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THE COPPER BRACELET
For Hundreds of years, people have worn copper bracelets and other copper jewelry, such as copper anklets, copper rings and other copper items to help relieve joint pain caused from tendentious and arthritis. This wives' tale has persisted throughout the centuries. Copper works for me, and thousands of people who wear copper bracelets today. Try it for yourself and experience the healing power of Copper
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PROVEN BENEFITS: Promotes normal red blood cell formation. Acts as a catalyst in storage and release of iron to form hemoglobin for red blood cells. Assists in production of several enzymes involved in respiration. Promotes connective tissue formation and central nervous system function. Is used as a nutritional supplement for anyone receiving prolonged feedings through veins or tubes into the stomach. What this mineral does:
Copper is an essential component of a number of proteins and enzymes, including lysyl, hydroxylase, dopamine beta-hydroxylase.1 SPECULATED UNPROVED BENEFITS:
Treats anemia. Protects against cancer. Protects against cardiovascular disease. Reduces inflammation. Helps arthritis.
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COPPER IMPORTANCE: Necessary for the absorption & utilization of Iron; helps oxidize Vitamin C and works with Vitamin C to form Elastin, a chief component of the Elastin muscle fibers throughout the body; aids in the formation of red blood cells; helps proper bone formation & maintenance.
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| Copper In Human Health |
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We Can't Live Without It Copper is one of a relatively small group of metallic elements which are essential to human health. These elements, along with amino and fatty acids as well as vitamins, are required for normal metabolic processes. However, as the body cannot synthesize copper, the human diet must supply regular amounts for absorption.
How Much Copper In Your Body?The adult body contains between 1.4 and 2.1mg of copper per kilogram of body weight. Hence a healthy human weighing 60 kilograms contains approximately a tenth of one gram of copper. However, this small amount is essential to the overall human well-being.
How Does It Work? Copper combines with certain proteins to produce enzymes that act as catalysts to help a number of body functions. Some help provide energy required by biochemical reactions. Others are involved in the transformation of melanin for pigmentation of the skin and still others help to form cross-links in collagen and elastin and thereby maintain and repair connective tissues. This is especially important for the heart and arteries. Research suggests that copper deficiency is one factor leading to an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease.
Do We Get Enough? Until recently, it was generally believed that most people consumed adequate quantities of copper. However, modern research has shown that this is not the case. In the United Kingdom and the United States for example, many typical meals have been analyzed for their metals content. According to recent surveys, only 25% of the US population consume the amount of copper a day estimated to be adequate by the US Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Typical diets in the US provide only about half of this amount and some diets in mainly industrialized countries contain less than 40% of the recommended dietary allowance. In the United Kingdom, it is now recommended that the daily intake should range from 0.4mg/day for 1-3 year old children to 1.2mg/day for adults. In addition, more recent studies are suggesting that there are serious doubts concerning the adequacy of diets containing less than lmg copper/day for adults.
Can We Have Too Much? The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Administration (FAA) are likely to suggest that the population mean intake of copper should not exceed 12mg/day for adult males and 10mg/day for adult females. These are regarded as the lowest intakes likely to produce the slightest biochemical evidence of undesirable effects in all but a small number of members of a population.
Sufferers from Indian childhood cirrhosis or hereditary diseases such as Wilson's Disease retain excessive amounts of copper in the body and suffer from liver damage, often with fatal consequences. The symptoms of acute copper poisoning include nausea, vomiting and abdominal and muscle pain. Excess body copper can be removed by means of specific chelating agents or by the consumption of high levels of zinc.
What Are Copper Rich Foods? Some foods are especially rich in copper. These include most nuts (especially brazils and cashews), seeds (especially poppy and sunflower), chickpeas, liver and oysters. Natural foods such as cereals, meat and fish generally contain sufficient copper to provide up to 50% of the required copper intake in a balanced diet. In addition, a further part of the daily intake in the United Kingdom may be obtained from drinking water transmitted through copper pipes. However in most areas, the copper content of water is not sufficient to provide the balance of the required normal daily intake of this element. In addition, it should be appreciated that some water filters are claimed to remove metals including the essential element copper from drinking water.
Copper In Medicine Copper has been used as a medicine for thousands of years including the treatment of chest wounds and the purifying of drinking water. More recently, research has indicated that copper helps prevent inflammation in arthritis and similar diseases. Research is going on into anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory medicines containing copper, and its use in radiology and for treating convulsions and epilepsy. Although there is no epidemiological evidence that copper can prevent arthritis, there have been claims that the wearing of copper bangles does alleviate the symptoms.
Copper Toxicity Acute copper poisoning is a rare event, largely restricted to the accidental drinking of solutions of copper nitrate or copper sulfate which should be kept out of easy access in the home. These and organic copper salts are powerful emetics and inadvertent large doses are normally rejected by vomiting. Chronic copper poisoning is also very rare and the few reports refer to patients with liver disease. The capacity for healthy human livers to excrete copper is considerable and it is primarily for this reason that no cases of chronic copper poisoning have been reported.
Copper For Health Our daily diet must provide specific trace amounts of copper for a number of reasons in order to maintain human health. Plants and animals also require copper to maintain healthy growth which then benefits humans through the food chain. Copper is readily available in a range of foods and normal balanced diets should provide adequate daily amounts of copper without the need for additional supplements. However, it should be appreciated that changes in eating habits and the introduction of limited medically controlled diets may result in inadequate intakes of copper.
Further Reading "Copper and Human Health and Safety," George A Cypher, International Copper Association Limited, 260 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
"Copper in Human Health," Technical Note TN 34, Copper Development Association, Orchard House, Mutton Lane, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 3AP, UK.
"Copper in Plant, Animal and Human Nutrition," Technical Note TN 35, Copper Development Association, Orchard House, Mutton Lane, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 3AP, UK.
"Copper, The Directory of Nutritional Supplements," The Vitamin Connection, January/February 1992
"Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom - Report on Health and Social Subjects 41," Department of Health, HMSO, London 1991.
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WHERE IS COPPER FOUNDAND MEDICAL INFORMATION
Cu - Copper is found in igneous rocks at 55 ppm; shale at 45 ppm; sandstone at 5ppm; limestone 4 ppm; fresh water at 0.01 ppm; sea water at 0.003 ppm; soils at 2 to 100 ppm
(copper is strongly absorbed by humus; there are known areas of the world with extreme copper deficiency);
marine plants 11 ppm; land plants 14 ppm; marine animals 4 to 50 ppm ( accumulates in the blood of annelids (worms), crustaceans and mollusks, especially cephalopods; land animals at 2 to 4 ppm with highest levels in the liver.
Copper is essential to all living organisms and is a universally important cofactor for many hundreds of metalloenzynes. Copper deficiency is widespread and appears in many forms . Copper is required in many physiological functions (i.e.- RNA, DNA, lysil oxidize cofactor, melanin Production (hair and skin pigment), electron transfer of oxygen sub cellular respiration, tensile strength of elastic fibers in blood vessels, skin, vertebral discs, etc.).
Neonatal enzootic ataxia (sway back, lamkruis) was recognized as a clinical entity in 1937 as a copper deficiency in pregnant sheep. Copper supplements prevented the syndrome which was characterized by demyelination of the cerebellum and spinal cord. Cavitation or gelatinous lesions of the cerebral white matter, chromatolysis, nerve cell death and myelin aplasia (failure to form).
These are all changes identical with human cerebral palsy.
Famous people affected or dying of an obvious copper deficiency include Albert Einstein (ruptured cerebral aneurysms), Paavo Aerola (ruptured cerebral aneurysms), Conway Twitty (ruptured abdominal aorta aneurysm), George and Barbara Bush (thyroid disease, white hair) - four to six of every 100 Americans autopsied have died of a ruptured aneurysm, an additional 40 Percent have aneurysms that had not yet ruptured.
The average well-nourished adult human body contains between 80 and 120 mg of copper. Concentrations are higher in the brain, liver, heart and kidneys. Bone and muscle have lower percentages of copper but contain 50 percent of the body total copper reserves because of their mass.
It is of interest that the greatest concentration of copper is found
in the newborn and their daily requirement is 0.08 mg/kg,
toddlers require 0.04 mg/kg and adults only 0.03 mg/ kg.
The average plasma copper for women ranges from 87 to 153 mg/dl and for men it ranges from 89 to 137 mg/dl; about 90 percent of the plasma copper is found in ceruloplasmin.
Copper functions as a cofactor and activator of numerous cuproenzymes that are involved in the development (deficiency of Cu in the pregnant female results in congenital defects of the heart, i.e.-Kawasaki Disease and brain - i.e.- cerebral palsy and hypoplasia of the cerebellum) and maintenance of the cardiovascular system (deficiency results in reduced lysyl oxidize activity causing a reduction in conversion of pro elastin to elastin causing a decrease in tinsel strength of arterial walls and rup tured aneurysms and skeletal integrity (deficiency results in a specific type of arthritis of the young in the form of spurs in the bones growth plate); deficiency can result in myelin defects; deficiency results in anemia; and poor hair keratinization and loss of hair color. Neutropenia (reduced numbers of neutophillic WBC) and leukopenia (reduced total WBC) are the earliest indicators of copper deficiency in infants; infants whose diets are primarily cows milk frequently develop anemia; iron storage disease can result from chronic copper deficiency.
Menkes' Kinky Hair Syndrome is thought to be a sex-linked recessive defect of copper absorption. The affected infants exhibit retarded growth, defective keratin formation and loss of hair pigment, low body temperature, degeneration and fracture of aortic elastin (aneurysms), arthritis in the growth plate of long bones, and a progressive mental deterioration (brain tissue is totally free of the essential enzyme cytochrome c oxidize). Because of absorption problems of metallic copper, injections of copper are useful.
Serum and plasma copper increase 100 % in pregnant women and women using oral contraceptives. Serum copper levels are also elevated during acute infections, liver disease and pellegra (niacin deficiency).
Accumulations of copper in the cornea form Kayser-Fleischer rings.
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