Why Everyone is Talking About Hydrogen Water w/ Dr. Paul Barattiero

27:54Like you will feel improved immune function. You will feel lack of food allergies when you're eating foods. It'll feel like things don't take as much energy to process. Well, I'm excited to try this. Yeah, I'm excited to hear about it. Okay, so I've heard you say, though, that this can help with those that have attention issues, ADHD, things like that. And I'm assuming because it's helping the gut? Or why is that? Partially, but no. Funny enough, there's two master hormones in the body, leptin and ghrelin. So when you drink echo water, because of the hydrogen gas in there, as soon as the hydrogen gas is in the stomach, it will signal ghrelin secretions to the hippocampus, the hypothalamus, and the brainstem.

28:39Interesting. And it will change cognitive function. It will change clarity, focus. Wow. And we kind of get this when people do fasting. You're clear. And you're like, why am I clear when I'm fasting? Like, I should feel out of it. Like, ha, ha, ha, having that food. Ghrelin. So it's their hunger hormone. When you're hungry, ghrelin is signaled. Right. And so ghrelin is going up to the brain to clear you out. And you're focused. Right? Interesting. So the same thing happens when you're drinking water. Now, we have 22 studies on Parkinson's. We have studies on Alzheimer's. And when I say we, I say the industry of hydrogen.

29:23Why? Because the studies are showing that hydrogen has disease-modifying effects with Parkinson's. Interesting. So understand that hydrogen is very neuroprotective. Okay. A lot of autism, if you look at autism, they're saying there's a lack of ghrelin secretion. Interesting. Well, what happens if we get ghrelin up there where it's supposed to be? Those behaviors are going to go away. Interesting. So we have studies on bipolar, schizophrenia. All these neurologic issues can be fixed. So if we really think about it, what was wrong? The gut. So if we fix the gut, we fix these other issues. So are you claiming that two weeks of drinking Echo Water will help someone with ADHD?

30:11I wouldn't say it would take two weeks. I would say the mother will notice within an hour. Really? Yeah. If moms notice a lot of things, they're the heroes, right? So moms notice, I just gave my son, especially my son, this water and he's very different. Wow. All right. So I had, and I'll tell you one emotional story, which was one of my favorites. I've got a couple of stories in all these six, 20 years, 16 years of having Echo, but 20 years of, of, from the beginning doing this. There's two stories that are so amazing. I almost get emotional talking about it, but one was a mom that called and said, I just want to personally thank you for making this water.

30:58And I'm like, Oh, thank you so much. You know, that's sweet. We'd get those calls. Right. and she's like I am starting a business and I thought okay cool she goes let me tell you why that's so important I had a business before my son it got so combative at 20 years old that he was punching me he would be punching me he would be hitting me and I had to stop having a business out of home because he would just come in at any different time and he said she said I saw you on a podcast. I ordered your water system, put it in my home. My son hasn't hit me since. Oh, interesting. And I thought, oh my gosh, I never thought of that.

31:39Interesting. Like what a reality is that? Yeah. And so she goes, I'm starting a business. And I'm like, now I know why that's so important. Yeah. You know, that you're not getting hit. And she goes, and now my son is talking about he wants to start a business. He's in such a different mental place. Interesting. And I'm like, that's deep. Yeah. Very deep. So it's helping with mood. Yeah. Because the bacteria is what causes the mood in the first place. So then, because I talk a lot about depression, just because that was the battle I went through. So you're saying that hydrogen water can help depression then?

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33:42Now back to the show.

33:46Okay, so I'm curious though, because I've also heard you say that this echo water can help with sleep and sleep is a huge issue for a lot of people they can't sleep well yeah so how is that usually first night really yeah so when we're at trade shows and people drink the water and they're at hotels which is like so hard to sleep with wi-fi yeah blasted and some people are sensitive to that and you know they're drinking they're you know they're out later than normal all their stuff's out the window right and they're like i slept horribly, they'll come and say, oh, I haven't slept like that in 10 years.

34:21Interesting. Yeah. I think it's just obviously affecting brain function. From restoring the gut. Yes. So we have brain mapping, you know, EEGs and other things that you can do. And typically doctors that use our water therapeutically in an office, they'll have someone come in, they'll connect the brain to do a brain map, and they will give them just 16 ounces of echo water. That's all they'll do. Nothing else. And then they'll watch their brain. And within a few minutes, 32 % plasticity change. Interesting. 58 % normalization of alpha and beta waves. So the brain typically, what causes these issues we're talking about is it's over firing in one area and under firing in another.

