my friend has quit eating chocolate and reckons she's got toxic copper syndrome - is there such a thing or is she barking?

how would you get it?  and why chocolate?

seems like people are allergic to everything these days - is it all in the head or are we slowly poisoning ourselves?

i think it's all the additives and stuff in our food, it's messing with our bodies.

is it too much copper or not enough?

I'd heard that chocolate has quite a bit of copper so it must be too much copper.

i think there's a lot of stuff like this that we don't know enough about.

Personally, I think she's bonkers.  No offense, but there's lots of things about chocolate that mean we shouldn't eat too much of it that are completely common knowledge, like the sugar can play havoc with your blood sugar levels, and the milk fat can make you gain weight.  I reckon that for your friend to have eaten enough chocolate for the relatively low copper levels in the choclate to raise to toxic levels in her body, she'd have to eat enough that her blood sugar levels would be off the charts and she'd be obese - in which case, I think that it's a much more likely possibility that her health problems are related to bad diet in general - not chocolate.

 

I think it is for real, but you're probably right, you'd have to eat a lot of chocolate!

Hi y'all, Copper levels can become excessive, but not by eating chocolate alone. The contraceptive pill is a big contributer to raised copper levels, exposure to copper piping from water supplies is another. Sometimes after pregnancy, copper levels don't fall as they should without nutritional help.

 Hair analysis can help identify mineral imbalances but try www.nutricentre.co.uk for help and advice if excess copper levels concern you. www.healthy.net is another great site for answers, also www.wddty.com can shed light on a lot of baffling stuff, supplements can help any situation like this, but get some advice

 good luck