Of late, many people
are pushing the benefits of “special” water – alkaline water, pi water,
hydrogen water, etc. My first
impression, being a pharmacist, is that these must be scams. How can an element as simple as water
purportedly cures various ailments, from the simplest fever to the complex
disease of cancer?
I started doing some
research to see if there’s any scientific basis at all to support these
claims. Turns out, there are strong
scientific rationale and research behind hydrogen water.
At its most
simplistic level, molecular hydrogen improves (note that I say improves, not
cures) many disease conditions by virtue that it is an extremely powerful
antioxidant. We’ve all been told about
how antioxidant is good for the body and molecular hydrogen is one of the most
powerful antioxidant. Free radicals are prevalent
in modern living and are the root cause of many diseases, so consumption of antioxidants
help combat the deleterious effects of free radicals. The preferred antioxidant should be
substances with (1) low molecular weight, so they can slip from the digestive
tract to the bloodstream undamaged, (2) strong anti-oxidant ability, and (3)
ability to defuse a wide range of free radicals.
The development of
hydrogen water began with the discovery that many of the healing/holy water
such as Lourdes in France, Tlacote in Mexico, Nordenau in Germany, Nadana in
India and Hita Tenryosui in Japan has a high concentration of hydrogen. From what I now know, molecular hydrogen
satisfies at least the first two criteria for the preferred antioxidant – it
has powerful reducing (anti-oxidant) properties, and hydrogen is the smallest
molecule known in science. Japanese
scientists began active research on the role of molecular hydrogen only since
2007, so it’s a new area of scientific research. As of 2014, there are more than 400
scientific publications (including in-vitro, animal as well as human studies) on
the role of molecular hydrogen in various disease states.
Looking just at studies
conducted in human, hydrogen water has shown beneficial effects in chronic
hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, endothelial function, metabolic syndrome and
diabetes, chemotherapy, skin conditions, Parkinson’s and acute cerebral events;
and I believe in years to come, in other disease states where oxidative stress
is an underlying pathology.
As a result, my family has started consuming Izumio hydrogen water.
Not that we have any health conditions but because we believe that prevention is better than cure, and consumption of Izumio will certainly reduce the damaging effects of free radicals in our bodies. If you have a keen interest to ensure optimal health for you and your family and would like to find out more about Izumio, drop me a note at amomsdiary@yahoo.com.
My other posts on Izumio and Super Lutein can be found here:
Free radicals, antioxidants and Izumio
Izumio and eczema
My personal story - Izumio for eczema
Super Lutein
