[SunkenCiv]

copper, which humans need in trace amounts, can build up, causing symptoms often mistaken for MS, cerebral palsy, and some other things. It's very rare, and is a genetic mutation that makes sufferers unable to purge copper from their bodies. Examples of copper-rich foods are mushrooms. Anyway, its treatment is chelation therapy. I'd never heard of this real illness until a friend told me about it. He has it, and (at that time) believed he was the oldest living Wilson's Disease patient. Because its rare, it is often undiagnosed, and frequently unheard of by doctors. It's easy to diagnose apparently, if one knows what one is looking for.

Wilson's Disease:
http://www.wilsonsdisease.org/

[Coleus]

Thanks, I had "heard" of Wilson's disease once before but couldn't remember what it was all about.

Years ago, Carlton Fredericks talked on WOR radio and in his column in Prevention about high levels of copper in the blood causing mental illness. He went on to tell us a story about a teenage girl who was institutionalized with mental illness, turns out she had a high copper level in her blood from drinking tea in a copper lined pot and other reasons and once they found out, chelation an zinc therapy cured her of her mental illness.