Copper (CU) Exceptionally useful and important element for the human body - what does muscle tissue actually consist of? Where and how to find copper in which products is a big content of copper

The benefits and harm of copper were proven to ancient times. Without this item, it is impossible to maintain a normal level of vital activity, it is necessary for the body. On the other hand, copper can harm and cause serious diseases.

Description of the substance

Copper (Cuprum) - metal known since ancient times. The substance is very plastic, the color is rose gold. In the process of oxidation, it acquires a reddish tint and covered with a film. Clean copper is a good heat conductor, electricity.

In the Mendeleev table, it takes the 29th place, is in the 4th period. It is located in a group with noble metals.

Useful properties of media

Copper for the human body is huge. It was noticed in ancient times. In Rome, Greece and other countries used treatment methods with copper coins.

Today, the metal is used as a means:

• anti-inflammatory;
• antibacterial;
• hemostatic;
• antipyretic.

Treatment can help with:

• stop bleeding;
• resorption of new-forming benign;
• pain relief;
• defeat by almonds - tonsillitis and sore throat;
• headache;
• hyimorite;
• cardiovascular diseases;
• strengthening the immune system;
• varicose veins.

In addition, the element takes part in the production of red blood cells. It is important in the synthesis of hemoglobin. Strengthens the walls of the vessels and capillaries, affects pigmentation, is responsible for the strength of bone tissue.

Copper sources

What products contain copper? After all, it is from food that the body receives this element. The list of products is really diverse. Most specialists propose to divide products into two groups: plant origin and animal.

Important! The amount of copper in a particular product depends on its quantity in the soil.

Vegetable origin

The record holders on the content of the element are cereals. You can use any kinds: sunflower seeds, pumpkins, flax. The high content is recorded in the croups - pearl cereals, couscous, bull, rice, and porridge - oatmeal, buckwheat, manna.

Copper is in products containing flour. For example, in baking. However, baking is a source of a large amount of sugar and fat. It is better to choose bread from solid varieties and from whole grain flour.

Products containing an element include fruits and berries. Apricots, bananas, grapes, pineapples, etc., are characterized by the greatest copper content of copper, and pineapple, and a large amount of raspberries, strawberries, cherry, black currant, cranberries.

Dried fruits and nuts are also rich in copper:

• raisins;
• dried apricots;
• prunes;
• dates;
• hazelnut;
• cocoa beans.

Contained in greenery and spices. For example, in dill, spinach, ginger.

Animal origin

Many scientists argue that the most metal is contained in seafood. Sea gifts from ancient times were considered the richest source of element. It is necessary to consume squid, crustaceans and all varieties of fish. Moreover, seafood contain protein, potassium, nickel, group a and d vitamins.

Unfortunately, seafood can cause considerable harm. Only fresh products should be chosen, overdue can cause poisoning.

Copper is in meat. It is necessary to consume all types of meat and birds. 97 μg of copper is contained in pork, it is the greatest value. Sub-products are also enriched with metal.

Daily need and power of copper content in the body

Copper has the benefit of human health. Unfortunately, the human body does not synthesize the metal independently, so it is necessary to replenish stocks. The daily need and value of the content differ depending on some factors:

• floor;
• age;
• individual features.

For adults

The body of an adult contains about 140-160 mg of copper. This figure may vary depending on individual characteristics.

To maintain a normal level of life, it is necessary to consume from 2 to 3 mg of the element per day. Half of this amount is necessary for the bone system and muscles, about 12% for the liver.

Studies conducted in this field argue that most adults use an insufficient amount of copper. Most often, the person eats a little more than 1 mg per day.

For kids

For children, the value of the content directly depends on age:

1. From 1 to 3 years - no more than 1 mg.
2. From 4 to 6 years - 1.5 mg.
3. From 7 to 13 years - 2 mg.
4. Up to 18 years - up to 2.5 mg.

It is not worth giving a child too many products containing this metal, it can cause poisoning.

Attention! Before use of drugs, raising copper content, you must consult with a specialist.

During pregnancy

During pregnancy, a woman needs more trace elements, vitamins and nutrients. The female organism works for two. The useful properties of copper make it an unusually important element during pregnancy. The need for it increases. Copper use for the body of a woman is huge.

On the day of a pregnant lady should be used to 2.5 mg of copper.

