Hello Judy

I have been associated with H2 now for three years.

For the first year, my hydrogen ioniser sat up on my closet shelf, which is another story all by itself. The second year, it was hooked up to our reverse osmosis, and we just drank ionized water. Tastes really good.

During that second year, I got very frustrated because I couldn't find any real value in the ionizer and it wasn't cheap. Part of me wanted it to work to validate the cost, but most of me just really wanted it to work, somehow; I'm old, I've got a lot of issues going on that I would love to have some help with.

 

By late summer 2025, I was finding a path down the unbelievably confusing road of hydrogen, pH, oxygen-free radicals, oxidative stress, and cell signaling, along with some understanding of terminologies like Redox, ORP, ROS, and HO.

I was finding out exactly what hydrogen does in our bodies. What is it's role. It doesn’t cure anything on its own! It doesn’t greasing up arthritic joints. It doesn't clean out clogged arteries. It does two things that I've found so far. It is a major signaling component between cells and body parts in reference to inflammation and oxidative stress and, it is the bodies number one neutralizer of the body's number one nemesis - the hydroxyl radical. I don't know if you're familiar with the cartoon character, the Tasmanian Devil. But the Hydroxyl Radical is the Tasmanian Devil of our body. Its number one job is to kill, destroy, and deform on the cellular level. And it does this continually until we eventually die. It attacks our DNA., our genes, our cell nucleus, mitochondria, and the interior walls of the arteries. It nibbles at the telomeres on the end of our chromosomes and even goes after the chromosomes themselves. I've got a whole page full of issues that it's responsible for.  However, iour number one defender is already in the body. It's the lowly, littler-than-little hydrogen atom.

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"Cell signaling"  is our body's process to direct some of our body's resources to areas in need where inflammation is going on - inflammation causes oxidative stress and oxidative stress causes more hydroxyl radicals. Think of it as the firefighter fighting the fire (Inflammation and oxidative stress) and also as the fire chief, sending out the firefighters to fight the fires. Understand this already goes on in our body. It's a natural body process. The body produces it's own limited amount of  hydrogen. Now imagine instead of having two or three firefighters on the scene finding information, you've got hundreds. Now you can start to see the benefit of drinking H2 water. Now, the caveat - molecular hydrogen only stays saturated in water and the body for about two hours.

 

My major conclusion was that it wasn't the amount of hydrogen that I was ingesting, that's pretty well capped by physics. It is the  time intervals in between ingesting what makes the difference. I had to drink 250 mL of water with at least 1 mg/L with hydrogen every two hours to keep the hydrogen wall up.

 

It was late summer 2025  I  started to apply  my hydrogen therapy believing in my studies. I have diabetic and cardiac concerns, but anti-aging was first on my list. I am in my seventies and I was feeling it. Back in my forties and fifties, if problems and solutions were balls and I was a ball juggler I could be juggling ten to fifteen balls at a time - truly, that was my forte. Total multitasker. I started to lose that ability in my sixties. Down to four or five balls . Coming into my seventies I was having trouble just keeping track of one ball. However, this winter, that brightened considerably. I'm not back to where I was in my forties and fifties although I'm moving in that direction. And along with that, my drive has picked up. My bike rides are getting longer and more intense My VO2 max is on the rise. My outlook on things is becoming brighter. And I'm starting to notice a regression in my arthritis. The damage to my joints is still there, but the sting has been on the decline.

 

I did not sign up to be the H2 poster boy. I've been the water filter guy for twenty five years and my customers are used to me bringing information about water-associated studies and technologies. I'm making a little bit more noise about this one because I truly believe that it's working. I have a therapy procedure and equipment recommendation that I use. If the challenge of anti-aging and  good health-defense-maintenance is of interest to you then Google: hydrogen-infused water (and - anti aging, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and especially hydroxyl radical). The equipment that I use is the Enagic K8 ionizer and a couple of 250 mL -H2 disk generators. Check these out and have your questions ready for when here I come to change your water filters.