So, I’ve deduced that the reason for my mounting health problems (muscle, nerve, and tendon pain; incessant infections; cystic acne; worsening allergies; inability to focus; constant exhaustion) is copper toxicity from an IUD I was assured was safe. Edit: They were not discontinued this past year. I found something on it this morning and it disappeared.
However: “Several hundred milligrams of copper a year can easily be absorbed from a copper IUD. Many women still use the Copper-7 intrauterine birth control device, although it has been taken off the market. The only intra-uterine birth control device sold today, however, is a copper-T. These devices can be very harmful for women prone to high copper levels.” http://www.arltma.com/CopperToxDoc.htm
I am pretty angry at Planned Parenthood at this moment. This is in a completely personal way—not taking a shot at their services in any broad sense. Perhaps I am just incensed about being duped on a health issue and taking a doctor’s word for something without doing my own research.I was never asked if I had a high-copper, largely vegetarian diet at the time. I was never told copper was able to imbalance one’s entire system.
In a coarse way, dirty living is good for you and clean living is bad for. You are part bacteria, if you got rid of the life on your skin or in your gut, you would almost certainly die. But, what I had envisioned was an expansion of the slightly more complex idea called the hygiene hypothesis, whose argument goes something like this… Humans moved from rural lifestyles outdoors to hyper-clean lifestyles indoors in city apartments with central air, sealed windows and surfaces scrubbed clean, at every opportunity, with antimicrobial wipes. That transition led us to spend less time getting “dirty” outside. It also “cleaned up” many of the species we need around us indoors that would allow us to get dirty with life. This combination prevented many of our immune systems from developing normally. As a consequence, our immune systems tend to get “messed up” when we live in cities. They revolt against us in the form of asthma, allergies, Crohn’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease and, depending on who you ask, maybe even MS and autism. In other words, clean living of one sort or another may be at the root of the majority of modern, chronic, diseases.
