Hi Ann.

I'm sorry vegetarianism didn't work for you. I actually got better after becoming a vegetarian, but I put this down to cutting out fish. I relied mostly on pre-made vegetarian products and milk/cheese for protien. Also I've never been on birth control pills or used IUD as I don't believe in either, from a moral or health perspective.

Also I have very rarely worn make-up. I have used henna dyes sometimes, but not regularly. I've always taken the natural approach to life. I don't drink alcohol and have never smoked. Haven't used copperware, but I could well believe I got something from the kettle as I noticed bits of metal in the water once. I didn't drink tea for about ten years as I didn't like it. Have drunk a lot of coffee and coke, though. Didn't take much soya, either.

Tap water and swimming pools could be a problem, though. But I wonder if I could actually have low copper. I took zinc supplement and pumpkin seeds (high zinc) on saturday and yesterday was very spaced out.

But I can't really worry about copper poisoning aswell as mercury poisoning right now, because I've already got a phobia of aluminium and metals in foods. If I worry about any more poisons in foods, I'll end up dying of an eating disorder or something. And, if I did switch to eating meat, it would make me feel so bad and guilty that it wouldn't do me any good. i'd probably vomit it right up.

Sometimes it all gets too much and I honestly feel suicidal, because there is no help and support, and I just don't know what to eat anymore. It's not my fault that they loaded my teeth with mercury as a child, but I have to pay for it in every way, both healthwise and in my lifestyle choices. It's so unfair, but I try not to think like that too much. But it gets to me lately. It seems like amalgam has ruined my whole life.


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Demi: Copper poisoning: water from copper pipes (especially when the ph is low), birth control pills increase estrogen levels thereby increasing copper levels, poor liver function (causes low hormone breakdown, high estrogen, high copper), being a swimmer (copper functions as a fungicide and is added to pools and jacuzzies), copper IUD's, high calcium intake from suppliments and milk products, amalgamfillings with copper, a taste for lots of sugar (excretes zinc, increases copper retention), copper coloured hair dyes and make-up, stress (adrenal fatigue lowers copper excretion, but increases zinc loss), tea-drinker (copper in tea, tea-kettles and the water), cooking in copper cookware, taking multivitamins, and last but not least; being a vegetarian. Almost all the protein substitues such as soy, legumes, nuts and seeds contain very high copper. Also the only highly absorbed form of zinc is from meat. The vegetarian diet often consists of lots of carbs and/or vegetables and fruit. The carbs lower zinc levels because they have a high glycemix index...turns to sugar and contain phytic acid which greatly reduces zinc uptake. The fruit has a high fructose contents....the sugar reduces zinc uptake. The vegetables also contain phytic acid and reduces zinc uptake........needless to say, I regret my ten years of vegetarism.......My supposedly healthy veg. diet has left me low on protein (the sulphur amino acids in meat are essential for making the metalthionine metalbinding proteins for detoxing), low in B vits, low in zinc and low in iron.

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