Causes and symptoms of shortage of copper in the body

In order not to face the disadvantage of copper, it is enough to eat 100-120 grams of meat per day, a small amount of croup and fruit. However, many still suffer from copper deficit in the body, the most common reasons include:

1. Hereditary predisposition. There are genetic diseases in which people suffer from enzyme deficit, which leads to a reduced content of the element.
2. Scooter nutrition. Very often, especially in adolescence, people prefer harmful products useful. The diet includes sweets, chips, soda, etc.
3. In kids, the deficit of the useful element meets with too early introduction of feeding or improper feeding. With breastfeeding, the child gets everything you need from milk. The mixture does not contain a sufficient number of useful elements. In addition, it can be poor quality. Attempts to feed the child "adult food" also provoke the development of a metal deficit.
4. The diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, in which the normal absorption of the element is disturbed.
5. Liver and kidney disease.
6. Improper nutrition due to diets. A healthy lifestyle is very popular, but many adhere to the "pseudo-level" healthy nutrition and do not receive a sufficient amount of metal.

The main symptoms of the lack include:

• weakness and increased fatigue;
• hair loss or the appearance of seeds;
• headaches or dizziness;
• frequent colds and infectious diseases.

Important! If a person noticed these symptoms, you should not postpone the visit to the doctor, it can cause serious damage.

Symptoms and consequences of excess copper in the body

An excess of metal in the body may occur for several reasons: metabolic disorders, polyami-poisoning of metal, an overdose of drugs. The most frequent cause is the use of too much products containing an element.

The main symptoms of excess:

• nausea, vomiting;
• spasms in the stomach or diarrhea;
• metal taste in the mouth;
• disorders of neurological nature;
• increased body temperature;
• attacks thirst;
• chills.

When symptoms appear, it is necessary to immediately consult a doctor. The consequences may be truly dangerous and bring harm to the body. List of consequences:

• violations of speech;
• psychosis;
• atherosclerosis;
• diabetes;
• alzheimer's disease.

Copper preparations

It is not necessary to engage in self-medication and try to fill the copper deficit on your own. The use of any medicine must be coordinated with the doctor. The list of drugs that specialist can offer is huge:

• Bio-copper;
• Kupratin;
• Zincter;
• Kid;
• Zincteral-teva;
• Complivit;
• Cide;
• Totema.

Copper interaction with other substances

The absorption of copper reduces: cadmium, iron, manganese, antacids, tannins. Zinc, iron, cobalt, on the contrary, increase assimilation.

Copper can slow down the absorption of iron. A large amount of fructose adversely affects the absorption of this element. The use of a large number of vegetables and fruits containing vitamin C, or drugs can cause a metal deficit.

The benefits and harm of copper dishes

Copper dishes has a high thermal conductivity, the dishes are prepared faster. At the same time, taste qualities do not deteriorate, but, on the contrary, improve. Some jams or sauces recommend cooking in the dishes from this metal.

By reducing the preparation time, the product retains maximum beneficial properties. That is why copper dishes be beneficial to the body. Another useful property is an antibacterial effect.

On the other hand, such a tableware brings harm to health:

• under the effect of copper, ascorbic acid is destroyed;
• when stored in this dish, oxidation occurs;
• in improper conditions, it is covered with a green bloom and produces harmful substances.

Use of copper water

This is water that has been blown in copper dishes. Such a medicine is used since ancient times, it is used in Ayurveda. Water in copper dishes can benefit with proper use. It is better to insist the medicine no more than 12 hours. After cooking, drink an empty stomach of 1 cup. Used:

• when problems with the gastrointestinal tract;
• for diseases of the liver and kidney;
• to slow down the aging processes;
• for diseases of the cardiovascular system;
• when problems with the nervous system and the brain;
• under anemia;
• with inflammation of the joints.

Harm of copper and contraindications

Although copper has a lot of useful properties, it can bring serious harm. The excess causes various diseases, pain in the muscles, sleep disorders, provokes the development of epilepsy, destroys cells, slows down growth processes, increases cholesterol. Metal treatment is contraindicated in individual intolerance.

Conclusion

The benefits and harm of copper are proved. It is vital for the body, brings great benefits to health. Its use should be normalized. It is especially important to escape enough products enriched with this metal during pregnancy and copper shortage.

Have you had this article useful?

