The human body is composed of more than 80 elements. According to the different contents of elements in human body, it can be divided into macro elements and trace elements. Elements whose content accounts for more than one ten thousandth of the human body are called macro elements. Trace elements refer to elements whose content is less than human body110000 and daily requirement is less than1000 mg. The content of trace elements in human body is really negligible. For example, zinc only accounts for 33 parts per million of the total weight of human body. Iron is only 60 parts per million.
Although the content of trace elements in human body is not much, it is closely related to human survival and health and plays a vital role in human life. Excessive intake, insufficient intake, imbalance or lack of them will cause different degrees of physiological abnormalities or diseases.
The most prominent role of trace elements is closely related to vitality, and only the amount as large or smaller as matchhead can play a huge physiological role. It is worth noting that these trace elements must usually be obtained directly or indirectly from the soil, but most people often cannot get enough trace elements through diet. According to scientific research, up to now, it has been confirmed that there are 18 kinds of essential trace elements related to human health and life, namely iron, copper, zinc, cobalt, manganese, chromium, selenium, iodine, nickel, fluorine, molybdenum, vanadium, tin, silicon, strontium, boron, rubidium and arsenic. Every trace element has its special physiological function. Although they are very rare in the human body, they are necessary to maintain some decisive metabolism in the human body. Once these essential trace elements are lacking, the human body will suffer from diseases and even life-threatening.
What symptoms does the body need to supplement trace elements?
At present, it is clear that about 30% of diseases are directly caused by the lack or imbalance of trace elements. It has been reported abroad that the reduction of the total amount of iron, copper and zinc in the body can weaken the immune mechanism (disease resistance), reduce the disease resistance, promote bacterial infection, and the mortality rate after infection is also high.
anaemia
Lack of copper in human body can cause iron deficiency anemia. The most common clinical manifestations are dizziness, fatigue, fatigue, tinnitus and dizziness. Pale skin, mucous membrane and nails, feeling short of breath and flustered after physical activity. In severe anemia, shortness of breath and palpitation will occur even at rest, and soft systolic murmurs can be heard at the tip and bottom of the heart.
Skeletal changes
The clinical manifestations are osteoporosis and easy to fracture.
Copper deficiency can lead to coronary heart disease
Copper deficiency can also promote myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease.
Copper deficiency is also related to vitiligo.
Studies have shown that the serum copper content of vitiligo patients is significantly lower than that of healthy people; The content of tyrosine, the raw material of melanin formation in blood, is also less than that of normal people, which fully shows that copper deficiency is the main cause of vitiligo.
Relationship between copper and white spots
Leukoplakia is mainly caused by the disorder of skin melanin synthesis, and copper is essential in the process of melanin synthesis. Copper can catalyze the oxidation of tyrosine and dopa to form melanin, so if the human body is seriously deficient in copper, it will affect the synthesis of melanin and induce white spots.
Copper deficiency can lead to brain tissue atrophy.
Copper deficiency in human body can produce abnormal red blood cells with short life span, leading to anemia; Brain tissue atrophy, mental retardation and dyskinesia; Hair keratinization, curly hair with copper hair. Mild overdose can cause metallic taste in the mouth, salivation, epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting, while severe overdose can cause anemia, liver failure, shock, coma or death. When the human body is short of copper, it can cause brain tissue atrophy, neuron decrease, nerve development obstruction, drowsiness and so on.
Lack of copper will lead to white hair.
Copper can maintain the normal formation of melanin in hair and the health of hair. Therefore, the lack of copper will lead to white hair.
Why is it good to eat seabuckthorn to supplement copper?
In order to keep healthy, adults should consume 0.03 mg of copper per kilogram of body weight every day. Pregnant women and babies should be doubled. Lack of copper can lead to various diseases. Seabuckthorn is a kind of medicinal and edible plant, which contains 428 active nutrients. Solve a variety of nutrients that the human body lacks. It solves the problem that medicine tonic is not as safe as food tonic.
Seabuckthorn contains dozens of trace elements: 1 1, such as iron, zinc, calcium, copper, manganese, iodine, selenium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, germanium and so on. Seabuckthorn is a treasure house of copper. Every 65438 000 grams of seabuckthorn fruit or leaf contains 83.75 235.45 mg of copper. Eating seabuckthorn food helps to improve human immunity.
Copper is an essential trace element for human body, and the daily intake of adults is 2 5 mg. The function of copper is mainly to participate in iron hematopoiesis, and the lack of copper in human body can also cause iron deficiency anemia. However, the role of copper in improving human immunity has not been understood by most people. In fact, copper is also a "master" to improve human immunity.
Modern immunopharmacology research shows that copper can promote the division and proliferation of white blood cells, and copper deficiency will cause the maturation obstacle of bone marrow neutrophils, shorten their life span, lead to neutropenia and directly lead to the decline of immunity. Modern immunopharmacology research also shows that immunity depends on whether copper is sufficient in the body to some extent. When the body is short of copper, the reactivity of lymphocytes to mitogen, the production of antibodies, the activity of natural killer cells, the weight of thymus and the level of thymosin, and the antibacterial activity of phagocytes decrease, resulting in the decline of the body's immunity. It is not difficult to see how important copper is to improve human immunity.