to have copper chloro in their supplements than mag chloro.
Other forms are copper glycinate or copper EDTA. Copper gluconate is not as good as those forms as the chelate will break in water.
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