Severe Copper deficiency
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I’ve been using copper glycinate at 4mg a day with taurine and magnesium and once a week 100g of liver for 2 months. So far I am getting better and my natural hair color is returning slowly how long should I continue supplementing copper before I create issues with copper toxicity ?
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@cripplejuice 10g cocoa powder keeps copper serum levels up
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@sushi_is_cringe For many years I was consuming liver and potatoes weekly to cure it naturally which didn’t do shit only exacerbated the symptoms so far only thornes copper glycinate helped cure my insomnia, histamine intolerance,anxiety and hair/color loss. I wonder if I should continue supplementing it at 2mg dose a day indefinitely.
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I am not sure about this and others are welcome to chime in to correct me but I have been using serum ceruloplasmin as a marker to gauge my copper status.
As I understand it is hard to find the right dosage for copper supplementation, as you very well know, I decided one day to just incorporate a food to my regular nutrition (or diet though I abhor the word diet) but before I began on one year of eating that food, I took a ceruloplasmin test and it turns out I am on the low end of range, the range being 18-32 (I don't recall the unit).
I ate a small crustacean in the form of a pasty sauce for a year. The crustacean is common in southeast Asia and called by different names. In the Philippines the crustacean is called alamang and the pasty sauce is called bagoong (belacan in Malaysia).
I took the test again after a year, and my ceruloplasmin went up to 31.
Note that Peat recommends shrimp for its copper content. But I don't like farm raised shrimp as it's known for being raised with antibiotics, and I don't like the idea of eating such shrimp regularly. Wild caught saltwater shrimp would be ideal, but they are hard to find nowadays. So I settled for the small crustacean.
