So I have been taking the Mitosynergy for a couple of days now. I started with half a capsule of the Extra Strength, which is actually not that much, since one capsule only contains 0,5 mg of copper but I guess since it is extra bioavailable, more gets absorbed, and low and slow is always best with introducing new supplements (not that I ever followed that route).
The next day I took a whole capsule. At the same time (because I am not always the smartest and most patient) I also started taking Spirulina (also high in copper). I do feel quite good. Which to be honest, intuitively I would rather give the Spirulina the credit for. To me it still makes more sense to get nutrients from food (even if it is a strange kinda food like a blue green algae) instead of supplements. Although I dig the Mitosynergy approach because their copper is super bio-available (but also soo much more expensive than Spirulina, and it it doesn't contain all the other good nutrients that Spirulina provides). I am still taking my zinc (apart from the copper, since they are antagonists). I am currently looking into TRS which is a nano-zeolite spray, said to be VERY effective for heavy metal detox. The internet is full of positive reviews (although some also claim it's a scam). But being me I will give it a try of course! From the same company I also ordered a new hair mineral analysis test (strangely hard to get one here in Spain), so I am curious. I still need to get my zinc, copper and ceruloplasmin levels tested though. Tried to get zinc sulfate at the pharmacy here but you can't get it without a doctor's prescription. Geez, c'mon Spain! My mind is pretty calm though at the moment (not much overthinking, or racing mind), meditations are pretty good. I have some dream recall. Learned today about taurine and that it helps the body absorbing Magnesium (as well as B6). Maybe a reason why for the past years I always had to take my daily magnesium, and I seem to waste it a lot. So when you are deficient in taurine, the kidneys just dump the magnesium. You get taurine mainly from fish and meat (hello, vegan years!) but the body can also produce it (if all goes well, which as we know is usually not the case if you are heavy metal toxic). Not sure if I get me some taurine, it is also important for the production of ceruloplasmin, so might be good. I also read that babies who aren't breastfed don't get enough taurine, that's why they add it to baby formula (I wonder if they did that already in the 80's when I got baby formula). Nutrient deficiency -> lower detox. One thing I noticed is that my heart palpitations are back a little. Didn't have those in a loooong time (the last time in my fruitarian days so I thought it is related to low sodium maybe?). I crave sodium still A LOT, and I wonder if my kidneys are also still salt wasting. I noticed whenever I get a hot flush of the face (usually around mid-day when I feel worst) it sometimes helps to drink a glass of water with a tsp of salt. Adrenal cocktail style I guess. But yeah, I noticed that I usually feel worst between 1 and 4 pm, and then after my mood gets better. The organ clock says it is the time of the small intestines from 1-3 pm so that makes sense (SIBO). I wonder if the SIBO will sort itself out once all the metals are detoxed. Then the stomach acid production should be better too. Maybe a fast will help once I am more detoxed. The only time my face was zero red was after a 5 days water fast. That's the latest news.
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More and more I come to the conclusion that it might be copper that is the missing link. So many pages and people speak of copper toxicity that we do a lot to avoid this mineral. But it is crucial for many many things in the body, and actually our soils are depleted and most people don't get enough copper in their diets. Best bioavailable copper sources after all are organ meats and shellfish. Now tell me how much of those do you regularly eat? (Maybe that is the reason why my dad at 72 years still has full brown hair and looks super young - he basically lives off shellfish, no kidding).
