To provide the most comprehensive evidence-based resource and support guide on copper toxicity to help those affected find clear answers; to provide research and education to both the medical community and general public on the topic;  to turn the tide of awareness so women may one day receive the fully informed consent they deserve before being put on birth control, and to increase professional and social support for all those affected.

When this site was launched in 2014, very little support or information on this topic was available to the public.   Through this site and our continued efforts,  we are proud to see education surrounding mineral imbalances and copper toxicity being recognized and adopted by more and more health care professionals, while those affected are today more easily able to find answers and support.

Copper toxicity may sometimes be referred to as hypercupremia, though it is a misleading term since hypercupremia literally translates to mean 'high copper concentration in the blood' even though blood levels are almost entirely irrelevant in assessing copper toxicity. Symptoms of copper toxicity can very much exist even when blood levels are normal or low.

Another term being used recently, copper dysregulation, while it eludes to the body's inability to regulate copper due to low ceruloplasmin, comes from a narrow-minded view which fails to address the bigger picture of why we have this epidemic in the first place, not to mention it completely ignores copper’s proven toxic attributes at high levels. Copper toxicity, as research has shown since the 1970s, is far more than just a dysregulation issue that can be ‘fixed’ by regulating ceruloplasmin. Our modern epidemic of copper toxicity is largely the result of ever increasing exposure to copper with each new generation over the past half century, a concept of paramount importance that tends to be trivialized by using the term ‘dysregulation’.

Copper toxicity, in the context of this site, differs somewhat from Pyroluria (a genetic condition in which the individual produces excess kryptopyrrole which in turn causes B6 and zinc deficiency). While pyroluria can lead to copper toxicity, not all copper toxicity is caused by pyroluria. Copper toxicity, though sharing some similarities with Wilson's Disease, is also different in that the latter is an inherited & rare genetic disorder which, like copper toxicity, causes copper to collect in the liver, brain and other body tissues, but has a more dire prognosis than copper toxicity, and for which a different treatment approach is required.