Author: Dr Madelene Ong
Unlike alkaline water, H2 has nothing to do with pH.
Alkaline water is water that has been separated into alkaline and acid fractions using electrolysis. Although its proponents claim alkaline water can make your tissues more alkaline to prevent or reverse disease, these claims aren’t supported by science.
Any benefits of alkaline water are due to the introduction of molecular hydrogen during electrolysis.
Researchers have found that these claims can’t be true because you cannot alter the pH of your blood and body simply by consuming alkaline water.
Rather, your body regulates its blood pH within a very narrow range because all of your enzymes are designed to work at pH 7.4. You couldn’t survive if your blood pH varied too far from that number.
As we’ve already seen, molecular hydrogen is a gas with very unique and selective antioxidant properties that selectively target the most cell-damaging free radicals.
Unfortunately, some of the benefits of molecular hydrogen have been inappropriately transferred over to alkaline water.
Researchers have uncovered that the primary agent responsible for the noted health benefits of alkaline water was actually due to the presence of molecular hydrogen produced in the water during hydrolysis.
It has nothing to do with the pH of the water.