Ippodrom47
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Hi everyone! For the last couple or even several months I've been feeling like total crap, especially after eating - extreme fatigue/brain fog/ cold hands and feet/anxiety. I've been eating a diet pretty high in copper (no supplements, though) containing lost of buckwheat and wholewheat noodles, some beans and potatoes here and there. My daily copper intake would easily pass over the RDA. I did a blood test a couple hours after eating (in order to "catch" the symptoms) in late March 2022 and they were as follows:
Total copper: 13.00 (range 10.99-21.98) ummol/L (which is 82.59 ug/dL)
Ceruloplasmin: 168 (range 200-600) mg/L → low
I calculated free copper:
82.59 - 16.8x3 = 32,19 (google says range is 10-15μg/dL)
Free copper percentage = 39%, which is quite a lot.
I realized then that I was eating was too little animal protein and increased it.
My results as of May 29 (also after eating 2 bananas, then buckwheat with chicken steak in an egg for breakfast):
Total copper: 10.8 (range 10.99-21.98) ummol/L (which is 68.61 ug/dL) → low
Ceruloplasmin: 167 (range 200-600) mg/L → low
Zinc: 14.6 (range 11.1-19.5) → okay
C-reactive protein: less than 0.14 → okay
Free copper is around 18%, which is high, but not too much,
I've been eating more animal protein lately, but total blood protein is okay, and I know that it works as my total iron bound capacity/transferrin has increased even despite an increase in serum iron, meaning my body absorbs all that protein and the liver is capable of making the proteins it's supposed to be making.
So, given my high-copper diet, the question is: can copper overload lead to low serum copper AND low ceruloplasmin? As well as a range of naughty symptoms after eating foods high is copper?
Thanks!
Edit: Wilson's disease has been excluded based on genetic testing.
Total copper: 13.00 (range 10.99-21.98) ummol/L (which is 82.59 ug/dL)
Ceruloplasmin: 168 (range 200-600) mg/L → low
I calculated free copper:
82.59 - 16.8x3 = 32,19 (google says range is 10-15μg/dL)
Free copper percentage = 39%, which is quite a lot.
I realized then that I was eating was too little animal protein and increased it.
My results as of May 29 (also after eating 2 bananas, then buckwheat with chicken steak in an egg for breakfast):
Total copper: 10.8 (range 10.99-21.98) ummol/L (which is 68.61 ug/dL) → low
Ceruloplasmin: 167 (range 200-600) mg/L → low
Zinc: 14.6 (range 11.1-19.5) → okay
C-reactive protein: less than 0.14 → okay
Free copper is around 18%, which is high, but not too much,
I've been eating more animal protein lately, but total blood protein is okay, and I know that it works as my total iron bound capacity/transferrin has increased even despite an increase in serum iron, meaning my body absorbs all that protein and the liver is capable of making the proteins it's supposed to be making.
So, given my high-copper diet, the question is: can copper overload lead to low serum copper AND low ceruloplasmin? As well as a range of naughty symptoms after eating foods high is copper?
Thanks!
Edit: Wilson's disease has been excluded based on genetic testing.
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