Copper to heal your injuries.

[Roke]

According to my source, copper plays a vital role in conditions like arthiritis, osteoporosis, problems with connective tissues and other conditions.

For all of you with rotator cuff pain, back pain, and so forth, perhaps you're underminding the value of a multivitamin containing copper(or just get it isolated).

I personally began supplementing with copper two weeks ago and I feel my rotator cuff isn't as loose, is stronger and also my chronic ankle pain seems to have be relieved moderately. Please look into this mineral as a potential cure for your pains. The following website is an amazing start:

http://www.skinbiology.com/copperhealth.html

And if you hesitate to buy supplements and prefer things naturally, then here are a few sources of copper:



Excllent sources of copper include calf's liver, crimini mushrooms, turnip greens and molasses.

Very good sources of copper include chard, spinach, sesame seeds, mustard greens, kale, summer squash, asparagus, eggplant, and cashews.

Good sources of copper include peppermint, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, ginger, green beans, potato, and tempeh.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...53#foodsources

[Roke]

Copper, Inflammation, and Arthritis

Studies of rheumatoid arthritis and copper exemplify the paradoxes that have so confused research on copper and its effects on various diseases.

In 1885, the French physician, Luton, used copper acetate to treat arthritic patients. He made a salve of hog's lard and 30% neutral copper acetate for application to the skin over affected joints. He also had his patients take pills containing 10 mg. of copper acetate per day.

In 1939, the German physician, Werner Hangarter, wrote that Finnish copper miners remained free of arthritis while they worked in the mining industry. This was notable since rheumatism was widespread in Finland. This finding led Finnish medical researchers to treat patients with a mixture of copper chloride and sodium salicylate. They reported treatment successes in patients suffering from rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, neck and back problems, and sciatica.

Between 1940 and 1970, studies of persons with rheumatoid arthritis found them to have higher than normal serum copper levels. Similar results were found in other various inflammatory diseases in man and animals. (Lewis, Agents and Actions 1984; 15: 513-519) Yet, in seeming contradiction, copper complexes were successfully used in the treatment of numerous conditions characterized by arthritic changes and inflammation. (Sorenson and Hangarter, Inflammation 1977; 2: 217-238). But this use of copper complexes was superseded by the development of anti-inflammatory steroids and aspirin-like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of these conditions.

Subsequent researchers examined this paradoxical role of copper, and they concluded that increase in serum copper is a physiological response to inflammation, rather than a cause of inflammation. (Sorenson, J Pharm Pharmac 1977; 2: 450-452) The rise in serum copper is due to an elevation of the protein ceruloplasmin in serum, but ceruloplasmin has strong anti-inflammatory activity and tends to counteract the inflammatory state. (Frieden, Clin Physiol Biochem 1986; 4: 11-19) Further research established that copper deficiency increased the severity of experimentally-induced inflammation. (Sorenson and Kishore, Tr Elem Med 1984; 1: 93)

Professor John R. J. Sorenson (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Pharmacy) has led the scientific work on the use of copper complexes to treat patients with arthritic and other chronic degenerative diseases. He has found that the copper complexes of over 140 anti-inflammatory agents, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, for example, to be far more active than these compounds without copper. Copper aspirinate has been shown to be more effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis than aspirin alone. It also has been shown to prevent or even cure the ulceration of the stomach often associated with aspirin therapy. Sorenson has reviewed a wide variety of of copper complexes that have potent anti-inflammatory activity when administered to humans or animals; his review is 110 pages long and with a bibliography of 736 references. (Sorenson, Prog Med Chem 1989; 26: 437-568)

Copper and Osteoporosis

200 years ago, the German physician Rademacher established that copper supplements speeded the healing of broken bones in patients. (Dollwet and Sorenson, Tr Elem in Med 1985; 2: 80) In the years that have followed, compelling evidence has established a vital role for copper in the biosynthesis of bone and connective tissues and their maintenance.

Inadequate dietary copper causes osteoporosis in numerous animal species and humans. (Dollwet and Sorenson, Biol Tr Elem Res 1988; 18: 39-48) Copper deficiency is associated with scoliosis, skeletal abnormalities, and increased susceptibility to fractures. (Worthington and Shambaugh, J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1993; 16: 169-173) Danks. Copper Deficiency in Humans. In: "Biological Roles of Copper." CIBA Foundation Symposium-79. Exerpta Medica, Amsterdam, 1980. p. 209) Inadequate dietary copper lowers bone calcium levels. (Strause, P. Hegenauer, R.C. Saltman, et al, J Nutr 1986; 116: 135)

One study of elderly persons found a decreased loss of bone mineral density from the lumbar spine after copper supplementation of 3 milligram daily for 2 years (Conlan, et al. Serum copper levels in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures. Age and Aging. 1990; volume 19: pages 212-214)

Healthy adult males on a low copper intake of 0.7 milligrams daily for 6 weeks exhibited an increased rate of bone resorption (breakdown). (Baker. et al. Effect of dietary copper intakes on biochemical markers of bone metabolism in healthy adult males. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1999; volume 53: pages 408-412)

Copper and DHEA

http://www.skinbiology.com/copperhea...nd%20Arthritis

[whitedime]

ginger also aids digesting for you guys that are gassing it up after all that protein.

[Ironite]

Thanks for the info bro.....