Hydrogen Water Shows Promise for Heart Health and Exercise Recovery
- Authors
- Benny Johansson
- Journal
- Internal Medicine Review
- Year
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.18103/imr.v3i2.321
- Study Type
- clinical
- Peer Reviewed
- Yes
- Country
- Sweden
- Health Condition
- Atherosclerosis
- Body System
- Cardiovascular
TL;DR
Scientists studied special "functional water" that's been treated to have extra hydrogen and minerals in it, and found it might help your body fight diseases caused by stress and damage, plus help you recover better after exercise. However, they admit they need to do more solid research to prove it actually works in real patients before doctors can start recommending it.
Key Finding
Functional water enriched with hydrogen and mineral nanoparticles shows potential anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects in some studies, though the proposed quantum-based mechanisms remain largely theoretical and unproven.
Summary
This review examines 'functional water' — water that has been naturally or chemically treated to contain hydrogen and mineral particles — and its potential health effects. The authors suggest that such water may help the body maintain balance and reduce damage from oxidative stress (a harmful process linked to diseases like diabetes and heart disease), and may improve recovery from exercise. However, the review relies heavily on theoretical mechanisms involving quantum physics that have not been clearly demonstrated in rigorous human studies.
Practical Takeaway
While this review suggests functional water may have health benefits, it is primarily a theoretical overview rather than a summary of completed human trials. The mechanisms described (quantum coherence, physiological nonlocality) are speculative and lack strong clinical evidence. Anyone considering functional water should be aware that most claims remain unvalidated in rigorous human studies.
Abstract
Functional water science has gained attention recently in response to its physiological functions, health-promoting effects and disease prevention, especially on oxidative-stressrelated diseases such as diabetes, cancer, arteriosclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases and side effects of hemodialysis. It has been proposed that in the case of naturally or electrochemically reduced water, the active agents are atomic or molecular hydrogen, mineral nanoparticles and mineral nanoparticle hydrides. Studies investigating functional qualities of functional mineral water or functional coherent mineral water in healthy humans suggest a capacity to maintain or restore physiological self-regulation to reduce variability accompanying a constant “steady state” condition, and/or propose the presence of fractal nonlinear mechanisms and long-range power-law correlations involved in physiological control and complex signaling networks to maintain homeostasis. The functional coherency of a mineral water aligns a nonlinear quantum coherent regime of physiological water as an important factor in the emergence of self-organization and self-consistency of the living organism, exclusively providing a mechanism for physiological nonlocality. Formation of a super-coherent biological plasma-like physiological water is considered one of the most important characteristics of a healthy physiological state. Supplementation with a dietary volume of functional deep ocean mineral water, as a primordial source of nutritional minerals and trace elements, shows consistent anti-atherogenic effects, inhibition of atherosclerosis progression, and improved recovery from exhaustive physical fatigue with elimination of post-exercise oxidative damage.