Copper Deficiency

Copper is a trace element your body needs only in tiny amounts — but without it, almost nothing works. It is embedded in the energy production of your cells, in the formation of connective tissue, in iron utilization, in the nervous system. When it is lacking, this shows on many levels: exhaustion, anemia, brittle bones, neurological disorders, an immune system that no longer functions properly. Medicine looks for absorption and utilization disorders, nutritional deficits, genetic factors.

But there is another level. Copper stands symbolically for flexibility, conductivity, and warmth — a metal that can be bent without breaking, that conducts energy, and that has been associated for millennia with the feminine, the receptive, the connecting. When your body cannot absorb or utilise copper, a deeper question arises: what in you resists being flexible, receptive, and permeable?