Before throwing out old household appliances, you can benefit from them in the literal sense of the word. Most electrical appliances are containing that can be very profitable to pass into specialized reception items. Of course, disassembled only to your own broken technology, it will not be possible to earn money, but if you get to the case seriously and collect scrap metal to relatives, friends and dumps, then you can significantly replenish the family budget.

Basic sources of copper.

One of the most expensive and common metals in household is copper. It is this metal more than the rest attracts the attention of scrap assemblers, due to its high costs and widespread use due to its properties.
For example, the old tube TV can contain copper parts with a total weight of up to 1.5 kg. It is worse with new models of semiconductor TVs, however, and you can choose to 0.5 kg of copper. Another good content of copper windings and spare parts are compression refrigerators and electric motors, copper content in which reaches 1 kg. But often the copper parts in them are inside the aluminum or worse than the cast-iron case, which involves the use of "Bulgarian" and significantly complicates the extraction of copper scrap.
You can get copper for leasing in scrap metal and in such instruments as:, starters, relays, magnetic starters, fittings for luminescent lamps. The output of the pure metal in these parts is not too large, but due to their widespread and widespread use relate to fairly attractive sources of color scrap.

How to collect copper?

To optimize the collection of scrap metal, it is necessary to develop an algorithm for collecting medical instruments, their delivery to the place of parsing, the very parsing and naturally putting to the reception point. The main sources of copper scrap include landfills, construction sites and abandoned transformer booths. The place of parsing and storage can serve as a garage. Of course, it is possible to analyze directly on the spot, but for this you have to constantly have the entire necessary tool with you, so this option is suitable only if there is a car.
Get copper for leasing in scrap it is still half of the case. The most important thing is beneficial to sell extracted metal. During the year, prices for non-ferrous metal scrap can vary strongly and since summer is the main season of copper production, it is extremely not desirable to hand over during this period. It is better to store the produced copper to winter and wait for an increase in the price of reception, so it is possible to pass copper in scrap metal more profitably.

Copper is necessary for the health of the body. It is involved in the transportation of oxygen into the cells. Copper is needed in endocrine and biochemical processes, it is necessary for the growth and development of bone and connective tissue, for the work of the brain, heart, internal organs.

Copper stimulates the body's immune system to protect against infections, improves tissue regeneration. Copper helps neutralize free radicals, destructive cells. Copper is very important for energy processes in the body, for the proper operation of the nervous system.

Copper is part of the painting pigment of the hair. With a lack of copper, the hair color deteriorates. Hair becomes unreamed, dull.

Copper maintains the balance of other beneficial substances in the body, such as molybdenum and zinc. If there is more than copper in zinc organism, then it does not give copper to be used, so the additional intake of zinc must be accompanied by the method of treatment of copper drugs.

Copper deficiency in the body can develop with insufficient arrival of this element (1 mg / day or less).

Copper Copper Products

products	copper(mg / 100 g of product)
Cod liver	12,50
Mixed liver	10,00
Cucumbers (some varieties)	8,40
Spinach	7,00
Cocoa powder	4.30
Sesame	4,10
Beef liver	3,80
Pig liver	3,70-7,5
Brewer's yeast	3,20
Hazelnut	1,83
Dog-rose fruit	1,80
Sunflower	1,80
Squid	1,50
Wheat bran	1,40
Squid	1,45
Chocolate	1,20
Peanut	1,14
Mushrooms (boosts)	0,90
Shrimp	0,85
Peas	0,75
Makaroni, V.S.	0,70
Lentil	0,66
Buckwheat	0,64
Fig	0,56
Walnuts	0,53
Pistachii	0,50
Oatmeal cereals	0,50
Beans.	0,48
Tomato paste	0,46
Croes "Hercules"	0,45
Kidney beef.	0,45
Heart beef.	0,45
Octopus	0,43
Icrescent sturgeon black	0,40
Croup-ray	0,37
Groats bang	0,37
Raisins	0,36
Bread wheat grain	0,32
Pearl cereals	0,28
Rice croups	0,25
Mutton	0,24
Rye bread	0,22
horsemeat	0,21
Canned fish in oil	0,21
Brains of beef	0,20
Beef	0,18
Sausage boiled	0,18
Sausage semi-copy	0,18
Sausages	0,18
Pumpkin	0,18
Radish	0,15
Radish	0,15
Cod	0,15
Apricots	0,14
Eggplant	0,14
Baton, bunch feathered	0,14
Potatoes	0,14
Beet	0,14
Green peas	0,13
Strawberry	0,13
Wheat bread, 1 s.	0,13
Garlic	0,13
Pears	0,12
Milk dry	0,12
Tomatoes	0,12
Salad	0,12
Horse mackerel	0,11

Copper is contained in the human body in very small quantities. Nevertheless, the lack of copper negatively affects health and well-being. The role of copper in the human body is said below.

