Tough on Drugs

Copper helps move telecommunications signals across phone wires, allowing people to talk to one another across long distances. Tiny amounts of copper, within certain enzymes in the brain, also help form key neurotransmitters that allow brain cells to "talk" to one another. Scientists now have described how adequate amounts of copper are important to brain function. Their animal model studies suggest that levels of copper intake are critical to the fetus during pregnancy -- a concept called "nutritional programming."

Posted on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:00:00 EDT at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...084704.htm