Too Much Iron, Not Enough Copper
Too Much Iron, Not Enough Copper
In the past couple of months, I have been using a new scan in my Asyra system
that evaluates the body’s optimal percentage of specific nutrients like copper, iron, vitamin A retinol and magnesium which, in turn, make an enzyme/protein,
ceruloplasmin. This protein is like the school bus that is waiting to carry iron to
the rest of the community (body). Iron is waiting at the high school, tagging the
buildings and causing trouble if it gets stuck there. The ceruloplamin “busses”
won’t run if they don’t have the “gas” created by copper, vitamin A and C and
magnesium.
Stuck iron is toxic to the body. And most people experience fatigue from iron not doing its job.
I’ve started offering a new line of supplements that can assist in balancing these
at optimal levels. This is based on a book by Morley Robbins, “Cure Your Fatigue”, which highlights the need for the right kind and balance of copper, and other co-factors (vitamin A retinol, whole food vitamin C, and magnesium glycinate) that interact with iron and help it to carry oxygen to our tissues so we have good energy.
Then just this past week I read an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola entitled, “The
Silent Epidemic of Excess Iron”, which highlighted the need to be careful about
the amount and types of iron we consume and the dangers of too little and too
much iron in our body.
Mercola writes, “One common cause for iron-deficient anemia is a deficiency in
copper. Paradoxially, lack of copper is also a common cause for iron overload.”
He was interviewing another doctor, Dr. Sutton, who explained:
“The reason for that is because copper is necessary for two key enzymes. The first one is called hephaestin and the second one is called ceruloplasmin. … Copper is necessary for iron to be absorbed in the gut lining. So, without copper, you will not absorb iron and you will develop iron deficient anemia.
“Once iron has been absorbed in the gut lining by hephestin, it passes it off to ceruloplasmin, which is the second copper-rich enzyme. Ceruloplasmin basically then allows that copper to transfer in and then move throughout the body. So without ceruloplamin, iron gets stuck in the tissues. It’ll get stuck in the digestive system … the retina … the brain … the liver.
“So, you develop iron overload in the tissues. … The solution is take copper to fix that problem. That’s the way you solve copper-deficient anemia.
“Copper deficient anemia looks very similar to iron-deficient anemia if you’re looking at the iron panel (in blood). …
“If you have a low or low-normal ceruloplasmin, and then you take copper and ceruloplasmin goes up, that's a good sign that you didn’t have enough copper.”
The best way to get iron is through your diet. Shellfish and beef are iron-rich
foods with highly absorbable iron. The type of iron found in vegetables, such as
spinach, is not very absorbable.
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