There is a group of people who choose to smoke hydrogen to fight cancer

Author: Road Angel

This is a common gas that everyone knows.

Its chemical formula is H, it is extremely flammable at room temperature and pressure; it is colorless, transparent, odorless and difficult to dissolve in water, making it the least dense gas known in the world.

It is hydrogen, and its most widely known use is the colorful hydrogen balloon sold on the street.

Recently, in the medical field, a hydrogen absorption therapy has become known. According to Hydrogen Medicine, hydrogen is said to "treat metabolic diseases such as diabetes, lipid metabolism disorders, metabolic syndrome, obesity, gout, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease", and can also "help cancer recovery, treat insomnia, rhinitis and other diseases".

Can hydrogen really save people from disease? /Unsplash

For the average person, this is just a new discovery in the medical field, which seems to be a bit of an IQ tax. During the "3.15" period, the "anti-counterfeiting personnel" went undercover to expose the "scam" of hydrogen therapy, because there was false publicity in the advertisement of a hydrogen absorption health center.

Even so, hydrogen is used by a special group to treat diseases. They are a group of seriously ill patients and cancer patients who have passed by the god of death, and after being sentenced to "death" by doctors, they have taken a fancy to this colorless and odorless gas.

They tried all kinds of methods, calm after scorching, calming down and then scorching, "Try it, how do you know without trying?" ”

82 cancer patients

"Can hydrogen really control cancer?"

At a public health studio in Guangzhou, people seeking treatment options are constantly coming.

The secret is hidden in a white machine the size of a computer host. The staff poured a bottle of pure water through the inlet, and the transparent water tank was constantly bubbling in some kind of electrolytic separation. The machine is constantly running, breaking down about 66.6% oxygen and 33.3% hydrogen from pure water.

The gas produced by the machine enters people's respiratory tract through a snorkel and enters the blood in the alveoli, beginning its journey as a guardian of human health.

The hydrogen oxygen machine, which looks ordinary, is easily reminiscent of a water dispenser. /Photo by the author

Throughout the studio, 10 machines were running simultaneously, providing a sufficient amount of hydrogen for the 10 people who came to absorb hydrogen. Everyone can make an appointment for free hydrogen absorption health care through WeChat scanning code, 1.5 hours each time, and can make unlimited appointments. If the reservation is full, 50 people will come here regularly every day to absorb hydrogen.

Almost all the people who come here are seriously ill. Chen Tai, who has gray hair and a warm chat with the staff, glanced down at her abdomen, "Ovarian cancer, just had an operation last year," she told The New Weekly reporter.

Bao Xianyong, who first came to the studio, touched the left chest cavity and told the New Weekly reporter that during the routine physical examination in 2019, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. After two surgeries, he lost half of his lungs and the cancer still had a tendency to spread. Fearing that his body would not be able to bear it, he decided not to do radical treatment anymore.

A month ago, a book called "Hydrogen Control cancer" split a gap for Bao Xianyong's dull anti-cancer days.

Based on a follow-up of 82 patients with advanced and moderately advanced cancer, the book concluded that by inhaling hydrogen for at least 1.5 hours a day and inhaling continuously for 3 months or more, patients with advanced and moderately advanced cancer had "improved quality of life and physical fitness, and disease progression was controlled."

In front of the main text of the book, there are reviews by four medical experts, including liver cancer expert Tang Zhaoyou, internal medicine hematology expert Wang Zhenyi, "the father of Chinese hepatobiliary surgery" Wu Mengchao, and respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan.

Bao Xianyong was half-convinced at first: "Why haven't you heard of this therapy before?" He spent a few days reading the 250,000-word book from beginning to end, into the flame of hope brought by the "miracle of 82 cancer patients."

"Hydrogen Control cancer" book cover.

Among the 82 patients, they suffered from more than ten diseases such as lung cancer, liver cancer, gynecological malignancy, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, etc., and all of them were stage III and IV patients. They continued to absorb hydrogen for more than 1.5 hours a day, and after a few months, a reversal of the disease occurred in each person.

A retired teacher in the book, stage III of ovarian cancer, recurrence with multiple metastases, underwent 5 chemotherapy treatments in 5 years, but the tumor markers have not declined. At the end of June 2018, she stopped chemotherapy and insisted on hydrogen inhalation for a month, and the indicator dropped to the normal range.

A month ago, Bao Xianyong, accompanied by his wife, flew from the northeast to Guangzhou and came to this health studio.

