Questions and answers: Using hydrogen-rich drinking water and hydrogen inhalation

Inhaling gaseous hydrogen or drinking hydrogen-enriched drinking water offers significant prophylactic and therapeutic benefits. Biomedical research shows that additional hydrogen has benefits in the body. On the one hand, oxidative stress and inflammation are reduced and taking it leads to a steady decline in joint diseases such as arthritis, which are based on oxidative stress and inflammation. Significant treatment successes have been achieved with hydrogen gas in Parkinson’s patients. Many other clinical pictures have been examined in studies and came to the same convincing conclusion.

Studies have even shown that hydrogen has a positive effect on losing weight by stimulating energy metabolism. An increase in growth hormone and therefore an increase in muscle tissue has been noted in athletes. Test subjects felt “energized” by being away. This enrichment is due to the effect of hydrogen on the mitochondria – the “energy power plants” in our cells.
Reduction equivalents to produce energy in the form of ATP are stimulated and other forms of energy become usable. Inflammation and oxidative stress are inhibited. After taking hydrogen you feel fresher, more alert and clearer in your head.

Many compounds of nutrients and vitamins consist of hydrogen compounds and bacteria also produce hydrogen in the human intestine. However, this is not sufficient for many processes in the body and it has been proven to be organically helpful to absorb additional hydrogen. Among other things, there are options for dissolving hydrogen in drinking water or inhaling it via an inhaler.
Even small additional amounts of molecular hydrogen have been proven to provide therapeutic benefits and bring health and performance-enhancing benefits.

When inhaled, the hydrogen goes directly through the lungs into the bloodstream. At Kyushu University in Japan, they found that drinking hydrogen water will cause an increase in the gastrointestinal hormone ghrelin in the stomach. Ghrelin is partly responsible for controlling feelings of hunger and satiety and is a very good neuroprotector and anti-inflammatory. The hormone FGF21 is secreted, which is responsible for metabolic disorders and subsequently increases DNA repair mechanisms.

The hydrogen works very quickly in the body. Due to the extremely small size of the hydrogen molecules, they can penetrate cell membranes and overcome barriers in the body. No other antioxidant can do this. Vitamins are fat-soluble, hydrophobic and usually remain in cell tissue. It has been found that excessive use of these antioxidants as supplements can lead to adverse health effects.

Hydrogen, on the other hand, has an effect in all areas of the body such as the blood, organs, muscles, bones and brain from around 5 to 10 minutes after ingestion. The molecules bind disruptive oxygen radicals in the cells, combine to form water and leave the body just as quickly, whether as excess hydrogen or bound as water with the oxygen radicals, which are transported out of the body in this way. After about 1 to 2 hours, the H2 saturation in the body is back to its original level and the organism is ready for a new application. Time intervals are helpful in administration. When inhaling Brown’s gas with 2/3 hydrogen and 1/3 oxygen, the time it stays in the body is longer.

Hydrogen is quickly volatile and the saturation gases out quickly after preparation in open jars within 20-30 minutes to 2 hours. So you should drink the hydrogen-rich water immediately after preparing it. With the hydrogen booster, the amount in the H2Master of 200-300 ml practically corresponds to a drinking glass. This amount can be drunk several times a day.

H2 inhalation with BestElements inhalers can also be carried out several times a day from 30 minutes to several hours. The well-being during prophylaxis and performance improvement or the therapy goal decide this. There is no upper limit and no too much, neither in the prophylactic nor in the therapeutic area. What is not absorbed by the body is exhaled or escapes through the skin.

The inhalation can be carried out hourly in the therapy center or integrated into everyday life at home. You can inhale while working at your desk or comfortably in an armchair or on the couch.

In general, the purer the water, the easier it is for our bodies. Water has a transport function that transports nutrients within our body and we generally obtain nutrients and minerals from a balanced and varied diet. You couldn’t cover your daily mineral needs with mineral water; the content in the water in the form of bound salts is often not sufficient, even just to support it (further information on this here).

Tap water has been proven to contain many substances that are not even tested in drinking water analysis. Even if the limit values of the approximately 50 tested substances are not exceeded, drug residues, phthalates, bisphenols, hormone-like substances, PFAS, drug residues and many other new compounds can be contained in the water that waterworks cannot easily remove (further information here) .

