Since the Appearance of Humans
Humans appeared very late in the oxygen age. The invention of oxygen-metabolism, important as it is in the evolution of life, created a novel problem of harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) and aerobic organisms invented various means to cope with ROS. N
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Molecular Hydrogen for Medicine The Art of Ancient Life Revived
Molecular Hydrogen for Medicine
Yuh Fukai
Molecular Hydrogen for Medicine The Art of Ancient Life Revived
Yuh Fukai Department of Physics Prof. Emer. of Chuo University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-7156-5 ISBN 978-981-15-7157-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7157-2
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Preface
This is a book of introduction to Molecular Hydrogen Medicine, a young field of medicine initiated by a seminal paper of Ohsawa and others in 2007. They reported that inhalation of hydrogen gas led to the elimination of harmful reactive oxygen species in rats and proceeded further to demonstrate various physiological effects and possible medical applications of hydrogen gas. After vigorous research activities of many people that ensued, their discovery was firmly established, and numerous clinical projects were started, yielding eye-opening results in many cases. Unfortunately, however, the vast array of research results remains mostly unknown to the public, and there are even many skeptics among medical specialists. In fact, the discovery of Ohsawa et al. came as a surprise to most people in biochemistry and medicine because hydrogen gas was generally regarded to be an inert gas doing nothing to the living body. This “common sense” of biochemistry, namely the inactivity
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