A thing I probably haven’t thought enough about is, “how much this will impact your rate of copper ingestion, and is that very bad?” My guess is that this is less important than the effects on infectious disease; it seems like it would need to increase your copper consumption by 100x in order to produce major negative health effects (https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp132-c2.pdf). I may try to be virtuous and do a fermi on this later but also I’d welcome someone else trying to do it.
Edited to add:
The most obvious effect of having too much copper is gastrointestinal distress. So if you try this and have stomach problems, maybe stop.
A bit more copper might actually be a good idea for people who also take zinc (see the zinc thread elsewhere in this post) as the body needs to keep both of these in some balance.
Dangerous levels of copper seem highly unlikely just from touching but you should probably avoid lining your pots and pans:
A thing I probably haven’t thought enough about is, “how much this will impact your rate of copper ingestion, and is that very bad?” My guess is that this is less important than the effects on infectious disease; it seems like it would need to increase your copper consumption by 100x in order to produce major negative health effects (https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp132-c2.pdf). I may try to be virtuous and do a fermi on this later but also I’d welcome someone else trying to do it.
Edited to add:
The most obvious effect of having too much copper is gastrointestinal distress. So if you try this and have stomach problems, maybe stop.
A bit more copper might actually be a good idea for people who also take zinc (see the zinc thread elsewhere in this post) as the body needs to keep both of these in some balance.
Dangerous levels of copper seem highly unlikely just from touching but you should probably avoid lining your pots and pans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity