Re: color of eyes....copper toxicity

[Guest guest]

Funny...I was recently reading of this...I always thought defiency was

more of a problem. Kit

" Cut Out Copper

You can lower estrogen levels by slashing your copper intake. Copper

keeps estrogen levels high. The following foods are high in copper in

relation to zinc. Avoid these until you get your menstrual/menopausal

problems under control:

1. Almonds

2. Avocado

3. Baker's Yeast

4. Bran flakes

5. Brazil nuts

6. Chocolate

7. Crab

8. Grapes

9. Liver

10. Lobster

11. Haddock

12. Herring

13. Mushrooms

14. Peanut Butter

15. Pecans

16. Sesame seeds

17. Shrimp

18. Sunflower Seeds

19. Trout

20. Walnuts

I know you'll have no trouble giving up liver, but chocolate, lobster,

mushrooms and grapes? Sigh.

How do you know if you have too much copper? Brown spots on your face

or skin are a good sign. This means the liver has filtered out so much

copper it is depositing the excess amounts in your skin. If your

nipples turn from pink to brown, that's another sign of copper

poisoning. Of course, a Tissue Mineral Analysis (TMA) is a good way to

know for sure.

Judging from the hundreds of TMAs I've seen in the last five years,

American women are severely toxic with copper. It's my guess this is

why we're having a much harder time with PMS and menopause than our

grandmothers did. We have to get our copper/zinc ratios in balance,

ladies!

How did our generation get so toxic with copper? Birth control, for

one. Copper is a primary component of the Pill since it helps control

the ovulation cycle. Most IUDs are made of copper, too. Today, you

might be using these forms of birth control. But so did your mother!

You might have been born with too much copper to start with. And now

you're adding more! Which means your system may have much more copper

than it needs.

There are other sources of copper poisoning. Copper pipes also leach

the metal into drinking water. If you have a swimming pool, your green

algicide is pure copper. And if you love your copper pots, guess what?

They're seasoning your food, too.

Here are the aches and pain of copper toxicity: frontal headaches,

depression, fatigue, constipation, emotional volatility, weight gain

and food cravings. "

http://www.all-natural.com/wildyam.html

> And how does one get too much copper in their body? Hadn't run into

this before.

>

> Shari

[Guest guest]

Well, from all I know I wouldn't....you've had them all your life?

Or get them from the sun?

Freckles are melanin....skin pigment.

I've got lots of freckles and flat moles (mostly) on my body and,

way back, one of my macrobiotic instructors said they'd disappear on

the macro diet. They didn't for me...but I didn't stay on it that

long and was not super strict. So I don't know if there are schools

of thought that coniders freckles some anomaly.....I think they're

cute. ;-)

And, no, the the old age, liver spots (lipofuscin) are from

glycolysation.....which yeah actually is what we here consider toxins,

alcohol...and,anything that increases the amount and duration of

glucose in the blood means more gycolysation. I saw a paper that also

said artificial sweeteners....but I didn't read it. It's all bit

complex...that biochemistry stuff. ...oh,yeah...also PUFA's (see below)

Below is some stuff I sent to a friend who particularly doesn't want

to age....she's into supplements...so it'll be just some FYI stuff for

you.

http://www.antiaging-systems.com/extract/skinaging.htm

The formation of age-spots, which are the result of lipofuscin

accumulation.

Aminoguanidine

Due to the important role of glycosylation and cross-linking in

causing skin aging, researchers are interested in agents which can

inhibit, modulate and control glycosylation. One such agent is

aminoguanidine. It helps prevent glycosylation-related collagen

destruction (12) and it is used in order to protect against skin

roughness, age-spots, wrinkles and other blemishes.

Aminoguanidine

http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/aminoguanidine.htm

http://www.lef.org/offshoredrugs.html#ami

PUFA = polyunsaturated fat

" Similarity of estrogen and unsaturated fats: promote aging and disease

PUFA'S are similar to estrogen. The information that PUFA's and estrogen

act similarly on the same regulatory pathway is important. Both inhibit

thyroid function, inhibit vitamin E, promote age spots (lipofuscin),

promote clot formation, promote seizures, and impair brain development

and learning. Estrogen, found in birth control pills and in ERT

increases secretion of growth hormone, which, in turn, causes an

increase in free unsaturated fatty acids in the blood. "

" Is their hope after PUFA's?

Yes! It is not the exact amount of unsaturated oils, which governs their

harm, but the amount of these compared to the amount of saturated fats.

Basically, the more saturated fats compared to the unsaturated oils, the

less harm done by the unsaturated oils. The healthiest saturated fats

are coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil.

Some of the toxic effects of PUFA's can be reduced with antioxidants.

Antioxidants might include certain vitamins and minerals (vitamins A, E,

C, zinc, selenium) and antioxidant enzymes, such as catalase. In

addition, thyroxin (inactive form of thyroid hormone) is among the

structural antioxidants, and the known oxygen-sparing effects of

progesterone may make it appropriate to include among the structural

antioxidants. "

http://www.newtreatments.org/fromweb/unsaturated.html

> Thanks, Kit. Do you think freckles fall in this category of

toxicity? And the brown spots you refer to are those the ones folks

call " age spots " ?

>

> Shari