JonnyRadar said:
i will make a more detailed post on this matter once i've pulled some more materials together...
Well, strangely enough, I find myself following up on this thread one year later to the day, which I didn't realize until looking at the clock just now... :O So here goes...
In researching copper, it’s been quite interesting to find the myriad uses of the metal, as well as the energetic influence it seems to have on living biological tissue.
Copper is an essential nutrient for humans, and needed for wide range of biological processes. The list of copper’s activities is long: we need it for cellular energy production, skin and connective tissue stability, bone growth and strength, the brain and nervous system, as well as the control of free radicals that cause cellular damage. Copper also plays a role in fetal and infant development, and a healthy immune system. Like many other essential elements of the body, too much copper can be harmful, although toxicity from too much copper is extremely rare.
International Copper Association
http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/copper/blood/prweb563992.htm
While there are quite a few nutrients and minerals essential for human life, one thing that seems interesting about copper is the correlation between its conductive / energetic properties and its role in the activities of ligands.
Copper is essential in all plants and animals. Copper is carried mostly in the bloodstream on a plasma protein called ceruloplasmin. When copper is first absorbed in the gut it is transported to the liver bound to albumin. Copper is found in a variety of enzymes, including the copper centers of cytochrome c oxidase and the enzyme superoxide dismutase (containing copper and zinc). In addition to its enzymatic roles, copper is used for biological electron transport. The blue copper proteins that participate in electron transport include azurin and plastocyanin. The name "blue copper" comes from their intense blue color arising from a ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) absorption band around 600 nm.
Wikipedia: Copper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper
LMCT is a charge transfer complex, a “chemical association of two or more molecules, or of different parts of one very large molecule, in which the attraction between the molecules (or parts) is created by an electronic transition into an excited electronic state, such that a fraction of electronic charge is transferred between the molecules.” (Wikipedia)
Comparing the kinetics of ligand binding to copper proteins and simple Cu(II) complexes is a potentially valuable way to assess structure-reactivity correlations for the proteins. Cu(II) complexes typically display facile ligand-substitution chemistry in solution.
Active Site of Copper Proteins
J. V. Bannister, A. M. Michelson
Interestingly, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently discovered that copper and the protein Atp7a (copper transporter) are vital to a healthy mind, due to their beneficial role in nerve function.
The researchers found that when a chemical signal, or neurotransmitter, hits one of the microscopic antennas present at nerve synapses, Atp7a reacts and quickly brings copper ions from their storage areas within nerve cells to the cell surface.
When released into neural synapses, the copper damps down the activity of these antennas, called NMDA receptors. The activity of NMDA receptors determines how strong the connections between nerves cells are and changes in the receptors' activity are critical to cell survival, learning and memory.
"In the brain, some neurons have strong connections, and some have weak connections, but this is changing all the time," says Gitlin, who is also director of genetics and genomic medicine at St. Louis Children's Hospital and scientific director of the Children's Discovery Institute. "The plasticity of the connections between neurons is important for nerve cell survival and for our ability to think the way we do. The NMDA receptors are a large component of this process, and we've found that Atp7a and copper are key factors controlling them."
Copper helps brain function — could tweaking circuits make us smarter?
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-71135.html
This seems to correlate with what Laura writes in Ancient Science, concerning ligands:
When the ligand, the chemical key, binds to the receptor, entering it like a key in a keyhole, it creates a response that causes a rearrangement, a changing of shape, until INFORMATION enters the cell.
In a certain sense, a ligand is the cellular equivalent of a phallus! Ligand comes from the Latin “ligare”, or that which binds. The same word is also the root of “religion.” Curious, yes?
A more dynamic description of this very miniscule process would be that relating to “frequency.” The ligand and the receptor combine their identical frequencies – striking the same note, so to say – which produces a sufficiently strong vibration that more or less “rings the doorbell” to cause the doorway of the cell to open and there is some sort of exchange of atomic potentials that constitute the “information” that is “sent into the cell.” What happens next is quite amazing. The receptor, having received a message transmits it from the surface of the cell deep into the cell’s interior, where the message can change the state of the cell dramatically. A chain reaction of biochemical events is initiated as tiny cellular machines go into action and, depending on the message of the ligand, begin any number of activities – manufacturing new proteins, making decisions about cell division, opening or closing ion channels, adding or subtracting energetic chemical groups like phosphates – to name just a few. In short, whatever a given cell is up to at any moment, is determined by which receptors are on its surface, and whether those receptors are occupied by ligands or not. On a larger scale, these tiny physiological phenomena at the cell level can translate to major changes in behavior, physical activity, even mood – and ABILITY.
