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- There is a medical hype telling you to drink water with dissolved H2 in it for health benefits. And there is a study in Nature that actually seems legit (to the layman's eye). So what to make of this?
Here is a study that claims that drinking water with dissolved H2 is a good thing for people over 30:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68930-2
It is apparently a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial, which sounds good. The total amount of people in the age group >30, the group for which a statistically significant result has been found, is 18 (the results for the <30 group (20 people) did not show a significant benefit).
Apparently the benefit is that H2 is an antioxidant which supposedly has all kind of benefits since, apparently, oxidation of cells/DNA/RNA causes damage leading to higher inflammation levels and other bad stuff.
I have no medical background at all. It seems to me somewhat farfetched that drinking hydrogen water would be really beneficial, and it sounds much more like one of the many medical hypes that go around off of which people try to make lots of money.
So what am I to make of this? Is there some truth in this after all? What do you think?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68930-2
It is apparently a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial, which sounds good. The total amount of people in the age group >30, the group for which a statistically significant result has been found, is 18 (the results for the <30 group (20 people) did not show a significant benefit).
Apparently the benefit is that H2 is an antioxidant which supposedly has all kind of benefits since, apparently, oxidation of cells/DNA/RNA causes damage leading to higher inflammation levels and other bad stuff.
I have no medical background at all. It seems to me somewhat farfetched that drinking hydrogen water would be really beneficial, and it sounds much more like one of the many medical hypes that go around off of which people try to make lots of money.
So what am I to make of this? Is there some truth in this after all? What do you think?