I came across this wonderful article . Copper is needed for so many things. The copper levels rise during pregnancy or infections for example. Which might mean it is needed during those times, and get depleted if we don't consume enough copper. This is why women on the birth control pill (which basically fakes a constant pregnancy) deplete copper like crazy. Environmental stress etc all depletes your copper. I find it interesting that ancient cultures like the Egypts and in Ayurveda drinking out of copper vessels was highly practised. Copper is linked to higher spirituality. Wearing copper bracelets apparently is a way to treat arthritis. So why then is there such high levels of copper toxicity which produces mental disturbances? On an urine provocation test with DMSA 10 years ago I excreted a LOT of copper. When we are deficient in copper we cannot produce enough ceruloplasmin (and lots of other things) that help us using copper. So the inorganic copper we ingest (from amalgam fillings which contain copper, or copper pipes) cannot be used and gets stored in the tissues creating havoc. Then we have the paradox of copper deficiency and toxicity at the same time. We need proper levels of zinc and copper. For example to have enough metallothionein which is important to protect the body of heavy metal toxicity. A metallothionein deficiency is suspected to be a big cause of autism. But still the treatment is mostly zinc supplementation. Sure, metallothionein consists of more zinc than copper atoms, but still, one needs to keep a good balance. Shellfish and organ meats like liver contain both zinc and copper. Our ancestors knew that those were the best pieces of the animal to eat. These days hardly anybody eats them anymore as our taste buds changed. So after reading lots and lots, I ordered me a Mitosynergy sample as well as a "normal" copper supplement. I wonder if the Mitosynergy really is so much better than a regular copper supplement or if it is just clever marketing. It is super expensive. For the past days I had been taking my Spirulina powder which had been sitting on my shelves for a couple of months. I dreaded the awful taste and then I read it contains a lot of copper and I should avoid copper blah blah. Well with my new knowledge about the importance of copper I finally took it, starting out with half a teaspoon in water. It tasted like water, and actually not bad. And I don't know if it was the Spirulina but soon after I had a rush of energy and my mood lifted. To be honest, I am pretty sure it is the Spirulina. I have been taken it since then and find that my energy levels and mood improved. Is it the copper? Who knows, Spirulina contains many many good things. And actually I would prefer taking this rather than buying overpriced synthetic pills. My blood test results came in too btw. My doctor says all is well, and it doesn't look too bad indeed. My TSH for example got down from over 5 last year to 2.47. Unfortunately the regular doctors don't know and test for ft3 and ft4 so I don't know those levels (yet). Vitamin B 12 and Folic Acid were perfectly in range. Iron was on the lower range but still in range (but we know that the range is usually made wider than it should be). Sodium and potassium were both in range. In the past my sodium had always been low with potassium high. Interesting (regarding the copper) is that my neutrophil percentage is low. The neutrophils are in range but the percentage is low. I need to find out more about this. Low neutrophils are a sign for low copper. I am looking for a private lab here at the moment to test more things, mainly zinc, copper, ceruloplasmin, free copper, homocysteine, iodine, selenium, ft3 and ft4. This morning I took my first Mitosynergy (half of an Extra Strength capsule. They are actually quite low dose, the Extra Strength contains only 0,5 mg of copper but I guess it has higher bioavailability). I will report but I have a feeling I will stay on the Spirulina for a while :) Family Constellation Since that family constellation I am having lots of dreams with my mum, and nice ones. Where she is normal, healthy, cleaning out her house. I was cutting her hair in my dream last night and complimented her on how good it looked. 