There are multiple studies that show electrolyzed water to be beneficial for
your health.
In Japan, reduced (electrolyzed) water therapy seems to be particularly
widespread.
In his article "CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROLYZED-REDUCED WATER"
(://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Xi4DN2frdMsC:www.hydrogen-richwater-
jp.com/a)%2520HPMS%2520-%2520Clinical%2520applications%2520of%2520electrolyzed-
reduced%2520water.htm+electrolyzed+water+metabolism&hl=en),
Hidemitsu HAYASHI, M.D., Water Institute, Kyowa Medical Clinic, states:
"Active hydrogen, or atomic hydrogen, can be produced in reduced water near the
cathode during electrolysis of water. Namely, the oldest life forms should have
developed hydrogenase in order to obtain active hydrogen, with which they could
have succeeded in the fight against active oxygen; which, otherwise, should
have had exterminated them. Now we can say that quite a new concept (active
hydrogen) as a scavenger, hardly known in the past, is presented."... "Since
May of 1985 we have confirmed thousands of clinical improvements, obtained
solely by exchanging drinking (as well as cooking water) from tap water to
reduced water." He goes on to review the history of use of electrolyzed water
and to list its benefits.
Another Japanese paper on this subject is entitled "REDUCED WATER FOR
PREVENTION OF DISEASES"; it was presented at the 2000 Symposium on Water for
Prevention of Disease by Sanetaka Shirahata, Graduate school of
Genetic Resources Technology, Kyushu University.
The paper begins thus:
"It has long been established that reactive oxygen species (ROS) cause many
types of damage to biomolecules and cellular structures, that, in turn result
in the development of a variety of pathologic states such as diabetes, cancer
and aging. Reduced water is defined as anti-oxidative water produced by
reduction of water. Electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) has been demonstrated to
be hydrogen-rich water and can scavenge ROS in vitro (Shirahata et al., 1997).
The reduction of proton in water to active hydrogen (atomic hydrogen, hydrogen
radical) that can scavenge ROS is very easily caused by a weak current,
compared to oxidation of hydroxyl ion to oxygen molecule. Activation of water
by magnetic field, collision, minerals etc. will also produce reduced water
containing active hydrogen and/or hydrogen molecule. Several natural waters
such as Hita Tenryosui water drawn from deep underground in Hita city in Japan,
Nordenau water in Germany and Tlacote water in Mexico are known to alleviate
various diseases. We have developed a sensitive method by which we can detect
active hydrogen existing in reduced water, and have demonstrated that not only
ERW but also natural reduced waters described above contain active hydrogen and
scavenge ROS in cultured cells." It goes on to describe the hydrogen detection
method.
There's also a number of Japanese studies on electrolyzed water in Medline (the
most extensive online medical research database), such as this one:
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997 May 8;234(1):269-74
Electrolyzed-reduced water scavenges active oxygen species and protects DNA
from oxidative damage.
Shirahata S, Kabayama S, Nakano M, Miura T, Kusumoto K, Gotoh M, Hayashi H,
Otsubo K, Morisawa S, Katakura Y.
Institute of Cellular Regulation Technology, Graduate School of Genetic
Resources Technology,
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. sirahata@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
"Active oxygen species or free radicals are considered to cause extensive
oxidative damage to biological macromolecules, which brings about a variety of
diseases as well as aging. The ideal scavenger for active oxygen should
be 'active hydrogen'. 'Active hydrogen' can be produced in reduced water near
the cathode during electrolysis of water. Reduced water exhibits high pH, low
dissolved oxygen (DO), extremely high dissolved molecular hydrogen (DH), and
extremely negative redox potential (RP) values. Strongly electrolyzed-reduced
water, as well as ascorbic acid, (+)-catechin and tannic acid, completely
scavenged O.-2 produced by the hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase (HX-XOD) system in
sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). The superoxide dismutase (SOD)-like activity
of reduced water is stable at 4 degrees C for over a month and was not lost
even after neutralization, repeated freezing and melting, deflation with
sonication, vigorous mixing, boiling, repeated filtration, or closed
autoclaving, but was lost by opened autoclaving or by closed autoclaving in the
presence of tungsten trioxide which efficiently adsorbs active atomic hydrogen.
Water bubbled with hydrogen gas exhibited low DO, extremely high DH and
extremely low RP values, as does reduced water, but it has no SOD-like
activity. These results suggest that the SOD-like activity of reduced water
is not due to the dissolved molecular hydrogen but due to the dissolved atomic
hydrogen (active hydrogen). Although SOD accumulated H2O2 when added to the HX-
XOD system, reduced water decreased the amount of H2O2 produced by XOD. Reduced
water, as well as catalase and ascorbic acid, could directly scavenge H2O2.
Reduce water suppresses single-strand breakage of DNA b active oxygen species
produced by the Cu(II)-catalyzed oxidation of ascorbic acid in a dose-dependent
manner, suggesting that reduced water can scavenge not only O2.- and H2O2, but
also 1O2 and .OH."
You can find more studies by searching Medline through PubMed
(http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) for "electrolyzed water".
In the US, Patrick Flannagan found that microclustered silicate minerals
naturally set up electron reducing potentials and came up with a compound he
named Microhydrin that has been shown to decrease lactic acid buildup during
exercise, and to produce significant antioxidant effects (see
http://www.flantech.com/research/PDF/Bioelectro.PDF and other articles at
http://www.flantech.com/research/research.htm).
There are also interesting popular discussions of microcluster water at
http://www.aquatechnology.net/Microcluster_water.html and
http://www.herballadies.com/p168.htm.
Google searches for ,e.g., "electrolyzed water", "structured water", and "water
microclusters OR micro-clusters" will produce more interesting results. |
