Dose-dependent inhibition of gastric injury by hydrogen in alkaline electrolyzed drinking water.
Jinling Xue, Guodong Shang, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yasuhiro Saihara, Lingyan Hou, Natalia Velasquez, Wenjun Liu, Yun Lu · BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014
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Under pH 8.5, 0.07, 0.22 and 0.84 ppm hydrogen exhibited a high correlation with inhibitory effects showed by erosion area, MPO activity and MDA content in the stomach. This source-grounded publication contributes evidence relevant to molecular hydrogen and is retained in a transparent general research category when a more specific study design is not supported by the indexed record.
How Molecular Hydrogen Was Addressed
In this study, hydrogen-rich alkaline water was obtained by adding H₂ to electrolyzed water at one atmosphere pressure.
What the Publication Reported
Under pH 8.5, 0.07, 0.22 and 0.84 ppm hydrogen exhibited a high correlation with inhibitory effects showed by erosion area, MPO activity and MDA content in the stomach.
H₂ Mechanisms / Biological Findings
Drinking hydrogen-rich water may protect healthy individuals from gastric damage caused by oxidative stress.
Authors’ Conclusion
The authors concluded that hydrogen is effective in relieving the gastric injury induced by aspirin-HCl, and the inhibitory effect is dose-dependent. The reason behind this may be that hydrogen-rich water directly interacted with the target tissue, while the hydrogen concentration in blood was buffered by liver glycogen, evoking a suppressed dose-response effect. Drinking hydrogen-rich water may protect healthy individuals from gastric damage caused by oxidative stress.