35:10So that's how it balances itself. Right. Interesting. But if you bring those more into balance, the brain is working less and you're calm and you're functioning. And so those are the effects that typically are had. And then when it comes to a lot of different things, we, we, right now in the industry, we're talking a lot about nitric oxide, right? We're talking about all these kinds of things. There's three types of nitric oxide And one of them you can only get through getting hydrogen water. So of the three types of nitric oxide, there's one that you can only get with doing hydrogen. And so it's very interesting.

35:45So then that means this is great for like a pre-workout for people before they... Oh, yeah. Or during their workout to help with endurance. So we have professional teams. Yep. The 49ers, the Raiders, the Dodgers. That are all drinking echo water? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Because two reasons. A, they can go longer, five times as long before they fatigue. Okay. And their recovery times are cut down 85%, 90%. Wow. Yeah. And because of the nitric oxide, is that why the recovery is? No, it's just hydrogen reducing oxidative stress and inflammation. That's your primary thing that hydrogen does in the body.

36:23It manages oxidation and inflammation. Okay. So oxidation, as you know, is normal. Oxidative stress is not normal. So we should all have oxidation. It's when our antioxidant systems are not functioning because of our gut. When they're not functioning properly, we don't normalize the radicals. We don't balance or negative, you know, opposite effect. But effectively, if we're not managing the oxidants coming in, we'll end up with oxidative stress. So oxidation is normal. That's where it needs to be. But if it rises, it gets to be what's called oxidative stress. Then the body's going to deploy inflammation to fix all these things.

37:09Okay. And that's good as a temporary measure. But when it becomes chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, that's where all disease comes from. Well, most of the health issues out there have a root cause of inflammation. So then you're saying now, well, the root cause of a lot of these health issues could be a lack of hydrogen in the colon. Correct. Interesting. Yeah, it is the cause. So the cause of disease is oxidative stress and inflammation. The reason oxidative stress and inflammation happened is because hydrogen wasn't there to manage all the pathways. The hydrogen wasn't there because of the pesticides and stress.

37:43It's almost like someone knew that and maybe created chemicals that would do this. Interesting. And you create a lifetime of customers. Interesting. Yeah. So we know antioxidants are so important. And I talk about antioxidants all the time that we need to be eating our fruits and veggies to get those antioxidants to help with the oxidative stress. So are you claiming or can I say that hydrogen water is an antioxidant? It not only is an antioxidant, it is the only selective antioxidant that's known. Tell me what that means. So, OK, so let's let's go about some history just for fun. What do you think is the earliest study I found on hydrogen gas being studied as medical gas?

38:27Well, I'm going to go back far. The 50s. 1888. Oh, wow. Interesting. It's on our website, hydrogenstudies.com. If you go to hydrogenstudies.com, it's just a resource to go study. And we're going back to 1888 with the earliest studies we found. Did you know they were using hydrogen in World War II for gunshot wounds and things? People don't know this. This is not a fad. Like this is a core aspect of our body and people are like looking at it as a supplement and they need to understand the only reason you need it is because your body's in trouble. You got to get hydrogen in. It's mission critical.

39:05You cannot function as a human being without hydrogen. Your systems will fail. Okay. You cannot function. Now, in 2008 and 2009, Nature Medicine published a study with Dr. Shigeota out of Japan showing that hydrogen was a selective antioxidant. This is why the industry blew up. Interestingly, this is when I started lecturing on hydrogen was 2009. Okay. I started talking about it. Everyone said, you're nuts. And then two years later, you're brilliant. It was great. It was a two-year process. You went from an idiot to brilliant. I loved it. It was great. So what we're learning and what we understand is that hydrogen is like an intelligent antioxidant, unlike normal antioxidants that are a problem.

39:52So there have been many studies on people taking large amounts of antioxidants, and the result is, guess what? Cancer. Right. And the reason being is because an antioxidant, when it donates its electron, becomes a pro-oxidant. Now, it's a problem the body has to deal with. Yes, it completed that radical over there, but now it becomes a pro-oxidant itself, and now the body's got to deal with that. Okay, but we need to tell our listeners, though, that antioxidants are good, though. In small amounts, yes. Yeah, it is fine to get them, especially when they're naturally occurring. But we should not think we're going into an antioxidant regime and take a ton of antioxidants because it can harm us.

