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Deficency of Zinc accentuates copper execess 

            Most people have a copper imbalance.  It usually includes having excess, biounavailable and unusable copper in the body.  This must be removed to restore health. 

SYMPTOMS OF COPPER ELIMINATION

Common symptoms when copper pours into the blood stream on its way out of the body can include headaches and skin rashes. The rash can be anywhere on the body, though the most common locations are the face, head or neck.

 One may also feel nausea or bloating.  Some also have a flare-up of an infection, a cold or flu symptoms.

Candida albicans
Another possible symptom has to do with yeast or candida buildup in the body.  This is associated with copper toxicity.  As the copper is removed, usually the candida problem just goes away on its own without any other therapy. 

Symptoms can arise for any of the following reasons

1. The body may not be able to clear or remove it from the blood rapidly enough. 

2. The liver, kidneys absorb so much copper from the blood that they become overloaded and stop functioning properly.  The liver is the usual place this occurs.  
In this case, the person will often feel nauseous, and perhaps will feel some pain or fullness in the area of the liver until the liver recovers. 

3. A deficiency of the copper binding proteins. These are called copper binding proteins.  These grab onto the free or unbound copper in the blood and safely transport it to the liver, kidneys and elsewhere.  

They include ceruloplasmin, metallothionein and perhaps others as well.

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The sulfur-containing amino acids found in eggs and meats are helpful for removing copper, for example.  This is an important reason why vegetarians who do not eat much meat or eggs have much more problems eliminating copper in most cases.  

Adequate adrenal glandular activity may also be required for the liver to produce enough copper binding protein.

If a lot of copper is dumped into the blood at once, the body may not have enough binding proteins available to handle it.  As a result, free or unbound copper floats through the blood, damaging tissues and organs as it does.  A common symptom when this happens is a headache and a skin rash.  

One could also feel nausea for a few hours or even days if the copper elimination is intense.

4. Replacing copper with more healthful minerals in some enzyme binding sites may also cause symptoms. 


6. Copper toxicity is associated with infections of all kinds.  As copper is eliminated, many people experience a temporary flare-up of symptoms related to a cold, flu, sinus condition, or some other infection.


SOLUTIONS
To stop or reduce the symptoms of copper elimination, here are several option

1. Drink 3 quarts or more of steam distilled water for a few days to a week as your only beverage.     

This can be most helpful to reduce stress on the liver and kidneys, and allows the body to move through the copper elimination as quickly and as easily as possible

2. Stop the supplements  This will take care of many copper elimination symptoms.

3. Cooked vegetables  This assists all elimination and replaces more minerals.

4. Stay on the regular diet and add milk thistle, dandelion or burdock root to promote liver activity.  

 Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine or pyridoxal-5-phosphate).  

Sulfur also binds with copper, reducing its toxic effects.  Sulfur is also important for liver detoxification. 

           Zinc.  While zinc is a major copper antagonist, taking more zinc during a copper elimination can cause the body to remove more copper from the liver.  Zinc can replace copper in the liver and elsewhere.  However, this might force more copper into the blood stream, aggravating copper elimination symptoms. Therefore, extra zinc is not usually the best answer.

Diet Tips

• Increase water intake to flush the kidneys and bowels of wastes and acidity.  Introduce herbal Teas such as Peppermint, Ginger, Echinacea, Lemongrass and Fennel are ideal
• Increase the amount of garlic in your diet as garlic and onions as they are antimicrobial due to the sulphur content.  Also include ginger in the diet as it's beneficial to encourage digestion and cleansing and fight the infection
• Have a vegetable juice each day such as cucumber, carrot or celery.
• Eliminate sugars, honey, cakes, breads and chocolate
• Eliminate vinegar, apple cider vinegar, alcohol, wine, bread and yeasts
• Kefir contain live probiotics such as acidophilus and bifidus is also a valuable addition to the diet
• A diet free of yeast and sugar will help your body to fight Candida infection.