Question: are there technologies that can benefit millions of people that sit forgotten in research labs and research papers for years, if not decades?
Sadly, yes. And people can suffer unnecessary illness and death as a result.
Here is one example of a few that have crossed my path over the years. In 1976, I read a paper about "hyperbaric hydrogen therapy"; rats with skin cancers put in a high-pressure chamber with mostly hydrogen lost their tumours. The university told the professors researching this, "it's a bomb", and uninsurable so the work stopped there. I however started a 37-year quest to know if there was something to this idea.
Hydrogen gas is considered inert and is used in diving gas and TIG welding gas mixtures. I did notice a claim by health spas that mineral waters containing dissolved hydrogen seemed to give those who drank it regularly a huge pick-me-up. Well, of course it could be all in the head or a placebo as 2-4 ppm is right down at homeopathic levels.
Hydrogen water can also be made using slow-release magnesium sticks that infuse water with hydrogen. As well lactulose, an exotic sugar, and common geriatric laxative is the fuel to enables the colon to manufacture hydrogen and appears to be great for colon health. However other gut bacteria consume hydrogen and the colon seems not to be able to transfer much hydrogen to the rest of the body.
I still periodically scanned the journals to see if there was some new evidence about what is termed "molecular hydrogen" - then about two years ago, I was profoundly shocked as there was a deluge of work published about "molecular hydrogen" gas as a medicinal agent.
Then the big shocker: hydrogen breathed in or dissolved in water, or perhaps trapped in a slow release foam or gel appeared to interact with 38 of the most common diseases, too long to list in this article, in measurable ways. It seemed to be a universal antioxidant, able to interfere with some cancer biology, reduce inflammation amongst its neat little tricks.
There are now 200 papers published about "molecular hydrogen" since 2008. I will post for those wanting to dig deeper the first and summary pages of about 30 significant papers in a powerpoint at www.slideshare.net/lifespan.pharma.inc.
Will the next 10 years integrate this humble gas into the blockbuster medicine category? I certainly hope so. Medicare needs low cost, simple easily accessed things that put some measurable interference on the root causes of "natural aging" and the diseases that result. The road to living well for longer than we would ever make bets on is littered with many similar things that we have had right under our noses.
I must end with this regulatory disclaimer: the information I present in this column is not designed to diagnose or treat any disease, or replace the consultation with a doctor, and you should consult a health professional before undertaking anything related to what you might learn from this column or online materials I might point out.
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