40:36A bunch of supplements full of antioxidants. Okay. So what we need to understand is that hydrogen is considered a selective antioxidant, which means it only goes after the bad stuff, doesn't affect the good radicals. And what we need to understand, most people don't understand that there are free radicals that are harmful, but the majority of free radicals in the body are actually life-sustaining. Okay. So getting rid of them with a traditional antioxidant would be a problem because now we're harming ourselves. We just want to get rid of the cytotoxic oxygen radicals. Cytotoxic means cell damaging, which is superoxide, hydroxyl radicals, these kind of things that are in the mitochondrial respiratory chain.

41:24That's why we all feel low energy is because you have hydroxyl radicals in there causing a lot of issues. So this study that was published by Nature Medicine in 2009 showed that hydrogen went and stopped hydroxyl radicals. Interesting. But would not affect any other radical that had a physiological role or was life-sustaining. So it's a smart antioxidant or it's intelligent, which obviously it was inherent to our body. So it's supposed to be there. It's not like somebody figured this out. Oh, my gosh. No, the creator knew. we have to have that that's what keeps everything what we call homeostasis yeah yeah because you have to have oxidation you have to have reduction if you give too much reduction we get sick if we have too much oxidation we get sick you've got to have homeostasis we can't just keep dumping stuff and telling people they're gonna be better because they will get worse we have to balance them out So that's what hydrogen is doing as a selective antioxidant.

42:26Correct. Naturally, hydrogen will balance all of these systems. Whether it's diabetes, glucose, lipid and glucose metabolism, we have 77 studies showing that it normalizes diabetes. Interesting. Why aren't we talking about this on the news, right? Yeah. Like, why do we have 77 studies so far? And in these studies, 80, 85 % normalized in three days, five days, 10 days, two weeks, whatever the study is. Normalized. These are people with diabetes. Interesting. Or impaired glucose tolerance. Gone. Well, if this is helping inflammation, which is, like you said, the root cause of so many health issues, diabetes, sleep issues, depression, mood issues.

43:11Yep. why aren't we talking about it more people think i'm crazy still i guess i don't know why but and and all they've gone is to this gimmicky bottle stuff they we're not talking about the fact that forget the the freaking bottle get it into your life yeah fix your gut and so people are so dumb this is what they'll say well if you're saying this will help me in two weeks just rent me a machine i've literally had people say that will you rent me a machine for two weeks so i can fix my gut and then I can just send it back. And I'm like, for real? Like, you know, you're going to eat pesticides. You know, you're not going to eat 100 % organic, non-GMO, and you're not going to grow your own food.

43:52You're not going to do this kind of thing. So in two weeks and three days after you've eaten pesticides again and other stuff that's destroying your gut, you're going to be like, oh, can I rent the machine again for two weeks? Just buy it. It's something you'll need the rest of your life. Unfortunately, until our food supply doesn't have harmful chemicals in it, this is something they have to drink if they expect to live a wonderful life. They have to get hydrogen back in their life. And so unfortunately, the millions of people that are drinking echo water every day are helped, but we have billions of people on this earth that are suffering every day, which is why I did this.

44:29And I know that they're like, whatever, hydrogen and water, that's a scam. And I'm going, you're probably the person that needs it. So interesting. Well, it's just because they're not educated on it. I mean, I wasn't educated on it. And I'm in the health world and I just have always heard what a gimmick it was. So when you taught the science behind it, then I was like, oh. Oh, this is interesting. Yeah. This makes sense. Come tell my listeners about it on the show. Exactly. Well, if we really understand, it fixes things. It's not a Band-Aid. It actually, so when we talk about rheumatoid arthritis, there was no reoccurrence.

45:04Really? Yeah. So it fixed the joint issues because why is, why is already there in the first place? Chronic inflammation. Interesting. So as it manages the inflammation, there was no reoccurrence of rheumatoid arthritis. When we start looking at disease models, you have 200 so far that hydrogen fixes. so that that should make sense why the creator would put a hydrogen generator in us because it's mission critical and so whether it's brain whether it's eyes we could sit and go through every single organ of the body how it affects kidney how it affects liver how it affects heart cholesterol 15 and a half percent reduction of cholesterol and people are like what why because you reduced inflammation.

