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Is Fibromyalgia Wilson's Disease?

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🧠 “Is fibromyalgia just Wilson’s disease?” No—but it’s close. Wilson’s is extreme copper toxicity with liver failure and eye discoloration (Kayser-Fleischer rings). Fibro doesn’t go that far, but it’s often a milder copper regulation issue—genetically rooted and still painful. The low copper diet we use in our fibro protocols? It’s even better than the one Wilson’s patients get.

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Uh, is this Wilson's disease? You get asked that a lot. I get that a lot. [laughter] No, it's definitely not Wilson's disease. It's kind of a step below Wilson's disease. Wilson's disease is where you get these severe high copper issues with Kaisman I can't remember. Kaiser fleshman rings

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I think they're called around your eyes um around your iris. They're co kind of copper colored rings. Um and um around your uh no around your irises. They usually almost in mass die from um co uh liver failure due to copper toxicity. It

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doesn't have fibro. So it's not the same. That's a whole other deal, [music] right? They also are put on low carb diets. They are. And our diets, the ones that you've now helped develop with all the people there and stuff in your work and that page in fiber modules natural options, your low

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carb diets better than the one they get. Yeah. [laughter] It is a really good Yeah. It's profound. Yeah. The other one was created by doctors.

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