Re: Pau Darco

I know what you mean by the confusing zinc/copper balance. If one or the other is inadequately bioavailable, how do we know if we really are out of balance? What would I even use as a benchmark? I don't ever consider myself "normal" for body weight, body frame, etc.

I feel that I need to continue to research this. I have so many of those symptoms; many of which are also adrenal weakness symptoms. I think I've been under stress/anxiety ever since I was trying to escape the womb. I absolutely know that I have since I was 3 years old. I remember clearly.

Especially concerning is:
"Infections, especially sinus and other fungal infections. Copper imbalance is also very much related to all fungal infections, in particular. These often include common sinus conditions that give few symptoms such as a stuffy nose or post-nasal drip in millions of people. Copper is also involved in acute and chronic candida albicans in the intestines and elsewhere.

Copper is critical for aerobic metabolism, so a copper imbalances allows fungal organisms to thrive in the body and must be corrected to reduce these infections, in most cases. This is why some people simply cannot get rid of candida albicans or chronic yeast, parasitic infections, sinus infections and others."

See? This is me in my childhood; for why else would I be the only person in my family, including grandparents, to be so underweight? I have had to stand in the hall for punishment; because I could just never sit still. This was one form of punishment for kids in the 50s schools.

"Among the boys, symptoms that are most prominent are growth and developmental delay, ADD, ADHD, autism and related brain disorders. Among men, symptoms of copper toxicity, usually, include prostate enlargement, prostate infections and to some degree prostate cancer."

The article does not go far enough, IMO, to describe how to get the copper back in balance and keep it there.