"Mom, they all said don't go to that health club anymore, cheat money, why are you staying so long, and you go every day, and the pension will be cheated out!"
"It's really useful son, you see mom this Parkinson's, ran several hospitals are not good, sucked in hydrogen for more than a week, hands really don't shake much." If you suck for a few more months, won't it all be good? Aunt Wang, 72, firmly believes that the "hydrogen yangguan" she often visits can help treat Parkinson's.
Speaking of this "hydrogen pavilion", it is still newly opened by the community a few months ago, claiming that it can "prevent cancer and anti-aging", "improve immunity, comprehensively improve sub-health status", "improve ED and various chronic diseases", "improve skin, lose weight, get rid of acne", etc., in short, it can provide various health effects for people of all ages, which can be described as "curing all diseases". The old man and old lady of the whole community ran inside every day, just to inhale hydrogen, Aunt Wang was also one of them, and more old people had the desire to buy 30,000 or 40,000 hydrogen absorbers in the store.
Aunt Wang's son wondered, this health center is just to let the old man inhale hydrogen for an hour every time, is it really such a "magical" effect? This hydrogen inhalation is too much, it will not cause harm to the body, right?
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First, can hydrogen inhalation cure diseases and health?
First of all, we need to make it clear that hydrogen is not a "god", and studies have shown that our human body can produce about 1200ml of hydrogen every day by relying on metabolism. Therefore, there is no need to "hold" it so high.
Can hydrogen inhalation cure the disease? Theoretically, it is indeed possible, and it has to start with "why people get sick".
When people inhale oxygen and ingest food, energy substances and substances that promote energy conversion will undergo oxidation reactions in the body, producing a large number of free radicals. Free radicals are the substances needed to maintain normal life, and in most cases, free radicals, although constantly produced, will continue to be removed, and the overall balance will be maintained.
However, when the human body is attacked by pathogenic factors, human cells are over-oxidized, forming oxidative damage. A large number of free radicals in the body will erupt, and the toxic reactive oxygen species in them will begin to attack biological macromolecules, causing tissue cell damage. Therefore, oxidative damage is the root cause of various diseases and body aging.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, is reductive and selectively scavenges toxic free radicals. Therefore, in theory, hydrogen can play a therapeutic role in most diseases.
However, theory is attributed to theory, in practical medical treatment, the therapeutic effect of hydrogen still lacks sufficient human clinical research to prove, and more clinical cases and studies are needed to support its therapeutic efficacy. And it needs to be emphasized that there is not enough evidence to prove the biosecurity of hydrogen for the time being, so don't blindly suck hydrogen.
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Second, hydrogen absorption for 1.5 hours a day, three consecutive months can control cancer?
Previously, Xu Kecheng, honorary president of fuda cancer hospital affiliated to Jinan University, published a new book "Hydrogen Cancer Control - Theory and Practice" which mentioned the theory of "hydrogen cancer control", which became the focus of discussion, but also attracted a lot of questions.
The book mentions that in order to confirm whether hydrogen can help control cancer, Xu Kecheng's studio has set up more than 30 hydrogen and oxygen atomizers and set up relevant values for cancer patients to absorb hydrogen for free. Among them, there are 82 cases of cancer patients, involving more than 10 kinds of cancer types including liver cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc., all stages are stage III and IV, the daily hydrogen absorption time is not less than 1.5 hours, and the follow-up is 3-46 months.
Based on the results of the follow-up, Xu Kecheng found:
These patients have significantly improved their appetite, sleep and other quality of life, with lung cancer patients having the best effect, and gynecological tumors and pancreatic cancer patients with the worst improvement effect;
The decline rate of tumor markers in lung cancer patients was the highest, reaching 75%,while the tumor markers in patients with pancreatic cancer and liver cancer did not decrease;
Lung cancer had the highest disease control rate, greater than 78.9%; pancreatic cancer had the lowest rate, only 20%;
The control rate in patients with stage III cancer is generally higher than that in stage IV patients.
At the same time, 12 patients died due to the development of the disease or the occurrence of infections. From this, synthesizing the data, Xu Kecheng concluded that inhaling hydrogen can indeed control the progression of cancer to a certain extent.
As for Xu Kecheng's research conclusions, Yu Guanzhen, deputy chief physician of the Department of Oncology of Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, questioned that the study was only "sporadic case reports", coupled with the more complicated types of cancer involved, the treatment methods were not uniform, so that the results were also biased, and temporarily could not reach the level of medical means.
Fang Wenzheng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Oncology of the 900th Hospital, also believes that the study has certain limitations, and there are only 82 cases, which is not enough as a reliable basis for "hydrogen controlled cancer".
In response, Xu Kecheng also responded: the conclusion only shows that hydrogen can "control cancer", not "cure cancer", which means that after completing the main treatment of cancer, hydrogen can be inhaled to promote recovery in the recovery stage, which is used for health care, rather than treating cancer through it.
In addition, this conclusion is only an observational report, not an evidence-based medical study, and the purpose is to provide you with a reference, because if you want to achieve the purpose of treating cancer through hydrogen, what should be the inhalation dose? How long is the most effective course? These questions remain to be explored.
Third, it is not recommended that the public blindly suck hydrogen
At this point in the article, I want to give you a special emphasis: if you want to achieve the purpose of health treatment through hydrogen, you need to guide through professional doctors, it is not recommended to blindly suck hydrogen on your own, especially the use of hydrogen used daily in hydrogen balloons, which is mostly industrial hydrogen, which may be doped with other gases, the gas is not pure, and may have an adverse impact on the human body after inhalation, let alone treat the disease.
In this regard, Academician Zhong Nanshan also reminded everyone: for hydrogen, if you want to know which diseases it is effective, how long it will work and how effective it is, you need strict and thorough scientific design, rather than blindly absorbing it to achieve the purpose, so everyone should be cautious.
Summary: Hydrogen is not a "divine qi", it cannot cure all diseases, nor can it be used as the main treatment method for cancer, so do not easily try to "absorb hydrogen". With cancer, the most correct way is to seek medical examination in time, formulate a personalized plan according to personal circumstances, standardize treatment, rather than counting on hydrogen, which may not only adversely affect health, but also may affect the treatment of cancer, so everyone should see hydrogen correctly.
Resources:
[1] "Hydrogen absorption can fight cancer and prevent aging?" It's not that simple". Beijing Youth Daily.2021-12-03
[2] "The inclusion of 'hydrogen absorption therapy' in the seventh edition of the new crown diagnosis and treatment plan has aroused controversy". China News Weekly.2020-03-05
[3] "Can hydrogen absorption really cure all diseases"? Biosecurity to be verified". Yangcheng Evening News.2018-09-08
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