Is hydrogen a super-antioxidant?

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The discussion centers on the efficacy of HydrogenBoost, a product claiming to be a super-antioxidant with an ORP of -778 millivolts, significantly lower than traditional antioxidants like grape seed and green tea. Participants express skepticism regarding its claims, particularly due to the lack of FDA approval and the potential for pseudoscientific assertions. A referenced debunking article from 1999 raises further doubts about the validity of such products. The thread was ultimately closed due to the promotion of pseudoscience.

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I saw this stuff called HydrogenBoost at the store a while ago. Does anyone know of any studies on it, or have any opinons based on what they know about cells on whether it will work or not?

Here is a quote from http://www.docwatsonshealthstuff.com/docwatsonsite_00000b.htm:
the strongest natural antioxidants up until now, such as grape seed and green tea, have ORP of -100. But HydrogenBoost has an ORP of -778 millivolts, as compared to distilled water, making it the most potent natural antioxidant available today

I am wondering is if that means anything when a person takes it, since there are lots of vitamins that have to be in a certain form to be utilized by the body, and even though one tablet has more of the vitamin the other tablet is better for you because it is in a more usable form.
 
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I'd be skeptical of the claims of any product that is not FDA-approved. (You may want to be skeptical of some FDA-approved products too, but it at least shows they're making claims backed by scientific evidence.)

Refer to this site for a debunking of the claim, which as you can see by the date, is not new:
http://www.ntskeptics.org/1999/1999march/march1999.htm

Since we do not permit pseudoscience here, I'm now going to close this thread.
 

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