Negative Hydrogen for Positive Health by Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H)

You may have heard the phrase that the “life of the body is in the blood”, and without delving into the metaphysical considerations, scientifically the statement is spot-on when considering the quality and length of our lives being associated to the condition of our heart and circulatory system. Our heart pumps blood which carries oxygen and nutrients to our tissues and cells, and also carries away the waste products. I have developed my FIGHT For Your Health Program to teach people how the quality of our lives and health is vitally dependant upon the health of our blood, or even more specifically, our cells. Blood is the vehicle and transport system for the fuel but our cells contain the powerhouses. What we do to provide our cells with the optimal environment of necessary nutrients, for energy production, repair and function, and elimination of toxins and wastes, is absolutely crucial to our health, happiness and longevity.

We are all suffering from power failure. On a chemical and physical level all disease is caused by a loss of organization – by entropy – or essentially a loss of energy. Dr. Douglas Wallace of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine in Philadelphia says that “Every one of the diseases we can’t solve is absolutely logical if we put energy at the center”. Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells that produce energy through two metabolic processes. One is the citric acid cycle which converts fuel (food) into ATP and hydrogen, and the second is through oxidative phosphorylation whereby hydrogen is combined with oxygen to generate ATP. Oxidative phosphorylation is the primary energy process for all aerobic organisms. Pollution and various toxins and poor food all contribute to the breakdown of this fundamental cycle.

So what’s hydrogen got to do with achieving and maintaining positive health? Plenty! As a matter of fact, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered Vitamin C, said that hydrogen, not oxygen, is the “fuel of life”. We all know that the body needs oxygen in order to live. What most do not know is that 90% of matter in our Universe is made up of hydrogen and we need it just as much as we need oxygen, as oxygen burns hydrogen, which releases the energy that runs our bodies.

Our ancestors replenished their hydrogen stores by eating fresh, minimally processed or raw foods, animal protein of high quality and freshness, and by drinking clean, unfiltered water from natural deep aquifers. Unfortunately the naturally occurring hydrogen in our environ- ment has been drastically reduced by heating, processing, milling, prolonged exposure to air or prolonged storage, and pollutants. Overprocessing and our modern diets have also resulted in many people acquiring food intolerances to things like lactose and gluten, causing intestinal dysbiosis, candida overgrowth and leaky gut syndrome.

Most of our body’s hydrogen stores are in the liver and intestines, which is also where the majority of our detoxification processes occur. Our energy production is further affected as our liver is overburdened with toxins. Our body responds with chronic inflammation and an