Copper -- Andy?

[Guest guest]

I keep hearing you're not supposed to start ALA with high copper,

because (I think) too much copper coming out in the bile would be

hard on the liver.

' hair copper went from 10 (low green) last December to 520

(off the chart high) when we tested in August. The DDI info says high

hair copper may be attributable to swimming pool water or other

exogenous sources. He swims several times per week in the summer, all

of 'em in pools we don't own and can't control (or even reliably find

out at this late date) the chemical content of. Isn't cupric sulfate

(or something like that) what turns pool water blue?

Also between those tests we moved to a new house, which was built in

1977 vs our previous house which was built in 1989. What I've seen of

the plumbing pipes in the new house during minor remodeling has all

been copper; don't know about the old house. We drink tap water that

first runs through a cylindrical replace-yearly type of filter

(tastes great); we shower in straight tap water (tastes nasty).

His DDI urine test from the same time in August also reflects urinary

copper off the charts (this a provocation test during a normal

chelation cycle with 50mg DMSA every four hours). He did swallow a

lot of pool water when he swam during the summer; we kept telling him

it's yucky and not to drink it, he disagrees.

Worry, or don't worry?

Thanks