Does Copper Toxicity & Heavy Metals = Fibromyalgia

Do you have numerous tender points (especially between the shoulder blades), sore muscles, sore fascia and connective tissue, crazy headaches (or even migraines), and areas of skin that have slowly become supersensitive and very painful. You might have a crazy build-up of copper or copper toxicity. Your body will replace a zinc deficiency with copper (they are besides each other on the periodic table of elements so easy for your body to confuse the two) and that spells trouble, trouble like all the above symptoms.

These are actually also classic symptoms of the diagnosis known as fibromyalgia. Naturopaths first discovered or determined that fibro pain could be caused by a copper toxicity. They also figured out to give molybdenum to help,bring down the level but did not seem to know why it worked (let me tell you here - molybdenum helps the copper metallothionein form molybdopterin which is critical to the function of the metallothionein in removing the copper).

So you ask - what is a metallothionein and why is it important. We have 23 known metallothioneins in our body, apparently one designed for each metal including copper - these make sure the particular metal, for which they were designed, goes to the right spot in the body where it is needed. Aftermuch study and research I assumed that this was where the dysfunction occurred in fibro patients, probably secondary to,some genetic issue or SNP (since fibromyalgia does tend to run in families).

The results of our 43 patient study were stunning so now we are planning a bigger study for JAMA. We are not joking around here -this really worked. First, all the patients in the study had diagnosed fibromyalgia, some severe, and secondly and more notably they all had abnormally high levels of serum copper (when we calculated their levels using a formula called the NCC).