2 days after my session I had called her (it had been 3,5 months since my last call) and we chatted for an hour! She was in a good mood really and asked about my life. Seriously one of the best talks I had with her over the past years (decade?). Even though everything was pretty profane but it had been so different to our usual phone calls. Pyroluria Treatment I am still taking moderate doses of the zinc and P5P, especially since I started reading about the copper connection. I am still waiting for my copper supplement to arrive. Something makes me wonder if copper deficiency could actually be the cause of Pyroluria. And the body is eliminating the zinc to keep the ratio more normal. Same with the potassium/sodium ratio, when the body is salt wasting because the potassium levels are so low. It all comes down to nutritional balancing really, doesn't it. Potassium and copper rich diets are mainly plant based diets. I think that is where many vegans are right. But why go all the way vegan? Plant based with a bit of animal products seems the best diet. Anyway. Did I see improvements? I still have very little appetite, which might be because a) I kinda eat very low carb at the moment (I don't really know why) or b) because my zinc gets lower despite taking zinc supplements in high doses because that can actually deplete zinc. What? Yes, because apparently the zinc is used to produce more metallothionein. Metallothionein (MT) dysfunction might be a primary cause for autism. MT proteins are chains of amino acids in the brain, skin and GI tract. They are important for:
So once you start supplementing zinc in high doses, the MT function gets increased and eliminates the high copper levels in the body, but at the same time it is also taking zinc with it (since it is made of 7 atoms of zinc). So maybe a reason why many people supplement with zinc but cannot raise their levels substantially. And this is where I came across this lady: In her case, she took many months high doses of zinc but couldn't really raise her levels. Until she started taking copper. So maybe she lowered her copper levels with those high doses of zinc but to me it just shows that the balance is so important, and why I don't like taking single nutrients. The usual statement for Pyroluria is that it causes copper toxicity, and that zinc and B6 bring it down. But you can be copper toxic and deficient at the same time! Probably similar to the B6 (I had sky high levels of B6 in my blood which just shows that my body couldn't really use it). What is needed to use copper and make it bioavailable? Ceruloplasmin, which requires certain nutrients, and also: copper. This is where Mitosynergy comes into play who claim that they produced the world's first bioavailable copper. Now the lady above used a simple amino acid chelated copper. People in India drink out of copper vessels to improve their health. Apparently the soils are so depleted that many people actually are copper deficient! So you guessed what I did. I ordered the MItosynergy (a sample first because it is bloody expensive) but also after more research, I ordered a simple chelated copper supplement as well as liquid chlorophyll which seems to be the most natural route to get in copper. So maybe if you get enough copper, you don't get easily deficient in zinc because it helps your body absorbing it better. It basically all comes down to eating a whole food nutrient rich diet high in greens (high in copper and zinc), or organ meats (also high in copper and zinc). So far I didn't see many other improvements of my Pyroluria supplements. Some days my scalp is less itchy, but actually for a while my nail beds got pretty worse. So I seem to be still very deficient in zinc. Oregano Oil for Candida Cleanse Another thing I started is taking Oregano Oil again, to reduce the Candida (and whatever parasites I might have). Geez, the first days my Candida was not happy. I got a massive thrush and expelled a lot of stuff (sorry TMI?). I also got bloated like 9 months pregnant. But I know, this is from the die-off. Dying parasites produce a lot of air. Die, buggas, die!! I rub my belly with peppermint essential oil and that often helps a bit. It is day 4 or 5 now and I am still bloated but I will give it 60 days. I am taking the extra strength Zane Hellas oregano oil. I stopped taking the Saccaharomyces Boulardii after 2 days only because it made me feel more yeasty. But I guess that might have been just a cleansing reaction too. So for now I stick to my good old oregano oil because that is a good anti-everything (bacteria, yeast, viruses). I really need to up my probiotic game though. I used to eat sauerkraut regularly but stopped. It is so important to get probiotics in daily. I also make my own kombucha but it's not fermenting too well (maybe it had been too cold still). I let it sit for a month and it gets quite sour but it still tastes a bit sweet too. Maybe I should switch to kefir again, that worked better. Yesterday was the first day in quite a while that I felt mentally a bit better and motivated. (Candida btw is closely related to copper imbalance. Copper is antifungal. Did I mention I am looking forward to trying my copper supplements!?). Other than that I had taken a couple of days off the iodine and selenium but now I am back on thyroid support, with my Raw Thyroid supplement. I also want to go back to doing yoga. I feel the gym and the weight lifting might not be beneficial for balancing female/male hormones. I found a beautiful channel about PCOS the other day: Although it is quite hard sometimes for me to listen to her, I think she has an important message. I should cultivate more my feminine energies.