Filtered water – ideally through reverse osmosis – has proven to be very effective. Pure water without impurities is the best for the organism to maintain its full functioning. Filtered water also enables the full potential of hydrogen boosters. (more information about reverse osmosis here)

There are also oxygen radicals that are responsible and helpful for our body’s defenses. These have a lower binding force and are not combated by hydrogen. Only the highly aggressive, binding free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as the toxic and cell-damaging hydroxyl radical (OH), which arise during energy metabolism in the cells and which the body cannot otherwise break down, combine with the hydrogen molecules. Such cell damage and reproductive errors lead to functional disorders and premature aging processes.

Hydrogen acts exactly at these points as a so-called selective antioxidant by only eliminating cell-damaging oxygen radicals and removing them from the body as a water compound. Useful free radicals, such as nitric oxide (NO), which are responsible for the expansion of blood vessels in our veins or which are needed by the immune system to combat microorganisms, viruses and toxins, are retained.

Among other things, particulate matter, a particularly serious form of air pollution, damages our health by converting peroxides in the lungs into more reactive species such as hydroxyl radicals, as researched at the Max Planck Institute. It is therefore important to minimize fine dust as best as possible. This can be done at home and in offices with effective air purifiers.

Water is generally able to absorb gaseous hydrogen, although hydrogen is only present in the atmosphere in the minimum per mille range. Hydrogen is technically produced through what is known as electrolysis, but this can be done using different technologies. During this process, water (H20) is separated into hydrogen and oxygen.

In this way, one liter of water can absorb 1.6 mg of hydrogen at normal pressure. This corresponds to 1.6 ppm (parts per million) or 1600 ppb (parts per trillion). Saturation can be increased by applying pressure in a container and good hydrogen boosters, such as the H2Master, achieve H2 saturations of 5140 ppb, which have been proven in the laboratory.

The hydrogen is dissolved in the water in invisible nanobubbles, visible bubbles rise during the process and many of them dissolve. The invisible nanobubbles created by the bubbling are crucial for the hydrogen content. Water temperatures of around 35°C have proven to be the optimal processing and drinking temperature to achieve the highest values. The water remains still water, the bubbles have no fizzy effect like carbonic acid. That’s not intentional either.

Hydrogen is formed at the cathode during electrolysis. In order for the protons to move from the anode to the cathode, modern devices use a proton exchange membrane (PEM). This enables ion exchange best in the construction of a solid polymer electrolyte (SPE). The H2Master hydrogen boosters work with this technology. The maintenance effort is extremely low and is almost zero. Only lime deposits when using hard water need to be removed, similar to kitchen machines. This is not the case with filtered water.

Modern inhalers also use this technology and do not require media such as potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) for electrolysis, which can cause skin irritation and serious eye damage/irritation and require increased maintenance. Hydrogen inhalers like these H2 inhalers from BestElements work with double-distilled water, which only needs to be refilled when necessary. There is no additional maintenance required, the functionality is safe and easy for users to use.

The simplest and best method for detecting the amount of dissolved hydrogen in drinking water is to use special drops of a reagent solution that use methylene blue and a portion of platinum to cause a reaction with the hydrogen, which decolorizes the solution. One drop corresponds to 0.1 ppm. 10 drops therefore demonstrate a dissolved hydrogen content of 1 ppm = 1000 ppb in the water.

The measurement with a measuring device for the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP, redox), which measures the redox value and thus the oxidizing ability of the water, is inaccurate and not very meaningful. A value of -500 mV could correspond to a hydrogen content of 1000 ppm or even just 100 ppm, which would be significantly less therapeutically effective. Only a neutral or positive ORP value would prove the absence of dissolved hydrogen. The higher the value, the higher the oxidizing properties of the water. This value plays a role when disinfecting pools with chlorine.

Likewise, banging effects with a lighter under a jet of hydrogen water say nothing about H2 saturation – only that hydrogen is present in bubbles in the water jet, which can then quickly dissolve due to the movement of the water and do not end up in the water glass or in the body.

Gas-liquid chromatography is used in laboratories, which provides an exact value of the chemical composition.

Sources: National Institutes of Health, Nature Medicine Journal, Max Planck Institute, Naomi Kamimura, Kiyomi Nishimaki, MSc. PhD Tyler W. LeBaron, Molecular Hydrogen Institute, Ikuro Ohsawa, Shigeo Ohta