Benefits of adding copper to your lifestyle

1.    Nerves will fray without copper.
2.    Copper strengthens blood vessel walls.
3.    Copper is important to energy metabolism.
4.    Copper shares anti-inflammatory powers with zinc which is important in healing.
5.    Taste perception may be influenced by copper.
6.    Copper helps prevent anemia, bone and skeletal defects, a degeneration of the nervous   system
7.     Copper is the key mineral of collagen and elastin, essential for tendons and blood vessels.
8.     Women who are deficient in copper and iron are more likely to have problems in sleeping.
9.     Copper is a potent antiulcer agent.
10.    Without copper, skin becomes fragile, will break easily, and heal slowly.
11.    Without copper  bones can fracture.
12.    Without copper, blood vessels can leak or burst.
13.    Copper deficiency can elevate blood pressure.
14.    Copper is important to immune functions.
15.    Copper is necessary on the conversion of beta carotene to vitamin A.
16.    A copper-deficient diet may cause defective transport of vitamin A from liver to blood.
17.    Copper also may play an important role in cancer prevention.
18.    Copper is one of the more important antioxidants in the blood stream.
19.    Copper in the form of ceruloplasim keeps iron from rusting within the blood.
20.    Defects in the color and structure of hair, reproductive problems and abnormal cardiovascular problems.
21.   A diet totally devoid of copper would cause hemorrhage sever enough to end life.