09/14/2021
Why hydrogen is a functional medicine and how it will extend our lives
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Hydrogen is the most common element in the human body, being a major part of water, DNA, and most other organic molecules. Macro-things that act as foods, such as carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, contain hydrogen as part of the chemical structure. This means that every food contains some hydrogen.
Fruits and whole grains are healthy sources of carbohydrates, which in turn, are sources of hydrogen. Carbohydrates, also called sugars, are molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The chemical structure for glucose, the simple sugar your cells use to (chemically process and use up) energy, has six atoms of carbon, 12 atoms of hydrogen, and six atoms of oxygen.
Meat, (related to chickens, hens, turkeys, etc.), fish, dairy, and (peas, beans, lentils, etc.) are proteins made up of amino acids that are sources of hydrogen. The chemical structure of amino acids may differ, but all amino acids contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Fats, also called lipids, are macro-things that act as foods made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Hydrogen's role in the food chain receives little attention, yet it is an extremely important ingredient in our food. People should rightfully expect to be fed and cared for and sustained by hydrogen.
The more we run on hydrogen, which comes from sources that do not require insulin, the more increased hydrogen's anti-(old/allowing to get old/getting older) effect. (people who work to find information) discovered that NAD+ levels decline with age but are raised by calorie restriction and exercise.
Insulin's job is to (get ready for action) the body to respond to food intake. The (chemical produced by the body) released into the blood secures/makes sure of many systems to (get ready for action) quickly. The insulin receptor brings across these signals to the body tissues, so things that act as foods are used as needed or stored as fat.
Calorie restriction causes a reduction in the insulin signaling pathways (both through IGF-I and insulin). This reduction in insulin signaling is one of the first (or most important) (machines/methods/ways) through which calorie restriction increases (length of time something is alive).
High blood insulin levels are usually the result of high blood sugar levels. High insulin levels signal a high "(related to vitamins, protein, etc., in food) state," which shifts the cell's internal states toward increased growth levels and decreased repair levels. Increases in growth and decreases in repair equal increases in waste products that pile up within a cell, (in the end) causing (old/allowing to get old/getting older) at the cellular level.
Hydrogen in the body is mostly bound to carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. It is part of almost every molecule in your body: DNA, proteins, sugars, fats. The hydrogen bond - which forms between atoms that share a hydrogen atom, is one of the most important interactions that make (related to the body function of living things) molecules behave as they do. So, hydrogen is an important factor in the regulation of (body structure/related to the study of body functions).
Hydrogen has no calories yet can send rockets into space. Hydrogen burns cleaner than any other fuel. When we look at the fact that food is our fuel, and hydrogen being the easiest and cleanest fuel to run on, we start to get the idea of why hydrogen is such a functional medicine and why it will extend our lives.