What diet is she promoting? Fruit, vegan, Dr. Morse style. Potassium. Is anybody eating enough of this? So there had been studies showing that certain individuals (like in the autistic spectrum or ADHD) show improvement to sensory overstimulation when given potassium supplements. Channelopathies are disturbances in the function of ion channels used for proper mineral transport. These disturbances can be congenital or acquired (toxicity). So if your whole mineral transport system is off (plus if you are eating a shitty diet low in minerals in the first place), it's a recipe for disaster. Well, that's nothing new really. I just stumbled upon the connection of potassium in a Pyrolyria forum. I copy a bit here: Potassium deficiency has deep and far-reaching consequences. Maybe a reason why the high potassium (raw) vegan diets are so healing. I recently made a big effort to eat more veggies, and I had eaten already more than the average person before. I am even considering adding beans back to my diet. My last attempt of going vegan (high carb) started with good energy and great mood and ended in depression. Maybe it's the lack of Omega 3s. Maybe it is the body cleansing. I remember when I first went raw vegan years ago, the first 3 months I had lots of skin rashes, diarrhea at times and yes, depression. But then my mood lifted. Changing the gut biome takes time. I quote further: Here's what I think has been happening: In the presence of low potassium, my body has been excreting sodium, in order to keep the ratio closer to where it should be. This would explain the persistent "idiopathic calcium" I seem to excrete in my urine (the body will excrete calcium whenever it excretes sodium). Hmmm ... sending sodium and calcium to the kidneys all the time, might that set me up for anything? ... And if you're wondering: yes, I have kidney stones on both sides of my family. In blood tests I always had high potassium and low sodium. My blood pressure was always more on the low side. When I went raw vegan (no salt) I often felt dizzy and lightheaded. I have a strong appetite for salt and often feel like I am salt wasting. I have a feeling many of my issues stem from adrenal issues.
I was wondering if I should keep up my high salt intake. Maybe my need for sodium would reduce once I up my potassium, like the woman above posted (yes I also excreted high amounts of calcium in tests years ago). Which brings me back to high carb low fat low sodium veganism somehow..... :D Aaaah, diet. One of my favorite and least favorite topics. What is the best way to eat.
As somebody who has struggled with eating disorders in the past, who had done junk food, vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, paleo, autoimmune paleo diets, intermittent fasting, water fasting, high carb low fat, high fat low carb, fruitarian and what ever way of eating out there exists - you would think I would have figured out by now what works. I haven't. Here is the thing: I would LOVE if veganism works because yes I have compassion for animals. On the other hand I understand that pure veganism doesn't really work either for the agriculture. It is a symbiosis of plants and animals that create a nourishing food industry. YES we need the poop of the animals to fertilize our soils! Does that mean we also have to eat the animals? Well that is a different question, but if everybody now goes vegan and we need to produce even larger amounts of grains, maize, soy etc, that won't solve the environmental problem. So for the environment it doesn't matter if you are vegan if you are not eating local or tons of tofu etc. Health wise I do believe plant based diets are best. Plant based meaning a TON of vegetables. That is something I can agree on. When it comes to the rest, I am still a bit unsure. 100 % veganism seems unnecessary extreme. Why not include small amounts of animal products (as most longevity cultures actually do), just to make sure you get all those nutrients that are needed. Maybe you can get all of them on a vegan diet, but is there really an advantage of 100 % veganism? Then there is the question of high carb or low carb. Both have their followers claiming it works for them. I must admit there are two youtubers especially who seem to thrive on a 100 % vegan plant based high carb diet, Derek Simnett and Lilykoi Hawaii. These two look very healthy to me. But then again, youtubers. Lilykoi recently made an amazing video about the latest vegan youtuber Rawvana and Raw Alignment who stopped veganism due to health issues. Those claimed to thrive and feel healthy. Apparently they didn't. Good camera light and being skinny doesn't mean you are healthy. Whereas I must say I don't have the feeling Lilykoi or Derek are faking anything. They are well educated about nutrition, eat plenty of healthy calories and seem in good health. Though Lily did mention anxiety issues in one of her videos. So my question is, is well-planned veganism working for everybody? For example in the case of mercury toxicity? What about Pyroluria? Diet is such a confusing topic. For example, I have a friend with MS and she manages it brilliantly with diet and yoga and exercise. The diet she follows strictly avoids saturated fats and is more high in carbs. It works well for her and many