To speed up the pace, he would come to the studio every morning and afternoon to suck for half an hour. He told the New Weekly reporter that on the fifth or sixth day, he felt "different" and his sleep became better. In the past, I would wake up at 4 a.m. every day, and after absorbing hydrogen, I could sleep for seven or eight hours at a time, and "I also had energy during the day."

It is difficult to say whether this is Bao Xianyong's psychological effect or whether hydrogen has produced some kind of "miraculous curative effect" in his body.

However, "the quality of sleep has improved" is indeed the feedback of most people after taking hydrogen — Rebecca, a stage III lung cancer patient who shared her life experience online, said that after more than a month of inhaling hydrogen, she no longer coughed at night. Health studio volunteers told New Weekly that according to patient feedback since 2019, most people have some health improvements.

But those who feel that hydrogen does not work for themselves are ignored. The New Weekly reporter learned at the scene that after a period of hydrogen absorption treatment, these people silently and "withdrew" from the health studio.

culprit?

Oxidative stress response

The purpose of Bao Xianyong's trip, in addition to trying hydrogen therapy, also wanted to visit Xu Kecheng, the author of the book "Hydrogen Cancer Control". He is also the "soul of hydrogen cancer control therapy" in the patient's mouth.

The 81-year-old doctor is still active in the public eye. As the president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital, he sometimes sees cancer patients in the hospital and sometimes attends events to promote hydrogen cancer control.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Bao Xianyong met Xu Kecheng. Elder Xu wears a pair of thick black-rimmed glasses and "looks very kind."

Dean Xu is looking at the patient CT/Xu Kecheng Health Care Studio

Elder Xu's stability and kindness seemed to have given him a reassurance pill, and they agreed to take a film to review after a month of hydrogen absorption.

The New Weekly reporter checked the information and learned that in 1963, Xu Kecheng graduated from the Medical Department of Nantong Medical College (now Nantong University School of Medicine) and later stayed on to teach. In the 1980s and 1990s, he went to japan and the United States to study hepatology. When he was in his sixties, he founded the Cancer Hospital and was "the founder of the domestic 'cancer cryotherapy'".

After years of dealing with cancer, he was approached by cancer in 2006. Perhaps not surprisingly, according to the World Health Organization, about 1 in 5 people worldwide develop cancer each year.

That year, 1/3 of his liver was removed, and after the surgery, he continued to treat patients. For him, his later life was more urgent, and the after-effects of surgery and chemotherapy made him constantly look for "effective, simple and inexpensive" rehabilitation methods.

In 2018, Xu Kecheng met hydrogen therapy and began to try to absorb hydrogen. In his view, a fundamental cause of hydrogen absorption and cancer control lies in the selective antioxidant effect of hydrogen and the anti-inflammatory effect.

In the process of antioxidants, the important enemy of hydrogen to break through is the excess "free radicals" in the human body. Free radicals are oxygen molecules that lack an electron, and we have to breathe oxygen every day to maintain life, but a very small part of them will be converted into reactive oxygen radicals. This is an extremely active guy, highly active, extremely unstable, and likes to take an electron from other matter and form a stable substance on his own.

In general, the scavenging of free radicals is a process of dynamic balancing. But when there are too many free radicals, electrons will be snatched from other oxygen atoms, and the oxygen atoms that have been robbed of electrons become new free radicals, forming a vicious circle and causing oxidative stress reactions.

One of the serious consequences of oxidative stress is to attack the cell's DNA, causing it to scramble to the point of misprogramming, eventually evolving into cancer cells that are not under the control of the body. Further, cancer cells often use this response to "do evil."

The key to hydrogen therapy lies in the selective antioxidant effect of hydrogen, that is, hydrogen can selectively neutralize excess free radicals that are harmful to the body, without affecting the operation of other important substances in the body.

Currently, there are 2,000 papers in the world that are widely mentioned about hydrogen therapy. The earliest paper was born in 1975, the American scholar Dole reported in "Science" that inhaling hydrogen at 8 atmospheres for 14 consecutive days can significantly reduce the size of skin cancer tumors in mice.

Professor Nario Ota of The Japanese Medical University published an article in Nature Medicine in 2007 confirming that "inhalation of hydrogen can effectively alleviate cerebral ischemia and reperfusion damage in rats."

Around 2008, hydrogen medicine entered China. Sun Xuejun, a professor at the Department of Naval Medicine of the Second Military Medical University, was fascinated by hydrogen and began to track hydrogen therapy research around the world. In March 2014, under the organization of Sun Xuejun, the Hydrogen Molecule Biomedical Professional Committee was established.

