Hydrogen water as a foundation for all medicine?
Regular intake of hydrogen water may provide major health benefits
If we neutralize the excess of free radicals, we preserve beautiful skin for longer
When an apple turns brown, it is like when iron rusts, it oxidizes.
This is a process we do not want our cell membranes to be exposed to.
What is hydrogen water?
Hydrogen water should be purified water infused with molecular hydrogen (H2). This can be done by infusion of hydrogen gas, by a special form of electrolysis, or by using "effervescent tablets" in the drinking water. The amount of molecular hydrogen (H2) is often stated in mg per liter or parts per million (ppm). Hydrogen is the smallest bioavailable molecule and the most energy-rich we know of. Many people know hydrogen in combination with oxygen as oxyhydrogen gas because it explodes when ignited and forms water (H2O). The energy yield during combustion is as high as 34.2 Kcal/g, while gasoline and long-chain fatty acids provide only about 10 Kcal/g. Sugar and protein provide no more than about 4 Kcal/g.
The hydrogen molecule has two free electrons that can neutralize free radicals, with water (H2O) as the end product. A fundamental effect of consuming hydrogen water is its ability to counteract inflammation in the body. The health effects have been confirmed in clinical trials and controlled studies.
Fundamental properties:
- Anti-inflammatory (whole body)
- A selective antioxidant
- Supports natural gene expression
- Counteracts allergies
- Counteracts cell death (healthy cells)
- Counteracts the aging process
- Reduces pain
- Protects the skin
- Increases metabolism
- Regenerates other antioxidants
- Counteracts muscle fatigue
- Reduces the occurrence of lactic acid during physical exertion
- Counteracts diabetes
- Counteracts the growth of cancer cells
- Positively affects our ability to think, intellectual and mental performance
- Helps protect DNA and RNA
- Counteracts radiation damage
- Non-toxic regardless of intake, with no known side effects
Other known effects
Daily intake of pure hydrogen water has been shown to be able to improve mood, promote weight loss (for those who need it), reduce blood sugar, counteract cancer, protect the brain, promote good function in the eyes and joints, provide more beautiful skin, counteract muscle fatigue, increase lifespan, promote wound healing, and contribute to a better acid-base balance in the body. More and more athletes are drinking hydrogen water for increased performance. Positive health effects are reported in nearly all of the body’s important organs, such as the brain, eyes, lungs, liver, and heart.
Studies and documented health effects:
- Reduction of muscle fatigue during intensive training
- Reduction of oxidative stress after radiation therapy
- Positive effects in people with insulin resistance
- Positive effects in people with type 2 diabetes
- May have a preventive effect against Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders
- May have a positive effect on mood
- Has anti-inflammatory effects
- Contributes to increased energy metabolism and thereby to weight reduction
- May help protect the mitochondria and increase ATP production
- Daily bathing of the face in hydrogen water significantly reduced the extent of wrinkles over 3 months
- Contributes to faster wound healing
- May counteract overactive bladder
- May improve heart function
- May counteract hair loss
- May reduce allergic reactions
- May help reduce the effects of poisoning
How to get much more molecular hydrogen
You can drink and bathe in hydrogen water and inhale hydrogen gas. Availability and cost may be limiting factors for most of us. At Uno Vita, we explore all possibilities and will do our part to ensure that as many people as possible gain access. For practical reasons, it is currently simplest and most sensible to drink hydrogen water. You can acquire a hydrogen bottle (quality and functionality are important), a hydrogen vortex machine, or a hydrogen machine that you can connect to the water filter or let it draw purified water from a container. The advantage of the latter is that it has no delay, but produces as much hydrogen water as you want instantly.
Different ways to produce hydrogen water.
If you do not see microbubbles in the water, the system is not producing hydrogen gas. There are basically 2 types of hydrogen water generators on the market (there are several ways to produce hydrogen).
1. The best/safest. Professional hydrogen water generators produce hydrogen gas (H2), which can donate electrons and acts as an antioxidant. Off-gases (any residual chlorine, ozone, oxygen, etc.) are separated into a dedicated outlet and are not mixed into the water. Their distinguishing feature is that they have a PEM membrane (proton exchange membrane) that is capable of allowing only H2 into the water.
2. Good options that require completely pure water (well purified). These generators use a simpler form of electrolysis in which hydrogen gas is separated and produced, then released into the water. This also works perfectly well and it is the same hydrogen (same quality), but with these machines it is even more important that the water is completely pure (use one of our filters with ultrafiltration (UF) before production.
3. Poor solutions. There are many who want to sell hydrogen water and claim, for example, that so-called ionization machines are hydrogen machines. Most of these devices split the molecules in the water and primarily produce OH-, a hydroxyl radical, an oxidant NOT an antioxidant like H2, but also some hydrogen gas. This requires minerals to be present in the water (for example, we do not want to have extra calcium in the water).
Ionization machines also produce alkaline water at the same time (high pH, basic), which is not recommended for several reasons (a separate article about this is coming). The manufacturers often advertise a high negative reduction potential (- ORP), but this reduction potential has no antioxidant effect, unlike the negative electrical potential that pure hydrogen gas has. On a simple measuring device (an ORP meter), you may apparently get similar results (negative – ORP), but what caused the negative ORP is essential, as explained.
You can drink as much pure hydrogen water as you want.
If you do not have a water purifier or filtration system, you MUST boil the water and let it cool down before making hydrogen water, otherwise chlorine compounds in tap water may destroy the positive effects. Hydrogen machines contribute to an increased genuinely negative reduction potential (-ORP). One tip is to use the «push method» because hydrogen is normally produced in the intestine, there is always some free hydrogen in the blood. If you take a large glass of freshly made hydrogen water and drink it quickly (not cold, room temperature), you get high H2 levels in the blood, which then immediately neutralize oxidative stress at the cellular level very rapidly! This is undoubtedly the most effective way to use hydrogen water.
Free radicals are continuously formed, which we want to neutralize, and hydrogen is an effective way to do this
If you have questions about the text or products, you are welcome to send an email to
Jan F. Poleszynski: janp@unovita.com and/or to salg@unovita.com. More information and new products are and will be available at shop.unovita.com.
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