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Today, we're going to talk about the six amazing benefits of copper.

I've done a lot of videos on zinc, and if you have too much zinc, you'll deplete your

copper reserves.

So zinc and copper work together, so anytime you take one of those minerals, you better

take the other one as well.

And even more importantly, take those in a blend of all the trace minerals because you

never know what else you're going to throw out of balance.

So copper has some real powerful effects on the brain.

It helps connect neurons.

It also is involved with making neurotransmitters, which are hormone-like communication particles

that travel within the nervous system, dopamine, GABA, adrenaline, and things like that.

And if you don't have enough neurotransmitters, it's going to affect your mood.

Copper is involved in the anti-inflammatory process.

I'm not sure exactly why, but it could be because copper is part of the vitamin C complex,

and it's in an enzyme form, but normally in nature, it's part of the vitamin C.

Vitamin C is kind of an antioxidant, it's an anti-inflammatory, and it also is important

in collagen.

All right, so copper actually helps support the immune system.

If you look at some of the serums that people sell for skin, they have their copper based.

Number six, it supports melanin.

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