It is not only Sun Xuejun who is fascinated by hydrogen therapy.

In 2011, Lin Xinyong, chairman of an automation equipment company, saw locals bathing in hydrogen-rich water at the site of a nuclear power plant in Japan, which is said to fight cancer. He was a cancer patient and was very sensitive to what was claimed to be able to fight cancer; as a businessman, the antioxidant effects of hydrogen also made him see business opportunities, and he began to use his advantages in automated machinery to make hydrogen atomizers.

At present, hydrogen health care is very popular in Taiwan and Japan. / The official website of a hydrogen and oxygen machine

Since May 2018, Xu Kecheng has placed nearly 20 hydrogen atomizers in his own health studio to provide free hydrogen absorption services for patients.

Is it safe to inhale hydrogen? This is the most concerned question for all those who are new to hydrogen therapy.

In common sense, a large amount of hydrogen is exposed to the air and is flammable and explosive. The New Weekly reporter learned that most of the hydrogen atomizers on the market claimed to "strictly avoid the danger of hydrogen explosion." What about hydrogen absorption?

The industry believes that inhaling hydrogen will not have toxic side effects on the human body. The main basis of this inference is the observation of high-pressure hydrogen on the human body without obvious toxic side effects in diving medicine for many years, but as of now, there is no systematic biosafety evaluation study report.

However, patients who come to inhale hydrogen rarely question the safety of hydrogen.

At present, the hydrogen oxygen fog machine they are using has been included in the list of national three types of respiratory medical equipment, which is used to assist the improvement of symptoms (including breathing difficulties, cough, and sputum production) of adult patients who need hospitalization and the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the process of responding to the new crown pneumonia in the mainland, the national "diagnosis and treatment plan for new coronavirus pneumonia (trial version 6, 7 and 8)" has taken hydrogen and oxygen inhalation as the recommended treatment method.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, in Xu Kecheng's care and health studio, the hydrogen and oxygen atomizer ran quietly, and the people who came here to absorb hydrogen talked about gasoline prices, whether they slept well yesterday, and talked about their children, but they did not talk about the role of hydrogen absorption - that is something that can only be left to worry about in their hearts.

If you have cancer, you have to continue living. /Unsplash

"How do you know without trying?"

Sitting in the hydrogen absorption room, Bao Xianyong busily operated his mobile phone. Before the epidemic, he had been traveling for nearly 20 years, traveling north and south.

He loves this kind of free life, can wander around and witness different lives. There was a kind of Northeastern optimism in him, as if lung cancer surgery was just as easy as cutting off the appendix.

The biggest change after his surgery, in addition to not speaking as neutrally as before, has also become more like an existential master than before, telling others about his illness with comfort: "The meaning of life lies in the health and happiness of the present." ”

After the epidemic, the tourism industry is almost stopped, and Bao Xianyong's tour group has become sparse, but the "solid" northeast people will not "sit still", and the contacts and resources accumulated over the years have allowed him to naturally pull the group to sell local specialties from all over the world. He took his phone and said, "You see, while absorbing hydrogen, I can also work." ”

Light-hearted small talk – this is also the atmosphere that fills the whole health studio, even if 80% of the people who come here are cancer patients.

Sadness is also too much, and ease is also too much. Although sometimes anxiety and fear can come suddenly. /Unsplash

However, his wife, who accompanied Bao Xianyong to Guangzhou, showed some worries.

When her husband inhaled hydrogen, she came over from time to time to bring him a thermos cup and let him drink water. In the early years of travel, the couple gathered less and more, and she could not stand this anymore. At first, she was a little saddened by her husband's decision not to have a third surgery, and she was later persuaded. Instead of suffering a greater sin in surgery, it is better to let your husband live comfortably.

Absorbing hydrogen now carries all her prayers.

Rebecca, a 40-year-old woman with beauty, was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in 2019. By the time she found her coughing sputum with blood streaks, the cancer had metastasized to her brain and bones. At first, she couldn't accept that she had never smoked, and her lifestyle was very healthy, how could she get lung cancer?

16 years ago, she immigrated to Australia, and successively obtained a postgraduate degree in English interpreting and translation, and later because she was interested in medical aesthetics, she set up her own medical aesthetic institutions in Australia. She has a caring husband, a pair of lively children, and runs a business that she loves, but that's how the accident came.

After her diagnosis, she, like most cancer patients, underwent a trilogy of punctures, surgery, and chemotherapy. CT-guided puncture biopsy is one of the most common methods of diagnosing lung cancer, in which doctors insert a needle through the rib space of the chest wall and then through the membrane around the lung to remove a piece of tissue.