Honey-rich foods

The easiest I. natural method of replenishing copper in the body-usee. medical in food. Products containing copper are listed in the table below:

Table copper containing products
Orekhi	Peanuts, Hazelnut, Walnuts, Pistachios, Almond
Bean	Peas, lentils, beans
Cereals	Buckwheat, rice, wheat, oatmeal, millet
Vegetables / greens	Salad foliage, parsley, asparagus, sweet paprika, (white, Beijing), eggplants, beets, potatoes, pumpkin
Fruit / Yagoda	Apricot, pineapple, avocado, pears, various citrus, apples, gooseberry, currant, strawberry
Products	Pasta, chocolate, egg yolk
Seafood	Shrimps, octopus, squid
Sub-products

Without copper can not normally form a brain and nervous system

Functions in the body

It is necessary for generating essential proteins and enzymes, as well as for the growth and development of cells and tissues:

• activated in the processing of fatty acids - as a result organism ensure energy;
• containing copper and zinc enzymes form one of the "layers" in the ancient barrier of the body,
  provides a normal passage of blood-forming processes;
• it is element, necessary for the growth of new cells;
• improves the basic function of phagocytes increasing ability to organism fight against inflammation;
• helps form stable i. reliable immunity;
• supports processes education of various enzymes.

Consumption rates

The daily need for copper depends on the age of a person:

• babies and Yaslavnikam about 0.5 mg of trace element is required;
• children pre-school age and seven-balls - approximately 0.6 mg;
• teenagers and juniors - 0.8 mg;
• adults - from 1, 5 to 3 mg.

The daily need for copper is covered in normal nutrition. Sometimes the disadvantage arises against the background of a protein deficiency caused by disorders in metabolic processes or in the abuse of zinc-, cadmium - iron-containing substances, vitamin C.

Since Tanins brake the absorption of copper, then excessive the passion for black tea may cause copper deficit. Like the reception of drugs with cortisone, oral contraceptives, other hormone-containing drugs. Reduces copper content in the body and meat abuse, dairy products nutrition.

When especially needed

Sometimes the body especially needs this trace element, for example:

• during pregnancy, starting from the second trimester and nursing mothers need a somewhat greater admission of the copper - additional 0.1 and 0, 4 mg, respectively, which contributes to the correct development of the fetus;
• in periods of increased physical activity, during wound healing and fractures;
• in employment in harmful production (work with mercury containing substances, aniline dyes, lead).

Symptoms lack in the body

The shortage of copper in the body is expressed in the following symptoms:

• in increasing the percentage of "bad" cholesterol;
• in the appearance of premature damages of the skin, rash, dermatosis;
• in the emergence of problems from the nervous system, since copper - an important component of myelin shells participating in the process of movement of nerve impulses.

Some people may start systematically emerging headaches, depression develops and reduce the overall tone.

The most secure way to increase the amount of copper in the body is to use products where there are more copper: liver dishes and croup, fruits, nuts

With a protracted "copper starvation" can develop:

• weakening of the heart muscle;
• hypochromic anemia, which will cause problems with the production of hemoglobin in the bone marrow;
• bone demineralization;
• early gray;
• uncharacteristic pigmentation of skin;
• varicose veins; (For treatment and prevention, you can use ointment and tablets).
• enhanced hair loss;
• problem with respiratory authorities;
• fragility of ships (as a result of internal bleeding).

Symptoms of oversupply

With excessive admission of copper in the body, violations are observed in the activities of nervous, hormonal systems: human canbecome exposed to the attacks of epilepsyThe women upset the menstrual cycle schedule.
Excess copper in the body may be due to poisoning, consequence of the disease of the urinary system, heart attack, bronchitis, which switched to a chronic form.

Preparations

In case of acute necessity, drugs are prescribed:

• « Bio-copper»
• Halride Med.
• Gluconate Med.
• "Almaty"
• "Activin"
• "Slim Shake"
• "Calcium Medzhik"