Ancient Science
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
So, the balance of copper in the body contributes to the plasticity of nerve receptors, which aids in ligand binding, which can result in changes in physiological and mental functions.
Yet if copper is so beneficial, why are so many people copper deficient?
The regulation for copper became effective in 1992. Between 1993 and 1995, EPA required your water supplier to collect water samples from household taps twice a year and analyze them to find out if copper is present above 1.3 ppm in more than 10 percent of all homes tested. If it is present above this level, the system must continue to monitor this contaminant twice a year.
If contaminant levels are found to be consistently above the Action level, your water supplier must take steps to reduce the amount of copper so that it is consistently below that level. The following treatment methods have been approved by EPA for controlling copper: Corrosion control.
How will Copper be detected in and removed from my drinking water?
http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/contaminants/dw_contamfs/copper.html
The recommended daily dosage of copper as a nutrient is 2mg. 10mg can have a toxic effect. So it would make sense to regulate the levels of copper in the water. Yet colloidal copper, at 10ppm, offers approximately 2mg of copper in the recommended daily dose, 2 mL. This is along with the copper also ingested in food and water, so it seems that we could actually use more copper than the "action level" set by the EPA. However, I could be totally wrong about this distinction, so if there are any chemists/nutritionists here who can shed some light on the subject, please do...
The fact stands that copper deficiency plays a role in many diseases, including widespread heart disease. This is due also in part to the large quantities of sugar we ingest, which promotes copper deficiency.
Copper deficiency plays a vital role in atherogenesis. To the long list of risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease should be added the deleterious interaction between copper deficiency and carbohydrate consumption. Here we critically evaluate the role of copper in the diet and its role as a possible etiological factor in the development of cardiovascular disease. A possible mechanism for the development of heart disease due to copper deficiency is proposed.
There are many known risk factors for the development of heart disease, including hyperlipidemia and hypertension; however, little emphasis has been placed on the role of copper on heart disease. Over the last couple of decades, dietary copper deficiency has been shown to cause a variety of metabolic changes, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypertension, and glucose intolerance. Interestingly, these changes are common in the United States population and they are known risk factors for heart disease.
Further research in this field is warranted considering the profound implications to people in the United States and around the world who consume processed foods marginally deficient in copper and replete with sugar. The only nutritional condition with signs and symptoms of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease may be copper deficiency. Improving levels of copper in the diet, by appropriate food selection or by addition of a daily multi-vitamin, is recommended.
A deleterious interaction between copper deficiency and sugar ingestion may be the missing link in heart disease, Hamidreza Aliabadi
http://tinyurl.com/cjy6a2
Joel Wallach describes the very evident negative effects of copper deficiency in his book
Dead Doctors Don’t Lie:
Here's a good one. Dr S.C., 38 years old. Dead of a ruptured aneurysm. Even a turkey wouldn't die of a ruptured aneurysm! It's easy to prevent. We learned this in 1957. The government came out with its 'wonder food pellet' for turkeys. Guaranteed to grow them bigger, fatter, faster, and deader than a door nail. The farmers had to pick them up in bushel baskets, worst year ever for turkeys, they took them to the labs by the truck load, opened them up, and guess what they found? They all died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, every last one, 50% of the entire nation's flock of turkeys... So they knew something was missing in the food. They analyzed the liver, blood, and muscles. Copper deficiency! Your arteries' elastic fibers need copper for tensile strength. The next year the copper content in the feed was doubled, and the mortality rate from ruptured aortic aneurysms dropped to 0%!
Dead Doctors Don’t Lie
Joel Wallach
Copper deficiency is also tied with Menkes disease, a genetic disease resulting from the mutation of the protein Atp7a (mentioned earlier in the Washington University study as assisting in heightened brain function).
This and other correlations were on my mind when I read a recent post from Laura, regarding the detox diet she and the SOTT team has developed:
I wonder if the introduction of agriculture, particularly wheat, had anything to do with the inhibition of DNA? Perhaps our calling the detox, no-wheat, no sugar diet "The Liberation Diet" is more than coincidence?
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=10663.msg83812#msg83812
Indeed, wheat glutens cause inflammation of the small intestine, assisting the growth of candida and preventing the uptake of nutrients such as copper, which would promote healthy ligand-receptor binding. Sugar ingestion (which feeds candida) appears to also be tied to copper deficiency.