Chemotherapy is torture in all cancer patients. Hair loss, blood disorders, dry skin, visceral molting, the most obvious reaction is nausea and vomiting.

Absorbing hydrogen now carries all her prayers. /Unsplash

After the cancer trilogy, her cancer cells were temporarily contained and she now takes targeted medications at home.

Back in the 1980s, radical chemotherapists had "desperately discovered" that many drugs produced greater toxicity without bringing about a cure. In fact, until now, apart from removing cancer cells in different ways, humans have not invented a way to cure cancer.

Xu Kecheng, who has treated cancer for half a lifetime and is also a cancer patient, has been repeatedly correcting himself and correcting the public's misconception of cancer. He believes that many cancers have the possibility of recurrence, and the possibility of completely eliminating tumors is minimal, but "cancer can continue to live", the key is how to reduce pain and improve the quality of life of patients.

How to coexist with cancer is one of the most important questions. /Pixabay

On this basis, he proposed the concept of "coexistence with cancer". He believes that tumors are actually a chronic disease, and it is completely feasible to survive with cancer. This is also a view that is gradually accepted worldwide. In 2006, the World Health Organization redefined cancer, which had previously been an "incurable disease," as "a chronic disease that can be treated, controlled, or even cured." With appropriate treatment measures, including diet, exercise, smoking cessation, rhythmic routines and good lifestyle habits, these patients can live like healthy people.

The proposal of "hydrogen cancer control" is based on the concept of "coexistence with cancer". Xu Kecheng stressed that hydrogen absorption cannot replace the main cancer "treatment", but "rehabilitation", that is, after completing the main treatment of cancer, hydrogen absorption is used to help recover and reduce the side effects caused by chemotherapy.

At the beginning of March this year, after being discharged from the hospital, Rebecca bought a hydrogen oxygen machine across the border through a hydrogen oxygen machine health blogger. She hung a snorkel and inhaled hydrogen for 6 hours a day, feeling more breathing, so she gradually resumed her favorite medical and aesthetic work.

Returning to work and continuing to live a normal life is an important thing to "coexist with cancer".

After being diagnosed with cancer, Xu Kecheng has gone through 16 years. Today, his indicators are normal and he looks no different from ordinary people.

The ordinary mind that looks at cancer. /Movie "Flying Over the Nursing Home"

But the New Weekly reporter learned that at the practical level, hydrogen therapy has not yet reached the point where it can be widely used clinically. One of the most widely said is that the vast majority of double-blind trials of hydrogen therapy, subject to animal experimental models, are still a minority of clinical studies on humans.

Sun Xuejun said in an interview with China News Weekly that at present, researchers are actually unclear about the mechanism of the specific action of hydrogen molecules in the body, "hydrogen molecules are relatively small, it is not easy to mark tracking, and its reaction process is not mastered now." That said, hydrogen's selective antioxidant effect (selection of harmful free radicals) is currently considered to be a hypothesis that is inferred from the results. In the book "Hydrogen Cancer Control", the 82 cases of "hydrogen absorption and cancer control effective" may have hundreds or thousands of cases without obvious effects behind them.

Is hydrogen therapy really big enough to be promoted? No one can give a positive answer.

Since Xu Kecheng released the book "Hydrogen Cancer Control" in 2019, he has been constantly questioned by "impure purpose". Fang Arkzi, a professional anti-counterfeiting blogger, even wrote an article slamming "hydrogen therapy", believing that the purpose of publicizing "hydrogen cancer control" is "to sell hydrogen suction machines (hydrogen oxygen atomizers)".

Hydrogen control of cancer is currently being questioned. /Unsplash

Under the popular science articles of Xu Kecheng and Sun Xuejun on hydrogen, it is often asked:

"Isn't it really an IQ tax?"

All kinds of doubts are not what cancer patients and seriously ill patients who choose hydrogen therapy need to care most at present. They did not turn a blind eye, as Bao Xianyong, who passed by the god of death, said:

"How do you know without trying?"

Resources:

[1] It is said that hydrogen absorption is 1.5 hours a day, and cancer can be controlled for 3 consecutive months? | China News Weekly

[2] Cell Sub-Journal: Using free radicals to promote the death of cancer cells can avoid oxidative stress| biological exploration

[3] Xu Kecheng: Fighting cancer, coexisting with cancer The sermon of a cancer doctor | Southern Weekend