Cancer is a frightening disease. Even in the 21st century with advanced technology, this problem has not been overcome. In addition to existing surgical treatments, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, scientists are constantly trying various new strategies. Meanwhile, hydrogen therapy gives patients innovative options.

Do You Understand Cancer?

The cause of cancer is the body's exposure to environmental pollution, chemical pollution (chemical toxins), ionizing radiation, free radical toxins, microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.) and their metabolic toxins, genetic characteristics, endocrine imbalance, immune dysfunction and other carcinogenic factors. These factors cause normal cells in the body to become cancerous. Generally, it manifests as a local mass formed by abnormal cell proliferation in local tissues. Then cancer cells can release a variety of toxins, causing the human body to produce a series of symptoms. In addition, cancer cells can also migrate to grow and reproduce throughout the body, which causes weight loss, weakness, anemia, loss of appetite, fever, severe damage to organ functions, etc.

3 Major Effects of Hydrogen Inhalation Machines on Cancer

1. Alleviate fatigue

Cancer patients experience fatigue more easily than the general population. However, for improving cancer fatigue, traditional measures are either ineffective or have many adverse reactions, which are often difficult for patients to tolerate. Because it has no side effects and is effective, hydrogen therapy become an excellent approach.

How does hydrogen relieve fatigue in cancer patients? It is now recognized that the accumulation of peroxide free radicals is a central factor in fatigue. In this regard, H2 has the following methods to fight peroxide free radicals in the body:

• Directly reduces hydroxyl radicals.
• Directly reduce peroxynitrite and regulate gene expression.
• Modulates gene expression to indirectly reduce oxidative stress. Meanwhile, hydrogen can improve peroxidative damage in an Nrf2-dependent manner.

2. Eliminate inflammation

Cancer cells are normal cells that become traitors due to genetic defects during their replication or under the influence of the microenvironment. Because of inflammation, organ cell damage increases and the number of cell divisions increases, resulting in increased formation of cancer cells. In short, controlling inflammation can help control cancer.

Both cell and animal experiments have confirmed that hydrogen gas can inhibit the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and reduce the expression of factors such as N-terminal kinase (JNK). At the same time, it prevents phosphorylated ERK from translocating from the cytoplasm to the nucleus, which reduces the expression of inflammatory mediators and alleviates the inflammatory response.

3. Suppress cancer cells

H2 can inhibit cancer cells, which is generally believed to be due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. The most powerful and toxic oxidants in the body are -OH and ONOO-. They can act on nucleic acids, lipids and proteins, causing DNA damage, lipid peroxidation and protein denaturation. Besides, smoking, air pollution, chemicals, mental stress, inflammation and other factors can promote cell mutation by inducing these peroxidants and triggering the formation of cancer cells. Fortunately, hydrogen gas is a specific scavenger of these two oxidants.

It cannot be ignored that hydrogen molecules can also inhibit the proliferation and movement of cancer cells and promote the degeneration of cancer cells.

Research and Case Studies

Hydrogen is one of the most basic chemical elements in nature. In the past, it was thought that it had no effect on cells and was harmless. As research continues, it has been confirmed that hydrogen has potential therapeutic value for more than 160 diseases.

• In 1975, American scholar Dole and others published an article in Science magazine, reporting that animals continuously breathing 97.5% hydrogen at 8 atmospheres of pressure effectively inhibited skin squamous cell carcinoma. It was first proposed that molecular hydrogen inhibits tumors through antioxidant effects.
• Japanese scholars have discovered that drinking hydrogen water for animals with cirrhosis can prevent liver cancer.
• Scholars from Shanghai Jiao Tong University discovered that hydrogen can inhibit intestinal cancer in animals. By regulating the redox microenvironment and interfering with the expression of genes related to cancer cell proliferation, it can promote cancer cell apoptosis and inhibit cancer cell proliferation.

Conclusion

Modern scientific and technological research has proven that hydrogen molecules can selectively neutralize reactive oxygen free radicals to achieve the effect of resisting oxidative damage. With the characteristics of strong diffusibility and permeability, it is one of the few most superior antioxidants found so far that has no toxic side effects. To sum up, the hydrogen inhalation machine will have unlimited potential for cancer relief.