CellularIconoclast
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My anecdotal experience supports this. I don't think Ray was very bullish on copper supplementation, but in my experience it alleviated "low estrogen" symptoms from AI usage. Also many estrogen blockers coincidentally lowers ceruloplasmin. Methylene Blue is an example of this. Coffee also seems to alleviate "low estrogen" symptoms despite in theory being anti estrogenic, and if your theory is correct then the anti-iron effect of caffeine explains this.
Before seeing this post, I've recently been taking copper to balance zinc supplementation, which I take mostly to speed up recovery from the numerous colds I get, from having a kid in the 1st grade. Will keep doing so / experiment with its interaction with the AI.
Overall, I feel a lot better off of the AI for a few weeks, until estrogen gets too high. I'm not sure if the negative effects are from the AI itself, or just from it suppressing estrogen too much. Annoying to me that I need the AI, since my testosterone levels were naturally this high in the past, and I didn't need it then.