There have been claims that rh negative blood unlike rh positive blood is copper based and that supposedly the term “blue blood” comes from that. Both claims are untrue. What is however true is that there are very small amounts of copper in everyone’s human blood. And that is equally in both: rh negatives and rh positives. Normally most of the copper in your blood is carried by a protein called ceruloplasmin. Adults have 50 and 80 milligrams (mg) of copper in their body, mostly in muscle and the liver. Copper helps make melanin, bone, and connective tissue. It also helps with many other processes in your body. You normally get copper through your diet, in foods like liver and … Continue reading There is SOME copper in our blood