Copper wire kills all mold forever? Real antimicrobial copper, false mold-remediation leap

[0.00 --> 3.68] Uncopper wire kills all mold forever. [3.68 --> 6.32] Why is this science forbidden? [6.32 --> 12.64] There is a piece of copper wire sitting in any hardware store right now that costs less than $5. [12.64 --> 19.76] When placed near a surface exposed to moisture, it kills every mold species at contacts and stops regrowth permanently, [19.76 --> 23.68] not for weeks, not for months, permanently. [23.68 --> 28.72] The United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, confirmed it. [28.72 --> 37.92] The EPA registered copper as the first and only solid surface material in history with certified antimicrobial public health claims. [37.92 --> 43.44] 275 different copper alloys pass their most rigorous testing protocols. [43.44 --> 50.24] Every single one killed 99.9% of dangerous organisms within two hours of contact. [50.24 --> 56.64] Stainless steel, the material used in almost every modern building, killed nothing. [56.64 --> 60.48] 0% after 28 straight days. [60.48 --> 64.24] And here is the part that should make you stop everything. [64.24 --> 66.08] This science is not new. [66.08 --> 67.52] It is not recent. [67.52 --> 69.76] It is over 4,000 years old. [69.76 --> 77.44] And it has been slowly and systematically replaced by an industry that needs you to keep buying bottles every single month forever. [77.44 --> 81.28] This is the story of the most powerful natural fungicide on earth, [81.28 --> 86.08] and why a $2.2 billion industry needs you to never learn how it works. [87.04 --> 93.28] Right now, 45 million buildings in the United States have unhealthy levels of mold growing inside the walls. [94.08 --> 99.52] That number comes from peer-reviewed research published in the journal Indoor Air by Moudari and Fisk. [100.48 --> 109.12] Those same researchers found that 21% of all asthma cases in America are directly caused by mold and dampness exposure inside the home. [110.08 --> 112.16] Not seasonal allergies. [112.16 --> 114.72] Not temporary sensitivity. [114.72 --> 119.52] The kind of asthma that puts children in the emergency room every year. [119.52 --> 124.32] CDC and the World Health Organization both confirm these findings. [124.32 --> 130.72] Living in a building with mold, measurably increases your risk of developing respiratory disease. [130.72 --> 134.32] And the real answer is not sitting behind a cash register. [134.32 --> 138.96] It is sitting inside the walls of any building that still has copper plumbing. [139.36 --> 142.96] The element itself has been fighting mold for your entire life, [142.96 --> 145.36] and no one told you it could do it everywhere else too. [146.16 --> 149.60] This video is only the beginning of what the cleaning industry buried. [150.80 --> 155.68] Let us go back together to 1882, the vineyards of Bordeaux, France. [155.68 --> 161.84] A French botanist named Pierre-Marie Alexis Millardet is walking through a vineyard that is being destroyed. [162.32 --> 168.32] A fungal plague called Downey Mildew has been devastating French grapevine since the 1870s. [168.40 --> 171.76] The entire wine industry is collapsing and growers are desperate. [172.40 --> 176.48] Millardet is studying the disease when he notices something that makes him stop walking. [176.96 --> 179.68] The vine's closest to the road are completely healthy. [180.16 --> 184.88] Every other vine in the field is infected, dying, covered in white fungal growth, [184.88 --> 188.72] but the ones nearest the road are green, thriving, untouched. [189.28 --> 190.24] He investigates. [191.52 --> 196.64] A vineyard manager named Ernest David explains that they had been spraying those roadside vines [196.64 --> 200.64] with a mixture of copper sulfate and lime, not to fight disease, [200.64 --> 205.92] but to make the grapes taste bitter and look ugly so that people walking past would stop stealing them. [207.36 --> 211.44] Copper had been killing the fungus the entire time, and no one had even intended it. [212.40 --> 216.40] Millardet spent the next three years running formal trials at Chateau d'Ozac. [217.28 --> 222.64] By 1885, he published his findings and announced to the world that he had discovered a cure for the [222.64 --> 227.68] mildew that was destroying France. The mixture became known as Bordeaux mixture. [228.24 --> 232.48] It became the first fungicide ever used at commercial scale, anywhere on earth. [233.36 --> 236.40] And here's the part that every history of agriculture skips. [237.36 --> 241.44] Bordeaux mixture worked so well that it did not just save French wine, [241.44 --> 247.44] it saved the Irish potato crop from blight, it saved banana plantations across Latin America, [247.44 --> 249.44] it saved orchards on every continent. [250.08 --> 254.88] A simple copper compound became the single most important discovery in the history of [254.88 --> 262.24] protecting food from fungal destruction. 140 years later, it is still used today in organic farming [262.24 --> 268.40] around the world. But Millardet was not even close to being the first person to understand what [268.40 --> 276.32] copper does to fungus. The Egyptians documented copper as a sterilization agent around 2400 BC [276.32 --> 281.60] in a medical text called the Smith Papyrus. They used copper to purify drinking water [281.60 --> 286.24] and to treat infected wounds over 4,000 years ago. In ancient Greece, [286.24 --> 291.28] Hippocrates prescribed copper infused water for respiratory infections and digestive illness. [292.00 --> 297.12] Persian royalty carried water and copper vessels across desert journeys because it stayed fresh [297.12 --> 300.64] and pure. In India, Ayurvedic medicine has stored