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so I’m gonna talk about an interesting

relationship between vitiligo and copper

okay what is vitiligo it’s an autoimmune

condition where your body is attacking

certain cells that make melanin so

without melanin you don’t have the

pigment and you have these white spots

so it’s a loss of Milano site function

so the way this works is you have a

Milano site that makes melanin which is

that gives you the pigment in the skin

and it works through this conversion of

an amino acid to a certain enzyme

tyrosinase anything with an ace is an

enzyme so you need this enzyme to be

able to make melanin and to make this

enzyme work you need copper so the

entire structure of this enzyme which is

a protein requires copper and many

enzymes in the body require minerals as

their cofactor helper nutrients now when

you have too much of this enzyme you can

get a hyperpigmentation of the skin and

get dark spots or aging spots that’s

what that is

and there’s all sorts of remedies copper

ki laters that actually pull copper out

but vitiligo

is an autoimmune condition okay so the

body is making antibodies to attack

itself so we have a lot of inflammation

we have a lot of oxidation so we have a

defective antioxidant system and the

body is actually making too much

hydrogen peroxide this is a very

powerful oxidant and you can even try

this at home

put some hydrogen peroxide in your hair

and see what happens now don’t do this

it’ll actually bleach the hair okay so

in your body that’s what’s actually

happening to your skin and the main

antioxidant that rids this hydrogen

peroxide uses copper and zinc so when

you have too much hydrogen peroxide it

can decrease this enzyme and if you have

enough of this enzyme you can counter

the hydrogen peroxide but in this

situation we have these cells that are

defective and we’re not able to make the

melanin in sufficient quantities so

there’s a couple things you can do you

can get a copper

cream and put that directly on the skin

to supply what your body needs to make

this enzyme okay number two you can take

some zinc because this is involved in

this very powerful antioxidant start

building up your defenses against this

oxidation and number three vitamin d3

okay why vitamin d3 why is that good for

vitiligo well it’s good for autoimmune

conditions but if you think about what

is the medical treatment for vitiligo

besides UV light or a photo therapy is

corticosteroids like prednisone so they

use prednisone and dealing with

autoimmune conditions guess what vitamin

d3 is it’s also a steroid d3 will help

build up your body’s own natural

steroids and it’s also a very powerful

immune regulator to help the immune

system as well as decrease the

inflammation involved in this condition

so number one do the copper cream zinc

and vitamin d3 alright thanks for

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