45:50And so as you reduce systemic inflammation, you affect all organ systems. Interesting. Okay. I'm curious. I know it's a lot. I know it's a lot. I know it's amazing. So are you saying basically every organ of the body needs a hydrogen then? Yes. From your hair to your eyes, to your skin, to your heart, to your liver, to... Yeah. Hair color will change. You'll have gray go. I mean, because you understand all these systems, we can explain why hydrogen and what it should have been doing in the first place. You and I could unpack every, we could do a podcast on every organ. We could do a podcast on every system.

46:25We could do a podcast on every single aspect of the, why it helps the entire system. And that would be beautiful to do because again, people treat it like a supplement, like, oh, I have arthritis. I need to do it. Well, wait, wait, wait. It's, it's fixing everything, which is why people it's so difficult for them to understand because they're used to thinking a drug for every condition or a supplement for every condition that's where we are in allopathic medicine and natural medicine it's always a drug or a supplement for every condition yep i don't come from there i come from let's fix the source problem and have the body and then and then after we're done fixing all the stuff what's left and let's affect that now now where my personal opinion is on supplements, most people are lazy.

47:13Most people are not going to make a meal out of whole foods. So you need to supplement. But if someone's eating a whole food diet, that is your supplement. Yeah. So I'm never going to talk negatively about supplements. Well, let me say this, yours. I will trash a lot of other companies because they're synthetic and they're nonsense. sense. If you go in my kitchen, there's a lot of your products in my kitchen because of the amazing work you've done. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, we use them every day. Every single day we use them and have used them. But most companies, I would say they're getting a 1 % assimilation.

47:51Yeah, we could go into that for sure. But I do have a question for you since I sell supplements. I know I have to be so careful what I can claim that they do. Because it's a supplement. So I'm curious though, because if I were to claim like, oh, this is going to heal your arthritis and your depression and diabetes, I'd be sued left and right. And so are you able to claim that without getting in trouble? Yeah. It's a gas. It's a medical gas. FDA gave grass status 15 years ago. But you can claim that it's going to... Well, you can reference a study. I'll never say this water will do this. I will say hydrogen gas does this.

48:28There is no way they get back out of that. There are too many countries involved, too many studies, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. There are too many. Now you have the companies that are making chemotherapy drugs, combining it with hydrogen, and seeing 100 % cancer cell death in the body. Interesting. I mean, we can go anywhere you want to go. I can go, right? I can go anywhere you want to go. We've got thousands of studies. So we could go cancer, like you just said, any type of cancer? Well, we have currently 125 studies on different types of cancer. I would say, let's talk about which type of cancer.

49:06Here's a study that talks about that. If I don't have a study specific to that type of cancer, then I will say, what causes cancer? Oxidative stress and inflammation. So hydrogen may help. But until I've got a study I can reference, I'm not going to say yes. Oh, that's smart. Yeah. Okay, so I have one for you because I have a lot of moms listening and those that want to be a mom. So how about infertility? Yes, there are studies on sperm motility. There are studies on infertility in general. Absolutely. So really, any health condition you're going to find me a study for? Pretty close. Not every single one.

49:44There are some that are like way esoteric and out there and like 1 % of the population have that thing. There may not be a study, but I'm surprised all the time. I mean, other people are surprised, like, what? That's in there? They've studied that? It all depends on which hospital system and what country saw some researcher saw the need because maybe they had a family member or somebody who had this thing and they want to study it. So none of these studies, I would say probably 95 % are not paid for by anyone. They're just pure science. And that's the best thing, in my opinion, when there's not a company like mine paying for studies.

50:25Sometimes there are companies saying, I paid for it. I want a certain outcome. And that's how medicine is kind of manipulated. It's better that these are hospital systems. These are medical systems that are doing the studies for the pure interest of health. And then we can show the studies and go, they're talking about hydrogen. We make a product that has a demonstrated volume of hydrogen gas in it. It is going to deliver that to the body. We have water, inhalation, bath units, every possible way to get hydrogen into the body. Because interestingly, taking a bath is excellent for skin issues, collagen, any issues with acne, psoriasis, eczema, cystic acne, all these kinds of things, weight loss, brown fat activation, all these kinds of things where you take a bath every day in hydrogen water for 30 days, you're going to have a lot of benefits.

