Health File
Copper And Iron Alert
Anyone over 50 who takes nutritional supplements may want to consider a brand without iron and copper pending further research into connections between the minerals and a range of age-related diseases.
Although essential, high levels of these trace minerals are associated with many health conditions of older adults, according to researcher George J. Brewer, emeritus professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Higher concentrations of copper and iron are found in those with neurodegenerative conditions, atherosclerosis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other chronic health problems.
“Subtle toxicity of copper and iron…may affect most of us as we age,” Brewer says in research published in Chemical Research in Toxicology. The human...
