Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table of chemical elements. Hydrogen is the smallest molecule known in nature.

Hydrogen can be burned to release energy to produce water. It is a very clean and pollution-free energy source. There are now hydrogen energy vehicles and airplanes. During diving, you can breathe high-pressure hydrogen to reduce the pressure on the body. Hydrogen has been studied and applied in the diving field for more than 80 years. It is a safe gas for diving, and no adverse effects on the human body have been found. With the deepening of the understanding of the application of hydrogen, the application of hydrogen in the fields of medical and health and agriculture continues to expand. There are a large number of application examples in the fields of medicine, agriculture, and animal husbandry, and there are very good application prospects.

In 2007, Japanese scientist Professor Shigeo Ohta published an article in the international authoritative journal "Nature Medicines", proving that 2% hydrogen inhalation can treat stroke, opening a new chapter in hydrogen medical research. In 2008, Professor Sun Xuejun, Second Military Medical University team published the second international and first domestic hydrogen medicine research report. Professor Sun Xuejun is the most important advocate and promoter of hydrogen medicine research in China, and he is known as the “first researcher of hydrogen moleculein China”. Hydrogen medicine has been researched for more than 10 years. So far, more than 1,200 articles have been published at home and abroad, covering nearly 200 types of diseases.

Many researchers have found that hydrogen can specifically neutralize toxic free radicals such as hydroxyl free radicals, but has no significant effect on the physiological functions of free radicals required by the human body. We call this "selective antioxidant", which is currently recognized as a theoretical explanationby hydrogen medical research. Hydrogen is the only antioxidant known to be selective to free radicals. Because it does not affect the free radicals required by the body to maintain life activities, there are no reports of hydrogen intervention in the normal physiological activities of the body, and there is no dosage limit in use. With the deepening of hydrogen research, it has been discovered that hydrogen has multiple key signal pathways in the body with regulating effect. It can be said that hydrogen is not only an antioxidant, its mechanism of action may be very complicated, scientific research has no end, and the research on the mechanism of hydrogen is still in the process of in-depth exploration.

As mentioned earlier, hydrogen is a selective antioxidant, which means that both hydrogen and vitamin C can resist oxidation, but the free radicals produced by the body can be roughly divided into two categories: one is needed by the body, the other is not needed by the body and is toxic. Vitamin C treats all free radicals "equally" and eliminates them all; hydrogen only eliminates free radicals that are not needed by the body and are highly toxic, such as hydroxyl free radicals. Because it does not eliminate the free radicals needed by the human body, a large amount of hydrogen supplementation will not affect the normal physiological functions of the body, but a large amount of vitamin supplementation may affect the normal life activities of the body.

Many friends who love hydrogen medicine tend to get emotional when they promote the effect of hydrogen medicine. It seems that they cannot express their love for hydrogen medicine without words such as the strongest and best. It is also one of the expressions to say that hydrogen is the strongest reducing agent. In fact, hydrogen is not the strongest reducing agent. It is basically correct to say that hydrogen is the best bio-antioxidant. It is wrong to say that it is the strongest reducing agent. The advantage of hydrogen is that it has a selective antioxidant effect, which is also the theoretical basis for the biological effects of hydrogen, selective antioxidant is not equal to the strongest antioxidant. Therefore, selectivity is the biggest advantage of hydrogen antioxidants, which is why other antioxidants such as vitamin C cannot achieve a wide range of biological effects. Therefore, hydrogen is not a strong reducing agent, but an ideal biological reducing agent among various antioxidants. Because hydrogen has the smallest molecular weight, it has a very strong penetrating ability, which is also an important internal reason why hydrogen plays a role.

Hydrogen medical research has a history of more than 10 years. Experts and scholars have discovered that hydrogen has a therapeutic effect on nearly 20 diseases, there are more than 1,200 research reports, more than 70 research reports from the National Natural Science Foundation of Hydrogen, more than 50 research reports, and 6 academicians experts participate and publish papers.

Hydrogen can treat diseases as a means of health care, the application of hydrogen has very solid academic support. Many experts and scholars have used a large number of animal models and cytological studies to prove the biological effects of hydrogen (for example, protection against diabetes, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, sepsis and tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy side effects), and many clinical studies have also shown that hydrogen has therapeutic effects on some human diseases (such as metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, reduced quality of life after cancer radiotherapy, side effects caused by uremic dialysis, fatigue after exercise, etc.).

Although the therapeutic effect of hydrogen on diseases has not been known for a long time, the biological safety of hydrogen has been extensively studied for a long time. It has been proved by diving medical research decades ago that breathing high pressure hydrogen for consecutive days will not cause any toxicdamageto divers. So far, almost all the subjects of oxyhydrogen diving research involve the issue of hydrogen safety. In particular, Sweden and France successfully conducted a series of human oxyhydrogen diving experiments, for example, during 1988-1989, the time of human oxyhydrogen diving in France was as long as 7,200 hours, which further shows that human breathing hydrogen and oxyhydrogen diving are safe. Since breathing high-pressure hydrogen is non-toxic, the intake of hydrogen under normal pressure is safer. With the continuous increase of hydrogen biological research, clinical research on hydrogen has gradually increased. So far, there is no evidence that hydrogen is harmful to the human body. The European Union and the United States government published information on the biological safety of hydrogen, showing that hydrogen does not have any acute or chronic toxicity to the human body under normal pressure. The National Health Commission issued a national standard for hydrogen as a food additive in December 2014, GB31633-2014 "National Food Safety Standard Food Additive-Hydrogen".

