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🤯 Migraines or fibromyalgia? It might be high copper. Try a Low Copper Diet to Fix!

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How do you know if you have high copper? You can go by symptoms, but that's pretty inaccurate. Um, the two major symptoms from high copper that we deal with on a daily basis are migraines, which is I call them copper migraines. Um, which is more common. I think it's the majority of migraines. Actually, I'm

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beginning to think that because of the last 206 patients I've seen with migraines, 204 of them were copper problems and got dramatically better. So, so it's either migraines or it's fibromyalgia with stiffness and soreness in your neck and shoulders mostly even for the mild

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cases. But the real way to tell you do a get a serum copper or serum zinc and a ceru plasmine level and you can run a formula called the NCC. You can get it from my office or it's on our substack or it's on our website um or from Lois.

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It's it's also posted in the featured section on our private page and then you run the formula and answer seven is the one you want. If you're above 20% you have a copper problem and usually you're going to have significant fibromyalis

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