Is copper an essential mineral?

absolutely it's an essential mineral in fact in the final step step in the mitochondria in complex four copper is the final donator of electrons to molecular to molecular oxygen that will split water split oxygen into water while producing atp so it's vital and that's just one enzyme It's in the mitochondria.

It's the final donator of electrons to molecular oxygen.

So that's a key, key factor.

So when we see copper, copper has a love affair with oxygen.

That's its gift and that's its curse.

So we have to keep that in the back of our mind.

And so what, and I realized that it's going to be case by case to some degree, but if there is some level of general advice you would give for resolving copper dysregulation, um, What would it be? And specifically, what's your view on the advice to avoid zinc and zinc supplementation as that leads to excessive detoxification of copper through metallofionine production, which was the argument that Morley Robbins made as to why you should avoid zinc?