others. Then there is Terry Wahls, an MD with MS who beat her disease with a more paleo style diet high in saturated fats and low in carbs. Who is right? Both of course. Does that mean Terry would do not so well on a high carb no saturated fats diet, and vice versa? Or does that mean that you can chose either or, and your body can work with both? You just can't mix both of them it seems. High carb and high fat doesn't seem to go so well. Then there is Alberto Villoldo who claims that the limbic brain (based on the Triune brain theory by Dr. MacLean) feeds on sugars and is responsible for the fight flight reactions etc. It seems outdated because humans have developed a newer part of the brain that thrives on fats and which is more connected to spirit etc. Makes sense too. We are no apes who just feed on fruit, we developed more capable brains and that is probably due to higher amounts of fats in our diets. But apparently the Triune Brain theory had been too overly simplistic. I need to go to work now (meh), so Part 2 will follow. Please feel free to comment though what you think is the best diet because I am really interested about other's opinions. For some time I tried to tell people I cured my autism! And well, the worst part of it I did leave behind. I can communicate, I can look people in the eye, I can interact normally. In my early teenage years (soon after my amalgam fillings) I was pretty strongly "sedated".
But many people would claim I always had Asperger's Syndrome and just got better in coping with it over the years. And that might actually be true. The reason why I am bringing it up is because today I learned that Greta Thunberg has Asperger's. I didn't know that before. Reading about her and her description I just get reminded of myself. Apparently she also has selective mutism. Which is a ridiculous side-diagnosis that could just be put under Asperger's. But hell yes, that's me too. I don't talk when it's not necessary. I don't really care that much about social interaction, in fact I don't enjoy it much. I often find it a waste of time, chit chat and all of that. I like deep conversations about the topics I am interested in (mainly natural healing). Since I haven't quite found somebody like me, I mostly stay alone. I love researching for hours. I am the invisible girl as Great says about herself. BUT I am still trying to figure out the whole autism and asperger story and I strongly believe it can be "cured". Many Asperger people claim they don't need to be cured, they are just different but content with the way they are. Fair enough. But many of them suffer from depression, social anxiety and other health issues. Some people like Dave Asprey claim they cured their Aspergers with their diet and other health methods. Many autistic kids "awaken" when treated for gut imbalances and heavy metals. There definitely is a connection, so that makes me wonder about Asperger's. It doesn't make sense that nature produces anti-social humans. But then again, maybe at this time of humanity, it all makes perfect sense, and those extra-introspective human beings are the ones who will make a change. Like Greta. But still. Greta suffered from depression. She might likely have Pyroluria and copper toxicity (one theory for Asperger's). Which also fits that she is a vegan now (for the environment, but many Pyrolurics are drawn to vegetarian diets due to a lack of stomach acid. Copper rich vegetarian diet make Pyroluria actually worse though). Apart from the fact that veganism isn't saving the planet in my opinion, I am also not convinced anymore that is is healthy in the long run. We have an epidemic of Autism and Asperger's. What happened!? Increased toxicity, depleted soils leading to nutrient deficiencies? In any way, yes I probably still belong very much to the Asperger spectrum. I never got a diagnosis even though I tried when I was in my early twenties. I learned that it is harder for females to get diagnosed because we are so much better in coping and pretending and girls are naturally seen as more quiet. But I know that I have always felt different, that I always wondered about the rules of social interaction. That I never cared about my clothes and wear the same sweater every day. That I don't give care about chit chat. That noise and groups overwhelm me. That I rather focus on my special interests. I feel it might be time to fully accept my difference and embrace the qualities that come with it. Yes it is not always easy being so different, and yes I do get lonely. I want social interaction and I don't want it at the same time. I hate feeling frozen and unable to speak in certain situations. At the same time I find it massively interesting. So I did the 23andme test some years ago, and found out that I have 10 % Italian blood plus a bit of Iranian roots which was very interesting as my mother had been adopted, never found out where she came from and she (and me) looks everything but German. But of course I was more interested in my health regarding results: My detox panel doesn't look too bad: While the Methylation panel was quite a bit more red: I tried to learn and study as much as I could (as much as you can when you live in constant brain fog and your memory is like Swiss Cheese). It's complicated.