51:19Oh boy, I didn't even think about a bath. Okay. Correct. So we have every way for you to get it and we have the studies to back up that mechanism of delivery. Okay. Tell me how I'm going to have a hydrogen bath. What am I buying from you? It's a unit that sits next to your tub and there's two tubes that go in. One's pulling water and then pushing it back. Okay. And when it comes back, It's got two parts per million of hydrogen gas in that water. And you're going to have your skin get thicker. You're going to have collagen signaled in the skin. People that have eczema, psoriasis, acne, serious acne, within one bath, they're going to see a noticeable, even the tone of the skin, you'll see a difference in one bath.

52:00Okay. I want one of these. I know. I love taking a bath every night. That's my way to relax and unwind for the day. So I need to be sitting in hydrogen. Yep. But this almost sounds too good to be true. Well, again, that, of course, is where the human mind goes to. Because we're used to being told things work and then they don't. And we spend a ton of money on stuff that doesn't work. Again, I'm going to go back to the fact that your body and my body are designed to make hydrogen. If the creator put a hydrogen generator in you and me, it's pretty important. It's just our day and age has messed up the hydrogen generator with all the pesticides, junk, stress.

52:39Yeah, it's more the pesticides and overuse of antibiotics. That's really your two main issues, quite honestly, is that's what kills the bacteria in the gut. Stress destroys you and disturbs your microbiome, of course. But what kills the bacteria right away is your pesticides and basically man-made chemicals that are going in. And that's their job, and they're doing their job well. And we don't realize it. Most people don't realize they're eating multiple pesticides multiple times throughout the day. Yeah. I mean, Dr. Oz, way back, remember Dr. Oz was on the show? Yep. He took, I think it was middle school children and tested their urine.

53:18They had 27 pesticides. Different pesticides in there. And then he put them on an organic diet for three days. Tested their urine after three days. Zero. Oh, interesting. So it's interesting when you think about it because obviously their kidneys and their pancreatic system is working and got the pesticides out. But wow, if you didn't put them in the first place, that sure saves a lot of energy. Yeah. You know? So interesting. So we've talked about how this hydrogen has helped so many different issues and inflammation, things like that. But I want to ask you one more. Yeah. Because probably the main problem I have that I hear about every single day from DMs are women dealing with energy problems.

53:55And I get it. We're busy with toddlers and newborns and babies. Or now I've got the teenagers that also make you tired. and we're working and you know it's just busy yeah so tell me how this helps with energy so great question and i agree i think we both live in utah we know the soda deal where people are basically getting energy through caffeine or whatever but i think it's a real problem i think it really is so there was a study done coffee versus hydrogen water oh interesting okay for sleep deprived individuals. Okay. Hydrogen water one by 10%. So it increased energy more than coffee. Okay.

54:39And there was no dip after 21 minutes, which is typically when coffee begins to drop. Okay. You have an increase and then you have a sharp decline. There was none of that with the hydrogen water they were drinking. So they got hydrogen water versus coffee and it increased their energy 10 % more than coffee, but they had no dip in 21 minutes. So yes, hydrogen can increase energy. As long as we're getting over one part per million of hydrogen gas, then it increases energy. That's the concentration level. Now, this one is over six parts per million. Okay. I was just going to ask you. Yeah. Clearly you have plenty of gas in here, but that's where people are going to feel boost of energy, feel increased energy.

55:24People talk about it all the time. The things they talk about first are sleep, energy, right? Clarity. Those are the things. But what's it actually doing to the body to help with energy? Great, great question. So remember we talked about mitochondrial function before. The mitochondria in our cells are all producing energy, NTP as we call it. What stops that process are radicals. Hydroxyl radical is the most cell damaging radical in the human body. Now, just for giggles, do you know what a hydroxyl radical is made up of? I don't. H-O. It's a hydrogen. Oh, that makes sense. It's a hydrogen and an oxygen.