This is caused by a lack of understanding of medical research, although there are many articles that prove that hydrogen has a therapeutic effect on nearly 200 diseases, most of them are the results of animal experiments. In fact, there is a great gap between animal experiment research and population transformation application in the medical field. It cannot be said that animal experiment research is effective, but it must be useful when applied to the human body. We want to remind everyone that you must never come to the conclusion that "hydrogen can cure certain diseases" after seeing an animal experiment research topic. Why does hydrogen have a therapeutic effect on many diseases? The current research confirms that hydrogen has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-apoptotic effects. Inflammation, oxidative damage, and apoptosis are common cell pathological damages in the development and progression of most diseases. Therefore, it is not surprising that the effect of hydrogen is widespread. Hydrogen research is still deepening, and it may be determinedwhich types of diseases are the most effective for hydrogen through a large number of population applications in the end, and for these diseases, hydrogen can be widely used as a means of key promotion. Hydrogen is definitely not a "magic medicine", and we look forward to using the development results of clinical transformation of hydrogen medicine to prove this point.

There are many research evidences that hydrogen entering the human body will affect the physiological functions of the human body. The acceleration of blood circulation and changes in brain excitability have been detected so far. These changes will cause various somatosensory reactions to a certain extent. Relatively healthy people generally do not feel it. If it is a patient with a poor physical condition, it may respond stronger, this should be regarded as an adjustment response in the body’s repair process. If you start to increase slowly from a small dose, many reactions will be very slight. Therefore, the application of hydrogen varies from person to person. On the basis of ensuring safety, you should try to increase it slowly from a small dose, and reduce the dosage if you feel uncomfortable during use, try to avoid discomfort.

Hydrogen is not omnipotent and cannot solve all the problems of the human body and life. For example, hydrogen cannot replace oxygen and various nutrients, and the lack of these substances cannot be solved by hydrogen. Hydrogen only provides us with a new body health conditioning tool and method. It does not replace other useful methods, nor can it replace drugs to treat diseases. There is now a large amount of research evidence that hydrogen can treat some diseases, but most of the researches are only animal experiments. At present, hydrogen does not meet the standards of drugs and has not yet become a clinical treatment tool. When using hydrogen products to regulate the body, the superiority of medical methods in the treatment of diseases must not be denied.

Hydrogen is an almost absolutely safe tool for disease resistance. Because everyone can use it under any conditions, it will definitely play a huge role in preventing and delaying the onset of chronic diseases. It can even be a healthy lifestyle similar to optimizing dietary structure and increasingphysical activity. In the future, we may become accustomed to a good lifestyle like drinking hydrogen water on a daily basis. Few people can really adhere to a healthy lifestyle, we must have a very large willpower to persist for a long time. However, drinking water does not have such a problem,drinking water is an essential activity of life. You only need to change ordinary drinking water to drinking water containing hydrogen, that can bring health to everyone, drinking more hydrogen water is a healthy lifestyle habit that is very easy to cultivate.

The dose-effect relationship of hydrogen is an important question and has no clear answer. If you must give a specific answer, you can only give some references and suggestions. For example, the standard proposed by the International Hydrogen Medical Standards Committee is that the amount of drinking hydrogen water to supplement hydrogen, the hydrogen concentration in hydrogen water is not less than 0.5ppm, and at least 0.5 mg of hydrogen per person per day. For example, if the hydrogen concentration in hydrogen water is 2ppm, you only need to drink 500ml of hydrogen water every day, if it is 1ppm, you need 1000ml. Inhale hydrogen as much as possible for more than 1 hour, so that the various organs of the body can dissolve the maximum amount of hydrogen and then play a role. Hydrogen is not toxic,if you want to give full play to its effects, you should use a combination of multiple methods (inhalation of hydrogen, drinking hydrogen water, and hydrogen bathing).

This is the most commonly raised point of view that many people questioned that hydrogen medicine is a "pseudoscience". As an emerging discipline that has not been developed for a long time, it is normal to be questioned. Why has hydrogen not been used in hospitals? There are two main reasons. First, it is true that hydrogen medicine has not been developed for a long time, and there is still a lack of rigorous large-sample clinical studies to determine the actual effect on certain diseases, awareness is still very low, and it takes time to understand and popularize; another reason is that clinical application is not determined by simple medical research, a clinical treatment method can only be approved by the National Food and Drug Administration (such as the US FDA) Only then can it be used in the clinic. This approved method is defined as qualified clinical drugs and medical devices. Obtaining this standard requires R&D equipment manufacturers to submit medical device registration applications to national institutions, pay a large amount of funds for clinical research, and then obtain medical qualifications through a long application path, all of these require a long time. Of course, nothing does not mean that there will not be in the future. There are already many institutions and companies in China and Japan working hard to do this, especially the hydrogen inhalation machine, which is also the most promising method of hydrogen therapy in the future. Therefore, it is only temporary that hydrogen medicine has not entered the clinic, and it is the goal of current efforts to strive for early clinical application.