Well the biggie of course is the homozygous MTHFR A1298C mutation. I think only the MTHFR C677T is worse. It means my methylation is reduced to about 20-30 %. Then I have big bright red COMT mutations, leaving me prone to neurotransmitter troubles and depression. I guess these genes come from my mother's side. There probably was a reason why my biological grandmother gave her child away, maybe she had already mental health issues? My mother certainly has, and me, well I am the one trying to break free. Yes, I had and have depression but I am getting better and better and learning how to tame my flawed genes. With the COMT genes I am better off avoiding green tea and curcumin for example, and also Cannabis, which is interesting as smoking it never had an effect on me while the one time I had edibles in my life it was not a nice experience at all. Apparently the COMT gene can lead to psychosis from cannabis which explains why some people really don't do well with it. I wonder what that might mean for trying CBD Oil which I recently ordered. I hope it will effect me differently, since the THC is removed. What else. The VDR mutations which down regulate the Vitamin D absorption so I did well moving to Southern Spain where I get plenty of sunshine in summer. Probably a reason why I don't tan easily (the only time I tanned super easily was when I was raw vegan). So actually my Candida had been pretty well under control over the past years. No thrush, no massive bloating, tongue coating was not too bad either. Which is probably because I eat a pretty clean diet.
But I noticed every time I started taking my methylation supplements B12 and Folate that my fungal infections increased. I read that B 12 and folate can feed Candida. It makes sense. Maybe the reason why so many people with health issues have vitamin deficiencies is because the Candida ingests them. Another reason could be that any health improvement via methylation uptick etc causes a detox and dump of toxins which then leads to temporary gut imbalances. I mean, this is how we get a Candida overload in the first place, right? Because we are toxic. Which kills the good bacteria so that Candida can have a big ass party. Anyway, so I read about Saccharomyces Boulardii being the ultimate weapon against Candida. It is a yeast itself, but a friendly one, that won't colonize the gut but will remove the bad Candida. Sounds fab. I also read in Alberto Villoldo's latest book "Grow a new body" how you can increase your number of Boulardiis by feeding them cooked fruit, so I have been doing that too. The last 2 days I took 1 capsule of Jarrow's Boulardii and I don't know why but I feel more yeasty than before. As in more bloated and I can also smell more yeast... the hopeful part of me thinks it is Candida leaving and being excreted. I was also wondering if my Pyroluria supplements, mainly the vitamin B6, increase the Candida. Firstly, because they cause a detox and copper dumping, or because b vitamins in general feed Candida? So after lots of procrastinating, I finally went and had a family constellation session. I was a bit worried about the language difficulties since it was in Spanish but I got along. Maybe would have been better in German or English but I think it was fine.
Let's see what I will get out of it. I have big ass family stuff (don't we all). The thing is, I understand everything behind it rationally but I always stay in the distanced analytical mind. I froze my emotions, basically I froze my whole life. Stuck and frozen, which also sums up autism in some way. Never had a proper relationship, don't really mingle with other people, staying in my comfort zone. Sure, I challenge myself - backpacking the world for example. But I never fully jump into it, I always keep one foot on the ground so to speak. Anyway, the session was interesting, emotional and powerful. It was only the first one and there might come more. Interesting how she picked up on past eating disorders just by the way I placed the figures that represented my mother and father for example. Overall, it is too early to judge but it seems a powerful way of therapy and dealing with family energies. My friends recommended her highly. Overall, my main role is to be happy. There is nothing else to be done. I am the child, it is not my role to take care of my mother. Let's see if something changes inside. A couple of months ago it dawned on me. My libido was gone.
