Copper kills 99.9% of bacteria within two hours!

Copper surfaces take out superbugs

[link to youtu.be]

ECRI Institute Lists Antimicrobial Copper as a Top 10 Technology to Watch in 2014

While copper's antimicrobial properties have been known for thousands of years, recent research piloted by the Copper Development Association (CDA) and funded by the Department of Defense proved that surfaces made from antimicrobial copper alloys like brass and bronze had 83 percent fewer bacteria on average compared to surfaces made from traditional materials.

[link to www.infectioncontroltoday.com]

Ronald McDonald House of Charleston, Antimicrobial Copper Renovation

[link to youtu.be]

I guess its too late to retrofit all the hospitals in the US in an effort to control the spread of ebola.

You need bacteria to live stupid.

Records from early civilizations demonstrate that copper can inhibit the growth of many different microorganisms. Reviews of modern literature indicate that copper slows or stops growth of many organisms, including bacteria, fungi, algae and yeast. Copper ions bind to contaminants and then disrupt key proteins and processes that are critical to microbial life.

Copper reduces microbes in a wide variety of equipment, including medical and scientific devices such as incubators. Years of experience show that copper wire, copper sulfate or even pennies added to water reservoirs of CO2 incubators significantly inhibit microbial growth. Moreover, solid copper surfaces clearly reduce the proliferation of contaminants.

[link to www.biospectrumasia.com]

There was a reason back in the old days that door knobs were made of copper or brass. It helped control the spread of disease and bacteria.

Thx! I asked a question on the other copper thread, and you just answered it!

Copper and its alloys (brasses, bronzes, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc, and others) are natural antimicrobial materials. Ancient civilizations exploited the antimicrobial properties of copper long before the concept of microbes became understood in the nineteenth century.[1][2] In addition to several copper medicinal preparations, it was also observed centuries ago that water contained in copper vessels or transported in copper conveyance systems was of better quality (i.e., no or little visible slime formation) than water contained or transported in other materials.

The antimicrobial properties of copper are still under active investigation. Molecular mechanisms responsible for the antibacterial action of copper have been a subject of intensive research. Scientists are also actively demonstrating the intrinsic efficacies of copper alloy "touch surfaces" to destroy a wide range of microorganisms that threaten public health.
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

You are welcome. I didn't know there was another "copper" thread.

I was talking to a friend on the phone today about how we no longer have copper pipes in our houses, copper door knobs, copper kettles/cook ware, brass/copper foot rests in bars, copper/brass railings or copper pennies. We laughed and said they must be getting rid of copper because its good for you. Then I started researching copper. I was really shocked by my findings. Who knew copper could kill deadly bacteria on contact? Not me..but I do now!

So we should be drinking both colloidal silver and copper? theres colloidal gold also.

Storing Drinking-water in Copper pots Kills Contaminating Diarrhoeagenic Bacteria

Microbially-unsafe water is still a major concern in most developing countries. Although many water-purification methods exist, these are expensive and beyond the reach of many people, especially in rural areas. Ayurveda recommends the use of copper for storing drinking-water. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of copper pot on microbially-contaminated drinking-water
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Studies have shown that copper surfaces completely kill bacteria. E. coli inoculated on to copper coupons were completely killed. The studies concluded that the copper ions brought about complete killing of bacteria by membrane damage However, the mechanism of action of copper on bacteria is not completely understood.
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

I don't know about the silver but I'm going to start drinking everything out of a Moscow Mule copper mug.

What are the applications of copper-silver ionization?

Copper-silver ionization is suitable for a large number of applications. It became of interest when NASA used copper-silver ionization for drinking water prodcution aboard Apollo space ships in 1960. The ion generator that was used, was the size of a matchbox.
Because of copper-silver ionization, drinking water could be produced safely in space without the use of chlorine.
[link to www.lenntech.com]

Title has iron poisoning in it.

Thx! I am now a collector of copper pennies! Lol

Make sure you only keep the pennies from 1982 and earlier. pre-1982 are 95% copper.

