Molecular Hydrogen for Healthy Skin
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The use of Hydrogen as the baseline for your daily skin routine is rapidly gaining in popularity and is backed by scientific studies as to its effectiveness for a youthful looking skin.
In the New Zealand environment where our UV rays are particularly harsh, it makes perfect sense that people are choosing molecular hydrogen as their go to skin care product.
Unlike most skincare products, a Hydrogenix facial mist sprayer is a small one off investment that can be used for years to come.
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Some of the benefits you may get from regularly spraying molecular Hydrogen directly onto the skin are:
There is a significant amount of anecdotal evidence around the benefits of using Molecular hydrogen for a more youthful look. However there is also a lot of scientific evidence as follows.
The evidence is strong
Reduce wrinkling and increase elasticity
There have been 3 in depth medical studies as to the effectiveness of Molecular Hydrogen water as a skin care treatment. The results all conclusively revealed that bathing in hydrogen water decreased the Oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of human skin.
So why is reducing the ORP of human skin beneficial?? The easiest way to understand this is by thinking about the ORP of your car. The higher this ORP level is, the more likely it is to rust (oxidise). The lower the ORP, the less likely it is to rust. The exact same goes for skin. A lower ORP is less susceptible to oxidation, and therefore less likely to wrinkle. Bathing in the Hydrogen water not only reduced the ORP of skin, but it also improved its elasticity, due to hydrogen's ability to penetrate down to the epidermis layer of your skin.
Protection from UVA skin damage
In another study, hairless mice were subjected to sunburn in a controlled manner. Post exposure, one group were bathed in tap water and the other in hydrogen water. The skin of the mice bathed in Hydrogen water showed significantly lower indices of skin injury and lower inflammatory cytokine levels.
Another group of researchers performed a similar study and found that bathing mice in hydrogen water reduced the level of skin damage, increased activity of the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase, lowered inflammatory cytokines, and prevented ultrastructure changes of the skin, suggesting hydrogen water can protect against UV-induced skin cell damage.
This was also validated in another article where hydrogen water was shown to be very beneficial for UV induced skin cell damage. The study showed that Type-1 collagen was synthesized about two-fold more in cells treated with hydrogen water. It also prevented DNA damage, cell death, and decreased levels of intracellular free radicals.
Wrinkle Reduction
A study also revealed that in human subjects, bathing in hydrogen water for three months significantly improved wrinkles in the skin. The authors concluded that hydrogen water might serve as a daily skin care to repress UVA-induced skin damage by scavenging free radicals and promoting type-1 collagen synthesis.
Hydrogen water was also seen to prevent arsenic-impaired calcium signaling (which is involved in skin cancer) in keratinocytes (predominate cell type in skin) through both its antioxidant and non antioxidant cell signaling effects. In other words, hydrogen not only exerts protection and benefits on skin because it's an antioxidant, but also as a cell signaling molecule.
Reference to above evidence
1. KATO, S., SAITOH, Y., IWAI, K. & MIWA, N. (2012). Hydrogen-rich electrolyzed warm water represses wrinkle formation against UVA ray together with type-I collagen production and oxidative-stress diminishment in fibroblasts and cell-injury prevention in keratinocytes. J Photochem Photobiol B 106, 24-33.
2. Shiochi Okouchi, et al. Electrolyzed-Reduced Water as Artificial Hot Spring Water. Journal of the Balneological Society of Japan. V 53, No. 1, p. 1-9 2003)
3. S. Okouchi, et al. Water Desirable for the Human Body in Terms of Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) to pH Relationship. Journal of Food Science. V. 67. Iss. 5, p. 1594-1598. 2002
4. H. Meffert, et al. Stable lipid peroixidation products in human skin: detection, ultraviolet light-induced increase, pathogenic importance. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. V 32, No. 11, p. 1397-1398
5. OKOUCHI SHOICHI, et al. Relationships between ORP (Redox Potentials) and pH in Hot and Cold Spring Waters and in Human Skins. Journal of the Balneological Society of Japan. V 49. No. 2, p. 59-64. 1999
6. OKOUCHI, SHOICHI, et al. "; Relationship between ORP (Oxidation Reduction Potential) and pH in Spring Waters of Carbon Dioxide Type." Journal of the Balneological Society of Japan 50.2 (2000): 94-101.
7. Shochi Ocouchi, Hideyuki Ohnami, et al. Effect of Electrolyzed-Reduced Water as Artificial Hot Spring Water on Human Skin and Hair. Journal of the Balneological Society of Japan. V 55. No. 2, p. 55-63. 2005
8. YOON, K. S., HUANG, X. Z., YOON, Y. S., KIM, S. K., SONG, S. B., CHANG, B. S., KIM, D. H. & LEE, K. J. (2011). Histological study on the effect of electrolyzed reduced water-bathing on UVB radiation-induced skin injury in hairless mice. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin 34, 1671-7.
9. IGNACIO, R. M., YOON, Y. S., SAJO, M. E. J., KIM, C. S., KIM, D. H., KIM, S. K. & LEE, K. J. (2013). The balneotherapy effect of hydrogen reduced water on UVB-mediated skin injury in hairless mice. Molecular & Cellular Toxicology 9, 15-21.
10. KATO, S., SAITOH, Y., IWAI, K. & MIWA, N. (2012). Hydrogen-rich electrolyzed warm water represses wrinkle formation against UVA ray together with type-I collagen production and oxidative-stress diminishment in fibroblasts and cell-injury prevention in keratinocytes. J Photochem Photobiol B 106, 24-33.
11. YU, W. T., CHIU, Y. C., LEE, C. H., YOSHIOKA, T. & YU, H. S. (2013). Hydrogen-enriched water restoration of impaired calcium propagation by arsenic in primary keratinocytes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 77, 342-348.
12. OHSAWA, I., ISHIKAWA, M., TAKAHASHI, K., WATANABE, M., NISHIMAKI, K., YAMAGATA, K., KATSURA, K., KATAYAMA, Y., ASOH, S. & OHTA, S. (2007). Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals. Nat Med 13, 688-694.
13. ITOH, T., HAMADA, N., TERAZAWA, R., ITO, M., OHNO, K., ICHIHARA, M. & NOZAWA, Y. (2011). Molecular hydrogen inhibits lipopolysaccharide/interferon gamma-induced nitric oxide production through modulation of signal transduction in macrophages. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 411, 143-9.