Normally most of the copper in your blood is carried by a protein called ceruloplasmin. Adults have 50 to 120 milligrams (mg) of copper in their body, mostly in muscle and the liver. Copper helps make melanin, bone, and connective tissue. It also helps with many other processes in your body.
Unlike most animals on earth, whose blood is iron-based, some mollusks (Mollusca) and arthropods (Arthropoda) have copper–based blood. While the best-known example of an arthropod with copper–based blood is the horseshoe crab, a number of other arthropods have blue blood.
Copper and iron are essential elements in the human organism, and recent enlightening research has given increased evidence of their importance in the blood stream.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/549306
In our first experiments, nine years ago, on the iron content of whole blood, we found it necessary to establish a large series of determinations on normal persons.1 The average iron content of whole blood for 200 men was 50.13 ± 0.15 mg. per hundred cubic centimeters, and for 100 women it was 43.42 ± 0.19. The mathematical index, the mode, the figure which appears most frequently in the series of determinations and around which the majority of figures group themselves, was 50 mg. of iron per hundred cubic centimeters for 200 men and 45 mg. for 100 women.1b The fact that in women the average fell below the mode illustrates the tendency toward the anemic state in women.
Copper may be involved in the pathophysiology of depression. Clinical data on this issue are very limited and not conclusive. The purpose of the study was to determine the copper concentration in the serum of patients with major depressive disorder and to discuss its potential clinical usefulness as a biomarker of the disease. A case-control clinical study included 69 patients with current depressive episode, 45 patients in remission and 50 healthy volunteers. Cu concentration was measured by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS). The mean serum copper level in depressed patients was slightly lower (by 11 %; not statistically significant) than in the control group. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in Cu2+ concentration between depressive episode and remission, nor between remission and control group. In the remission group were observed significant correlations between copper levels and the average number of relapses over the past years or time of remission. There was no correlation between serum copper and severity of depression, as measured by HDRS and MADRS. The obtained results showed no significant differences between the copper concentration in the blood serum of patients (both with current depressive episode and in remission) and healthy volunteers, as well as the lack of correlations between the copper level in the active stage of the disease and clinical features of the population. Our study is the first conducted on such a large population of patients, so the results may be particularly important and reliable source of knowledge about the potential role of copper in depression.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27147437/
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I’ve heard this copper based blood rumor several times too. I have nothing to substantiate it either. Generally though metal in the body is not a good thing and I do take supplements such as the trace mineral boron to limit things like aluminum etc from accumulating so I’ve never thought having extra copper would be good either. I recently had a full blood panel and they don’t test got that. They did my iron and aluminum levels which were good. Unfortunately no info on copper. I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has found this and what qualifies as the normal or higher level in the blood.
I’ve heard this rumor before also, but couldn’t find anything scientific as to the origins of it. I think this rumor may have come from old alchemical texts or something like that.. I’d be interested in a scientific origin, if one exists but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I would really like to hear your experience on a certain subject – I know something – do you know something else about it ? But I cant ask the question before I have shared this video – but the problem is that I dont know anybody who have the faintest idea of what you are talking about . If I just send it to ” someone ” without considering if this ” someone ” understand it , I would just had circumventet the basic idea you put in question . Down to basics : anyone who sees this , what is your body temperature ? In celcius if you fanzy .
I’m A– and I had massive internal blood losses in July and September of 2017. Both times I was hospitalized for a week and received a total of 19 units of blood transfusions between the 2 hospital stays. I had every conceivable test to try and find why I bled so much and a cause was never found. Ever since then my complete blood counts/tests have shown everything to be just below what blood counts should be and my hematologist has said I am anemic. I’ve been taking iron pills for a long time now but other counts just won’t improve. I’m constantly in whole body pain and tired. Currently waiting for the latest CBC test results from a week ago but this doctor does a lot of talking and says nothing. I know the basic number of 8 blood types is no longer considered the norm and I wonder if having had 19 blood transfusions has had an effect on my blood production being abnormal. My red blood cells are immature low in count along with low white blood cells and other blood problems just on the edge of the doctor not being concerned.