Copper Benefits
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Copper's benefits include:
- Copper is required for healthy red blood cells
Copper is required to help make properly formed and sufficient amounts of haemoglobin, which is needed to carry oxygen to all the cells in the body. This ensures that the red blood cells are healthy and functioning properly. - Copper is an antioxidant
Copper has antioxidant properties because it is a component of the super antioxidant made by the body - superoxide dismutase. Copper helps to fight the damaging effects of free radicals by neutralising them before they can harm any of the tissues or cells in the body and in particular preventing mutation of the DNA.
Copper is needed to help manufacture two neurotransmitters - dopamine and noradrenaline (norepinephrine), which are vital in the proper functioning of the brain
- Copper helps to make certain enzymes
Copper is also involved in producing several enzymes which assist with cell respiration. - Copper is needed to make connective tissues
Copper is required so that the body can make proper collagen and elastin, which helps to keep the skin, hair and nails healthy and in good condition. - Copper is vital for neuron (nerve) health
Copper helps to maintain and regulate healthy myelin sheaths (the fatty insulating substance around most nerve cells), which also helps to promote a healthy central nervous system, due to the important role that the myelin sheath has on enabling healthy nerve impulses. - Copper is needed to make neurotransmitters
Copper is needed to help manufacture two neurotransmitters - dopamine and noradrenaline (norepinephrine), which are vital in the proper functioning of the brain and in enabling regulated mood and cognitive functions. - Copper promotes normal insulin function
Copper is required to enable proper insulin function - to signal to cell receptors to accept glucose for energy.