56:02Okay. What happens if we add another hydrogen to it? Oh, then it's water. There you go. Interesting. So the whole study that was in 2009 that talked about hydrogen being a selective antioxidant, they took hydroxyl radicals in a petri dish, added hydrogen gas, and it created water. Interesting. Now, as fun as that is to talk about, that's not what's happening in the human body. We're not. Okay. It's fun to talk about what's happening in the human body is there are enzyme reactions that hydrogen creates or stimulates. And then your hydroxyl radicals are not forming because you're creating energy without needing oxygen radicals being consumed.

56:40So what really happens is a lot of people that are sugar and carb loading, you're creating oxygen radicals so yes you get an immediate energy boost but then you create oxygen radicals that are disrupting the mitochondrial function so you've got to keep doing it because interesting you're creating a cycle hydrogen will come in and get rid of the hydroxyl radicals it will complete them and get rid of them and then you're producing ATP the way you're you're supposed to so hydrogen is not a stimulant hydrogen is getting rid of the cog in the wheel or the problem why you weren't able to create energy on your own.

57:16So now your body is free to create energy on its own, the way it's designed. Wow. It's incredible. The body really is a miracle how everything works and we just don't know how to work with it correctly. Okay. So I'm curious though, is there any test against hydrogen water and those energy drinks out there? I don't think it's been done. But it'd be similar probably to the coffee one. Yeah. Yeah, because mostly it's caffeine that they're doing anyways. And some people are like, it's green from green tea or it's this or it's natural or whatever. But I use a stimulant. Yeah. And hydrogen will increase energy.

57:55Like, it's something that's palpable. Like, you'll feel it. If people are low, I don't feel it because I have plenty of energy. But people that are low energy, they will feel a boost. Okay. So let's say someone starts drinking this. I'm going to go drink it today. Yep. So I start drinking it today. am I going to feel different an hour later or not necessarily? Oh, you should. Yeah. Just not everybody will. So keep in mind, it's like taking vitamin C when you're not sick. You're going to feel anything? No. If you're sick and you take vitamin C, you could feel a bolstering of your system, right?

58:26But if you're fully healthy and you have no issues, you're not going to feel anything when you drink hydrogen water because there's nothing to fix. There's nothing to modulate. There's no pathways to modulate and increase or decrease. The beautiful thing about hydrogen and why hydrogen is considered completely safe is it will increase or decrease pathways depending on what's needed or it will do nothing. It's whatever the body actually needs. That's what signal modulation is all about. And that's what hydrogen is. Hydrogen is a signal modulator. It's not doing any heavy lifting. Like when we talk about neurologic disorder, there's no stratial hydrogen in the brain.

59:04And what that just means, there's no hydrogen in the brain. There's ghrelin secretions in the brain, but hydrogen stimulated that. So hydrogen is like a manager or coordinator. It's going to get things to work properly, which is why we need it in the body. It's not a quantity thing. It's having hydrogen in the body causes all of the systems to work because that's the coordinator. That's the manager. I know we're almost up on time, but I have two more questions I want to ask you before we wrap up because I know my listeners will say, why didn't you ask these two? Okay. Does it help with fat loss?

59:41Yes. Oh yeah. We have many studies from obesity magazine, from multiple talking about hip to waist ratios. And, and at the end of the day with a 24 week, um, test that was done on drinking hydrogen water, it had the same effect as a calorie restriction diet. Wow. So I'm going to drink this for two weeks to get rid of my gluten issues and I'm going to lose some fat maybe? I don't know if you are. I don't know if you have a lot to lose, but yeah, you could. Okay. Second question, because I know they'll want to know. Does this affect hormones, meaning helping to balance hormones? Because I've got so many listeners that are dealing with hormonal issues and perimenopause or menopause, things like that.

1:00:26There are a bunch of studies on menopause. There are a bunch of studies on female hormones. 100 it balances hormones and we can do i i just did a whole webinar on that about two months ago it was a six-part series on sports hormones you know all different topics we should do a whole another podcast just on hormones just on hormones well yeah because now that i'm talking to you about this i'm like oh my gosh i have guys that are always low in testosterone yep so you're saying it could probably help that and then all right we have to do because testosterone reduces is because of oxidative stress and inflammation.

