The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
144. What Makes Hydrogen Rich Water So Special for Your Health?
27 Feb 2025
Chapter 1: Why is hydrogen water significant for health?
I want to take a little deep dive into hydrogen water and hydrogen gas in general and some of the benefits in the human body. Hydrogen is everywhere, very tiny, it's very light, and it has some really, really unique properties. One of them is its property to act like an antioxidant and reduce inflammation.
when we look at the evidence on hydrogen water because there are a lot of pundits out there saying that hydrogen gas and water has no effect in the human body nothing could be further from the truth studies have explored the use of hydrogen in various age-related inflammatory conditions like osteoarthritis neurodegenerative diseases and sepsis where it may help alleviate tissue damage and improve functional outcomes this is very real science hydrogen gas has tremendously positive benefits in the human body
One of the reasons why I'm really advocating for hydrogen water is so you can get them to
Hey guys, I want to talk about some awesome research that I've been studying on the effects of hydrogen-rich water on the human body, how it can reduce inflammation, how it can lengthen telomeres, how it can improve muscle function, brain function, short-term recall, memory, sleep, and other markers of aging and general markers of inflammation.
I want to take a deep dive into the science right now, so let's get to work. This is absolutely one of my favorite topics and one I get a lot of flack for all the time. So I want to take a little deep dive into hydrogen water and hydrogen gas in general and some of the benefits in the human body. First of all, hydrogen is the lightest element on earth.
It's actually the most abundant element in the entire universe. So hydrogen is everywhere. It's very tiny, it's very light, and it has some really, really unique properties. One of them is its property to act like an antioxidant. One of it is the property to actually reduce inflammation. And I want to talk a little bit about the science of that.
But particularly today, one of the reasons why I'm really advocating for hydrogen water and putting hydrogen tablets in your water so you can get them to effervesce into clean hydrogen gas that you can drink is because today's topic is about the microvasculature system. So many of us don't realize that when we look at our vascular system, we have arteries and we have veins.
But believe it or not, more than 70% of our circulation is actually not conducted by the heart. The 30% of our circulation that is done by the heart are our major arteries and our major veins, meaning there's pressure behind them to send blood to the tissues. There's pressure to return it from the tissues. But about 70% of our circulatory system is what we call microvascular.
It's tiny little capillaries. Remember, these capillaries, this microvasculature is so tiny, smaller sometimes than a human hair, that even only a single cell can fit into this capillary system and sometimes exchange gas with the lung or deliver gases to tissue, remove gases from the tissue. So think about 70% of your circulation What if this part of our circulation gets compromised?
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Chapter 2: What evidence supports the benefits of hydrogen water?
It was believed to exert its anti-inflammatory effect by selectively scavenging harmful reactive oxygen species. So remember, when something is an antioxidant, it reduces inflammation. When something causes oxidation, it is causing inflammation, and this can be reduced by putting the two together to neutralize that inflammatory cascade.
Studies have explored the use of hydrogen in various age-related inflammatory conditions like osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases, and sepsis, where it may help alleviate tissue damage and improve functional outcomes. Why would hydrogen be so good at getting to tissues and improving inflammatory-related conditions in the tissues, like peripheral neuropathy, like poor circulation?
Because that is microvascular circulation. This very light, very tiny element crosses the blood-brain barrier very easily, and it is also considered harmless to human beings. I mean, the vast majority of us by weight are water, and hydrogen makes up the majority of water, hydrogen gas.
Hydrogen can be administered through inhalation of hydrogen gas, drinking hydrogen-rich water, or via intravenous infusion of hydrogen-saturated saline. That's not what we're talking about today. We're talking specifically about this study. in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology.
And what was really fascinating about this was that the outcomes in this study, and we actually, I'm going to show you a separate one now, benefits of hydrogen water. I'm going to link this study as well. Extra healthy or a hoax. This was a systemic review of different mechanisms of getting hydrogen gas or hydrogen water into the body.
It's been shown to be beneficial in mitigating oxidative stress-induced damage through its anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic pathways. and they conducted a systemic review and they looked at a number of articles, total of 25 articles were included in the systemic review. So let's go down and see what it concluded. So we're in the conclusion section.
Said that it was found that drinking hydrogen rich water for six months, this was in the 70 year and older group, that drinking hydrogen rich water for six months was harmless and also had a favorable effect on many of the factors associated with aging. Factors like pain, metabolic processes in the brain, strength in the lower extremities, and several other factors.
So reducing inflammatory factors, improving strength, lengthening telomeres, which is one of the hallmarks of aging, improving different pathways that they were measuring in the brain, improving methylation, they used a TET-2 marker to actually measure methylation, And so you can get these. I used to get a lot of flack for promoting these hydrogen bottles, which I'm still a big fan of.
But they're $250 to $300. You can get compressed magnesium, elemental magnesium tablets, which are called H2 tabs, which is what I take every day. Get high part per million hydrogen water for less than a dollar a day. I use these guys. They're called... H2 tabs, you can get them at drinkh2tab.com. It's just drinkh2tab.com. They're less than a dollar a day.
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