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how does copper get in to your blood?

Please help! I want to know how does the copper get in to the blood. Do we it some type of food or something. I don't want to know what the blood actually taste like, to me it taste something like metal. So please help!

Answer:

Copper gets into your blood the same way all vitamins, minerals and food does through the gut. Copper is found in small doses in a lot of food. The metallic taste you describe is iron the main constituent of haemoglobin which gives blood the red colour and enables it to carry oxygen around the body. Our blood is not copper based - if it was it would be blue like a lobster's blood.
Blood is high in iron (it's what causes the red color). That's why it tastes metallic. Copper is in trace amounts in many foods. Also, if you have copper pipes in your house, you can get trace amounts of copper by drinking tap water (some filtration systems will remove it).
Blood, to me, tastes steel. I shouldn't have the body of reference to slim the steel taste all the way down to copper, but I've perpetually assumed that the style came from the red blood cells and the iron inside them. There is a plasma protein, known as ceruloplasm, which transports copper in your blood, so maybe that's where the copper taste is coming from.

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