So, while it may be a bit of a stretch, I find myself wondering if copper has been intentionally regulated from the food and water the public consumes.
Curious as well, when considering the energetic properties of copper. As with any conductor, it emits an electromagnetic field when a current is run through it, yet copper specifically exhibits strange traits in regards to its effects on living biological tissue.
In the 1920s, French engineer Georges Lakhovsky developed a device called the Multiple-Wave Oscillator (MWO), which utilized a high-energy transformer hooked up to an antenna comprised of a series of concentric copper rings. The transformer emits high voltage spikes that are fed through the antenna. The output can be tuned to certain frequencies that then resonate with the “oscillations” of the target cells, strengthening them and repelling damaging microbes.
Regarding microbes, copper is used for doorknobs and on surfaces in hospitals for its antimicrobial properties:
Copper is germicidal, via the oligodynamic effect. For example, brass doorknobs disinfect themselves of many bacteria within a period of eight hours. Antimicrobial properties of copper are effective against MRSA, Escherichia coli and other pathogens.
Wikipedia: Copper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper
Hilarious side note: the name "oligodynamic" results from the Greek oligos, or
force.
Moving on, Lakhovsky explains his theory about the “oscillations” of cells like this:
[…] The motion of a pendulum will be used for this explanation. When a pendulum is displaced from the position of equilibrium, it moves back and forth producing what are known as ochrone oscillations, until the energy stored is entirely exhausted. By means of a motor, a spring, or an electromagnet, it is possible to keep the motion of the pendulum of constant amplitude, producing undamped oscillations. If, on the contrary, the source of power is removed, the oscillations die down and it is necessary not only to reapply the power sustaining the oscillations, but also to furnish additional energy to start the pendulum in motion. This oscillation of a pendulum reproduces exactly what happens in the cells of a living being.
Curing Cancer With Ultra Radio Frequencies, Georges Lakhovsky
http://www.rexresearch.com/lakhov/lakhusps.htm
Lakhosvksy showed the potential of frequencies on living cells when emitted from a copper antenna backed by a high-voltage power source. However, he also showed that copper alone could have an effect on living cells, without an “apparent” power source:
In December, 1924, he [Lakhovsky] inoculated 10 germanium plants with a plant cancer that produced tumors. After 30 days, tumors had developed in all of the plants. He took one of the 10 infected plants and simply fashioned a heavy copper wire in a one loop, open-ended coil about 30 cm (12") in diameter around the center of the plant. and held it in place with an ebonite stake .
The copper coil acted as an antennae or a tuning coil, collecting and concentrating oscillation energy from extremely high frequency cosmic rays.
The diameter of the copper loop determined which range of frequencies would be captured. He found that the 30 cm loop captured frequencies that fell within the resonant frequency range of the plant's cells. This captured energy reinforced the resonant oscillations naturally produced by the nucleus of the germanium's cells. This allowed the plant to overwhelm the oscillations of the cancer cells and destroy the cancer. The tumors fell off in less than 3 weeks and by 2 months, the plant was thriving. All of the other cancer-inoculated plants-without the antennae coil- died within 30 days. In his book, Lakhovsky shows pictures of the recovered plant after 2 months, 6 months, and 1 year. Three years later, with the original coil left in place, the plant grew into a very robust specimen.
What is a Multiple Wave Oscillator?
http://multiplewaveoscillator.com/what_is_a_multiple_wave_oscillator.html
This again brings to mind Laura’s reference in Ancient Science to frequencies:
A more dynamic description of this very miniscule process would be that relating to “frequency.” The ligand and the receptor combine their identical frequencies – striking the same note, so to say – which produces a sufficiently strong vibration that more or less “rings the doorbell” to cause the doorway of the cell to open and there is some sort of exchange of atomic potentials that constitute the “information” that is “sent into the cell.”
Ancient Science
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Which leads me to some questions that I've been pondering for a little bit, and am curious regarding feedback from other forum members...
Is there a correlation between the properties of copper as a conductor within living cells (ligands binding to receptors) and its apparent effects on the resonant frequencies of the same cells? That is to say, is the copper in our bodies having the same effect energetically as it does physiologically?
Is widespread copper deficiency another "piece of the puzzle" in the PTBs control matrix? It seems that deficiency contributes in large part to decreased brain function. Combine that with fluoride, and hey, you've got a party.
Thoughts?
got carried away, gotta watch that moving center
