The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
20 Mar 2025
Chapter 1: What is hydrogen water and its potential health benefits?
Our last universal common ancestor, the single cell organism that spawned all life on this planet, actually consumed hydrogen as its fuel source.
When I talk about hydrogen in the water, their reaction is, well, doesn't the gas just float to the top, go out into the atmosphere? How are you able to ingest the hydrogen gas and have it create its therapeutic effect in the body?
Hydrogen water gets into the gut a lot better than inhalation. They elevate different tissues in different capacities. It's better for a lot of these metabolic conditions.
there is a significant improvement in mental alertness almost replaced caffeine with hydrogen i feel the difference you don't feel stimulated but you just feel more clean and clear and awake there are a lot of people that poo-poo the hydrogen tablets as a therapeutic measure for reducing inflammation hydrogen is in fact a weak antioxidant in vitro and it's only driving towards homeostasis and this is actually critically important because
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
And as most of you guys know, I am way down the rabbit hole and a big, big proponent of hydrogen gas, hydrogen water, as a way to reduce inflammation, improve our circulation, as a way to actually just make this a part of our health and wellness journey.
And I am so excited for today's guest because we are going to go deep down the rabbit hole of the science behind hydrogen gas and how this gas, this simple gas, can change the trajectory of your health journey. And I've been using hydrogen water for years now. I was a big proponent of using it for exercise, for improving performance. But now we have the scientifically proven
validated research to really support some of the claims. And we probably have the world's most renowned expert on the podcast today developed and patented the first clinically valid hydrogen tablet, which I use every day, H2 tabs.
But I really want to go down the rabbit hole of the research into how can hydrogen gas be simply incorporated into your life and make a major improvement on your health journey. So welcome to the podcast, Alex Tarnova. Tarnava. Tarnava. You know, there's a common theme, and my viewers hear me talk about this all the time, that runs through most of my podcasts.
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Chapter 2: How did Alex Tarnava begin his journey with hydrogen water?
metabolic impaired middle-aged people usually uses about 12 ounces 333 times a day and on the elderly we used a cup so we used 250 milliliters or eight ounces because the point is any amount helps but for so many to say okay i'm going to put this into my daily routine i'm going to take a room temperature glass bottle of water drop a tablet or two in it um and then chug it as fast as you can
And it's really important. You want to drink it on an empty stomach, right? So a lot of companies in hydrogen water don't actually talk about this because they don't understand it very well. But one, say you are producing a bit of hydrogen from consuming fiber. You don't want to be competing with that, right? You want that separately.
But two, one of my patents involves I've turned hydrogen water and various fibers into dense foams and gels, right? It stabilizes. So if you eat it at a time where you've just had some fiber, you might not be getting rapid uptake into your system, which can affect the therapeutic value. So what we're learning right now in the hydrogen research We haven't found a plateau yet, right?
For most indications. So some indications we need vastly higher amounts of hydrogen that then we can reasonably. Reasonably intense exercise, severe metabolic syndrome, liver health. For instance, liver health, we need 10 times more exercise to start seeing an effect. So dose and concentration is critically important.
You want to get the dosing right to have a better effect on the body.
But for the average person that's listening to this podcast, it says I'm sold one to three times a day, three times a day, three times a day, the most water that you can comfortably chug down in one to three gulps, you know, within 15 to 30 seconds and on an empty stomach. So sometimes I like is in the morning. or right before you exercise. Yeah, you know, that's what I do.
Or I do middle, middle of the afternoon or right before dinner, like you can eat 510 minutes after you drink the hydrogen water, just don't drink it after you eat.
Yeah. And you know, what I find is that if I do the hydrogen first, I really don't want caffeine. I'm just, you know, I'm more wide awake, more focused, more clear. And then I'm exit with the
an amino acid product you know it's just essential amino acids and and then i just go in and and hit the gym and i'm always looking for ways that we can kind of biostack things take something like um you know the fluid that's going to hydrate you and make it anti-inflammatory by lowering its orp which it clearly does um but then also there must be some effect on
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