The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
144. What Makes Hydrogen Rich Water So Special for Your Health?
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
Let’s dive into something I’m obsessed with...hydrogen water! Today, I’m unpacking how this tiny element can transform your health, starting with your microvasculature, the 70% of your circulatory system that’s not powered by your heart. These little capillaries, thinner than a hair, deliver oxygen to every cell. When they’re inflamed or constricted, pressure builds, and your energy tanks. Enter hydrogen water. Why should you care? Most folks don’t realize inflammation in these microvessels often from stuff like high homocysteine levels which messes with circulation. That’s where hydrogen water shines. It’s the lightest element out there, zipping through your body to fight inflammation and oxidative stress where other antioxidants can’t reach. My advice? Start simple, add hydrogen water to your routine. It’s cheap, safe, and hits inflammation hard. Check out hydrogenstudies.com for the raw data with over 135 studies back this up. Ready to feel sharper, stronger, and younger? Resources/Articles/Studies: - The effects of 6-month hydrogen-rich water intake on molecular and phenotypic biomarkers of aging in older adults aged 70 years and over: A randomized controlled pilot trial: https://bit.ly/4blCkzf - Oral Intake of Hydrogen Water Improves Retinal Blood Flow Dysregulation in Response to Flicker Stimulation and Systemic Hyperoxia in Diabetic Mice: https://bit.ly/4gU7KOw - Hydrogen Water: Extra Healthy or a Hoax?—A Systematic Review: https://bit.ly/4h5OVrI - Hydrotherapy with hydrogen-rich water compared with RICE protocol following acute ankle sprain in professional athletes: a randomized non-inferiority pilot trial: https://bit.ly/4hXxOti Join the Ultimate Human VIP community and gain exclusive access to Gary Brecka's proven wellness protocols today!: https://bit.ly/4ai0Xwg Thank you to our partners: H2TABS - USE CODE “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4hMNdgg BODYHEALTH - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV BAJA GOLD - USE CODE "ULTIMATE10" FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3WSBqUa EIGHT SLEEP - SAVE $350 ON THE POD 4 ULTRA WITH CODE “GARY”: https://bit.ly/3WkLd6E STRENGTH TRAINING EQUIPMENT - THE ULTIMATE HUMAN: https://bit.ly/3zYwtSl COLD LIFE - THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE: https://bit.ly/4eULUKp WHOOP - GET 1 FREE MONTH WHEN YOU JOIN!: https://bit.ly/3VQ0nzW MASA CHIPS - GET 20% OFF YOUR FIRST $50+ ORDER: https://bit.ly/40LVY4y VANDY - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: https://bit.ly/49Qr7WE PARKER PASTURES - PREMIUM GRASS-FED MEATS: https://bit.ly/4hHcbhc AION - USE CODE “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4h6KHAD HAPBEE - FEEL BETTER & PERFORM AT YOUR BEST: https://bit.ly/4a6glfo CARAWAY - USE CODE “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3Q1VmkC Connect with Gary Brecka: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8fo X.com: https://bit.ly/3Opc8tf Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H Website: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Merch: https://bit.ly/4aBpOM1 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/47ejrws Ask Gary: https://bit.ly/3PEAJuG Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 Hydrogen as the Lightest Element on Earth 03:39 Studies on Drinking Hydrogen Gas-Infused Water 05:38 Microvascular Circulation 06:59 Benefits of Hydrogen Water 09:11 Findings of 6-Month Hydrogen Rich Water Intake Study The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. The Content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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