1:01:01So when you offload that, it's amazing. I just had a gentleman just the other day who called me and said, I went to the doctor. My testosterone level was around 600. And he goes, oh, we should get you to 800. Let me give you some shots. And he goes, I didn't tell him I was on hydrogen water. I didn't tell him I drink hydrogen water every day. And I didn't tell him I go in a red light bed every day. And he goes, I went to 1500. Oh, wow. And he goes, now my libido is down and my blood is so thick, it's a problem. Now they're trying to get me back down and I'm drinking tons of water and do whatever.

1:01:39And so you have to understand that hydrogen modulates all of these things. And so testosterone levels, all these things, killer cells, like your T cells, your killer T cells, all managed by hydrogen. Again, we can talk about anything you want to go. but we can talk about telomeres. Oh, goodness. So telomere length is lengthened when you're drinking. Hydrogen will lengthen a telomere in a healthy cell, but it shortens telomeres in a cancer cell. Interesting. And that's because you don't want the duplication, right, of cells. So, again, what I want people to understand is it's in your body for a reason.

1:02:18It's there for a purpose. And I don't want to say hydrogen is intelligent, but there are some in some cases it increases like a telomere and other places it decreases telomere it's exactly what you would want it's perfection wow you don't want to so a haystack in medicine is a 13 times a cell would reproduce before it goes away right it's called a haystack so hydrogen shortens the telomere so you don't you don't have those cells duplicating that are improperly duplicating. But in a healthy cell, it lengthens telomeres. So they're duplicating beautifully. I mean, again, we can go anywhere you want to go.

1:02:56Well, so all these biohackers trying to, you know, do all these longevity things, they just should be drinking hydrogen water. Ben Greedfield, Dave Asbury, they all drink my water. They're all drinking it. Well, there you go. Gary Brecka was promoting, like all these biohackers, whoever you consider the person you're following, Joe Rogan talked about our water in three years ago. That's where all the scam bottles came from is because he talked about our water how it helped him and dana white and next thing you know there's all these companies from china dumping cheap bottles on alibaba and timu and all those places yes so we we need a good bottle that you we truly know has been scientifically tested to put enough hydrogen gas in the water yeah and this has been tested for three things a does it introduce anything into the water other than hydrogen it does not no kind of metals no kind of issues what parts per million or what concentration does it produce and it's over it's over six parts per million in this in this bottle on a 10 minute cycle if you do a 20 minute cycle it's over eight parts per million and then they tested longevity and so you could use this three times a day or six times a day for five and a half years and have no reduction in hydrogen production.

1:04:11Okay. Yeah. Good to know. Yeah. Okay. Really quick before you tell people where they can get those back to the hormones though, you say it helps with the hormones, with the testosterone, perimenopause, things like that. Are people getting off of HRT hormone replacement therapy because of hydrogen water? I don't know. I can't answer that question because I don't, I don't have any references to say people are getting off. I can tell you So there are people with neurologic issues that are going off medication. There are people with sleep medications that are going off. And there are people with heavy meds from psychotic drugs and things like that that have gone off.

1:04:48And that was doctor assisted. That wasn't like they were just going off the reservation. Right. Their doctor was saying, this is appropriate. You can get off. Keep drinking that water. Okay. And so I would say with hormones, you'll affect hormones rapidly. I just I don't have the knowledge or the examples to say yes there's 10 people that I've talked to in the last month that have all gone off you know I just don't have that okay so they can work with their doctor yeah okay well tell everybody where we can get the echo water sure and maybe because I didn't realize at first that you had more than just the water bottle but you have actual systems for the house and things like that.

1:05:29So tell them what you have and where they can find it. So we have whole house filtration. We have under-sync reverse osmosis and hydrogen unit called the Echo One. And it makes three quarters of a gallon a minute on demand. Reverse osmosis and then hydrogen. We also have a new product coming out in the spring called the Echo 40, which is like one of those big, I don't know, Stanley's a brand. You know, Stanley owns, Stanley owns. stainless steel cups. I don't know insanely, but we have one similar that has the same touchscreen on the handle. Okay. And it will create 40 ounces of hydrogen echo water in that.

1:06:11We have black and off white. We also have bath units we talked about where you can take a bath every day and have a luxurious echo bath. We also have inhalation where you can breathe in hydrogen for people that have long COVID. Oh, interesting. We have 11 studies on long COVID so far. And anyone that's having cytokine storms or inflammation, oxidative stress in the body, it'll help them so they can breathe in hydrogen. We have all different machines. We have two different machines that will go on top of the counter or under sink that makes water and filters water. So if they are in an apartment, they can just get those and connect it to their faucet, their main faucet.

