(this should probably get posted to the off-topic list, but I'll go ahead this last time with this last question:) >
> > Could somebody please explain "copper-based" blood to me, and more about the > > animals in S.America that have copper based blood? Thanks. > > Couldn't find anything on animals in SA specifically, but several sites do > discuss copper based blood: > http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=89314165&form=6&db= m&Dopt=r Okay, The following quote came from this site: "Hemocyanins are the oxygen-transporting proteins in arthropods and molluscs, the oxygen is bound by two copper atoms. Spectroscopic studies on the active site show similarities to the active site of a further group of copper-containing proteins, the tyrosinases." I'm not sure what "tyrosinases" are, but I do know that I have been deficient in tyrosine, and taking it greatly improved my mood when I took it for depression, i.e., I was immobile until I took it, and it helped clear it up and get me mentally "there" again. I have also read that it is an important anti-aging amino-acid, and also that many of us are deficient in copper, and that adding some copper to our diets can clear up a lot of ills. Any comments / insights on "tyrosinases" , tyrosine,and copper connections? > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