I just went through my change and found some! I am on it! Thank you so much. I will also be looking for mugs & the like as well :)

So OP....are you taping the pennies to your body? Dropping them in your drinking water? Swallowing them whole? What are you doing with them to benefit your health?

Hi!
We had less illness when money was made of copper and silver!
HAND SANITIZER?

Below are more links for your research a few years ago there were only a few articles related to research and Mad Cow disease now there are numerous links a few I have listed below.

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Mad Cow And Related Diseases: Copper Linked To Normal Functioning Of Prions
A team of NC State physicists, led by Miroslav Hodak and Jerry Bernholc, has found that when PrPs bind with copper in the human body, their structure becomes more stable and less likely to misfold or aggregate.

"We believe that a prion protein's normal function is to serve as a copper buffer in the human body, binding with copper ions and keeping those ions from damaging human tissue," Hodak says.
[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

A Case for the Role of Copper Deficiency in "Mad-Cow" Disease and Human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

It has been recognized for centuries that copper plays a vital role in medicine. Since 1928, we have also known that copper is an essential element in human, animal and plant nutrition.

Research has suggested that copper also has an important role to play in the prevention or moderation of certain neurodegenerative diseases including the polyglutamine diseases (such as Friedrich ataxia and Huntington's Disease), Parkinson's Disease, Wilson's and Menkes' Diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease, also called "Motor Neuron Disease" in the UK), and Alzheimer's Disease. 5 It has recently been suggested that copper also affects a newly identified class of ailments known as prion diseases, which are described below.

[link to www.copper.org]

The cellular prion protein binds copper in vivo
[link to www.mad-cow.org]

A Case for the Role of Copper Deficiency in "Mad-Cow" Disease and Human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
[link to www.unveilingthem.com]

A penny for your prions: Researchers study link between copper, mad cow disease
[link to phys.org]

General Health:

Copper may be key to reducing hospital-acquired infections
[link to www.healthcarebusinesstech.com]

Copper surfaces reduce the rate of health care-acquired infections in the ICU
[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

I read an article about large Tall mummy's found in China the strange thing is they are caucasian with red hair, anyway they were found with copper bracelets on for jewelry and I got to wondering if they wore them for more than just jewelry. I researched copper and it said everything the OP did but I did read wearing copper bracelet will leach copper into the bloodstream from our pores in the skin. This way of getting it is very good. I also bought a new copper cup and drink several cups of water a day out of it after it has sat for 5 or 6 hours.I would be careful buying copper to drink out of ,make sure it wasn't seamed with lead

Thanks Patriot..Good Stuff!

I remember when I was a kid (a very long time ago) lots of things were made out of copper or brass. Drinking fountains, most door handles, sink faucets, railings, most everything that came into contact with hands. I guess they knew what they were doing back then. It is only after the advent of antibiotics in 1938(?) that they stopped using copper to control disease.

Gee, how did that antibiotic thing work out for them? Now we have lots of antibiotic resistant disease. Looks like its time to go back to copper.

Old copper pipes had the tendency with time to leech out too much copper into the water piped into your home risking copper toxicity compounded by the use of untreated copper cookware.

However, in these days of fast or processed food consumption and fewer homemade meals copper deficiency is an issue much has iodine deficiency is problematic in our diets.

With the abundance of useless non-useable iron and mercury and other heavy metals in our diet, a chelation agent such as cilantro is a prudent easy addition to our diet.

As far as controlling infection colloidal silver, olive leaf, oil of oregano, copper rich foods and raw garlic is a great start. Mix it up

Top 10 Foods Highest in Copper
[link to www.healthaliciousness.com]

World's Healthiest Foods rich in copper
[link to www.whfoods.com]

Copper poisoning
[link to www.nlm.nih.gov]

Cilantro Chelation - That Can Save Your Life
[link to www.newmediaexplorer.org]

Copper is toxic. A prudent man would be extremely cautious about ingesting or supplementing with copper.