1:06:51and then they can take it when they go. So we have everything there is. We do have a lot of things. All at Echo. What's the website? Echowater.com. Okay. And you have the most incredible protein drinks. I love them. Well, thank you. We do have a drink mix, as you know, that is just, makes the hydrogen water. It is, please don't buy it, buy this. Because this is 15 cents a day. Okay. And you're not going to find any less expensive way to get hydrogen water into your life. But if for some reason people want an apple flavored drink mix that makes hydrogen, they can do that. Interesting. I really would prefer they do this.

1:07:32Okay. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here. I know I've learned a lot. I know the listeners have learned a lot. I always end my show by asking five quick questions. You ready? Yep. Okay. Number one, what emerging health topic are you most excited about right now? Red light. Oh. And infrared and vitamin D, like a UVB to create vitamin D. Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of people don't know that they're not getting UV from the sun. And if they live north of the 37th parallel, which is San Francisco to Richmond, Virginia, everyone who lives north of that, they don't get UV this time of year until we get into spring.

1:08:11And so having a light that can create vitamin D in the body is better than getting it through. other ways. Interesting. We could have a whole show on that. Okay, second question. What's a piece of advice you would give your younger self? Be better at seeing people that are coming to harm. Oh, okay. Be better at seeing that versus getting sucked into their marketing. Interesting. No one's ever given that advice. I love it, though. Number three, what's the one health practice you'll never compromise on no matter how busy life gets? This might be strange to you, but forgiveness. I love that. Becoming good at forgiveness helps you and frees.

1:08:56You don't hold claim on someone else. It lets them continue on their journey. But you yourself aren't holding claim and it frees you. Oh, I love that. No one said that one either. Okay. What's your favorite Just Ingredients product and why? Okay. So I use your chocolate and mint chocolate protein drink. And every morning, my sweetheart, love of my life, my queen, makes me a protein drink. Oh, I love it. And it's your, it's either a mint chocolate or it's the dark chocolate, you know, the dark chocolate one that's amazing. And then she puts this other thing. And I don't know what it is. It's a small white bag about this size that's an additional chocolate.

1:09:41Is it our product? Yeah. Oh, I bet she's putting maybe the hot chocolate in. Yes, that's exactly what I do. Oh, that would be good. Yeah, so that's what she does. And a little peanut butter and banana. Oh, yum. Yeah, so she makes up every morning for me. I didn't have it today because I'm on the podcast, but usually every day she does that. But that's what she uses. But, I mean, when I look in the cupboard, I see the berberine from you. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I see all the stuff. Well, thank you. Tell her thank you. Absolutely. She loves your products. Well, thank you. All right, very last one. What is the best ingredient you've found to life?

1:10:15Love, but love void of judgment. That is what I feel the best ingredient. If we just love and lift others without taking the time to judge or figure out why or this or that, just love and lift people. It is such a different experience. Could you imagine how amazing this world would be if we all could learn how to do that? Yeah. That would be amazing. You know, and I'll go into that for a second because people go, I don't know, you've been screwed over by people, blah, blah, blah. I've had 14 companies, right? So clearly. And I say there's two great commandments, to love and forgive. But we've never been commanded to trust.

1:10:53Oh. And so I love freely. I forgive freely. But I don't trust. Oh, interesting. Until it's earned. And so I'm going to love someone who has screwed me over. And I do. And my employees and friends see that. Because you're good at forgiving. Yeah, we don't get why you do that. And I explain to them, because we're commanded to love and we're commanded to figure. I'm not going to trust that individual. They're not going to get close to do it again. They're not going to be in a position to harm me again. But I will love them and I will forgive them. And I believe that the master that I serve, I believe that's what he does.

1:11:28I love that. That is a great way to end this podcast. Thank you again for being here. Listeners, I hope you love this show. I'm excited to see what's going to happen on this two-week journey of drinking the water. So listeners, stay tuned and I'll let you know. Thank you for being here and being part of this community. Don't forget to subscribe to the Just Ingredients podcast. We've got so much more to share with you. And if you're not already, come join us daily on all social media platforms at just.ingredients. Until next time, keep choosing what nourishes you.

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