Now this is a big deal for me. I always had a crazy big libido. Three times a day, yes please. It seemed to have been the only good thing about this messed up body at times. Now looking back there was probably even a messed up reason for this super high sex drive. Guess I lived in overdrive for a long time. It might be connected to methylation (it is said undermethylators have a high libido. From the rest of the symptoms for undermethylation I fit quite well too. So does a reduced libido now mean I am not an undermethlyator anymore? Or does it mean I exhausted my adrenals - probably the latter). When did it start? About 1,5 years ago my libido was still high I would say. Then I left for a 6 months journey travelling the world (and as much as not working and just travelling and seeing beaches etc sounds like super relaxing, it is actually quite a lot of stress you put on your body. Not too many healthy meals, many flights, time differences... for somebody like me who is prone to stressing out and anxiety, this was a big challenge. Glad I did it though!). During my travels I had already really low sex drive but I put that down to the stress. But then I came back and it kinda continued. Although the first weeks I was back it actually got sky high again. Maybe because I didn't have sex in so long and the first weeks I stayed with my good friend, with whom I had shared the bed for some time already. We got a real strong sexual connection, so at first all was good. But then it got less and less. We still had sex and I still enjoyed it very much, but I wasn't really horny in between. I could take it or leave it. Which might actually be a good thing! I hear guys saying it was such a relief for them when they entered their 50's and weren't ruled anymore by their dick. But I was only 36 and I must say I missed being randy. Is it an age thing? Lately as I have been exploring Pyroluria again etc I got the hope that it is just a massive zinc deficiency. I realised I have white spots on my nails again which is a big indicator zinc deficiency. I hadn't supplemented much zinc, and let's face I didn't eat much red meat. Stress massively depletes magnesium AND zinc, and while I always supplemented magnesium (which probably is a reason why my anxiety levels are so low these days), I had kinda neglected the zinc. So I started taking zinc and pretty quickly ramped it up to 50 mg. Oh dear, massive copper dumping came my way, with crazy headaches, sleep paralysis and nightmares and just an overall feeling of losing my marbles. Sweet. I backed down with the zinc and sloooowly started again. This has been a few weeks now. Libido still pretty much zero. Reaching an orgasm takes forever. I know, this is an issue for many women actually, and I believe that many people are heavily zinc deficient. Just looking at a bodybuilding online forum and see how many of those guys supplement with zinc and say it makes them better men! Stress depletes zinc, exercising like lifting heavy weights depletes zinc, infections deplete zinc - I came to the conclusion that everybody probably needs zinc and magnesium in their lives. Thanks to my love for sex I dove deep into research again, and via Zinc and Pyroluria I also came across Mitosynergy and how copper toxic people are also most likely deficient in copper. Actually some numbers say about 80 % of the population are deficient in copper (the bioavailable that is) because our soils are depleted, and really who is eating enough leafy green vegetables. Plus, if your liver and adrenals are tanked, your body has difficulties producing ceruloplasmin, the protein-carrier that makes copper bioavailable. So if your body cannot use the copper you are taking in, it stores it as toxic copper, and that causes a host of issues. Women are especially prone to copper toxicity due to higher estrogen levels. Add to that IUD (copper spirals for contraception), you have a recipe for disaster. Anxiety, paranoia, hormonal imbalances. So Mitosynergy claims to be the first bioavailable copper that goes directly into the cells. I looked it up and it sounds legit so - obviously - I ordered me a sample. It is bloody expensive (as with most things that work) but whatever it takes. So I am kinda grateful for losing my libido as it brought back my awareness to the imbalances in my body. Adrenals of course are a big part of the journey too. I think I massively tanked them because when I came back from my world travels I started the Iodine Protocol (more about that in a different post) which is really hard on the adrenals. That was also when I gained a ridiculous amount of belly fat, and had crazy energy crashes. It's all about balance. The puzzle continues. Oh, and don't get me started on how Maca has increased your libido like crazy, blah blah. Yeah. No. Didn't do it for me, which just shows how deep I seem to be in the shit, haha. I still take it regularly for supporting my adrenals though, plus many other adaptogens. |
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