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Why did I not know this before? If anyone can elaborate on the study below please feel free. This is a rat study. I wonder if it translates to humans? Could salt sensitivity be caused by a copper deficiency?
I stumbled on this whilst researching my continuing poor muscular skeletal health. Weak muscles coupled with hypothyroid symptoms, a recent increase in edema upon supplementing thyroid got me wondering what else I could be missing. I'd never associated copper with edema. My face looks like those old photos of myxedema. I hope these symptoms are reversible. My spine is pretty damaged. I will start supplementing copper to see if things improve. Will also get kidney function test done as soon as possible, perhaps before supplementing. Its pointless demanding a thyroid test from my doctors, according to them my thyroid is fine based on tsh of 1.8, my hypo symptoms are disregarded. Dr peat has emphasised the loss of copper in hypothyroid persons but the connection to salt sensitivity is surprising, presuming this applies to humans and not just rats.
Acute renal failure and fluid retention and kidney damage in copper-deficient rats fed a high-NaCl diet - PubMed
The effect of an interaction between Cu status and dietary NaCl level on kidney structure, water balance, and the plasma renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) was examined in 64 male Sprague-Dawley rats (178 gm) fed a copper-supplemented diet (CuS) (10 micrograms Cu per gram) or a...
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I stumbled on this whilst researching my continuing poor muscular skeletal health. Weak muscles coupled with hypothyroid symptoms, a recent increase in edema upon supplementing thyroid got me wondering what else I could be missing. I'd never associated copper with edema. My face looks like those old photos of myxedema. I hope these symptoms are reversible. My spine is pretty damaged. I will start supplementing copper to see if things improve. Will also get kidney function test done as soon as possible, perhaps before supplementing. Its pointless demanding a thyroid test from my doctors, according to them my thyroid is fine based on tsh of 1.8, my hypo symptoms are disregarded. Dr peat has emphasised the loss of copper in hypothyroid persons but the connection to salt sensitivity is surprising, presuming this applies to humans and not just rats.