There has been much talk about hydrogen being healthy but also about hydrogenated foods (particularly oil) being\u00a0unhealthy due to the thickening of fluids.Will you please as briefly as possible explain where my thinking is errant.<\/p>\n
That is actually a really good question, that I\u2019d forgotten to address.
\nMany people would wonder the same thing.<\/p>\n
There is a HUGE difference between pure hydrogen gas and \u2018hydrogenated\u2019 products. \u00a0It\u2019s like comparing water and lard.
\nBoth are mostly made of hydrogen but the way the hydrogen atoms are attached to other atoms that make up the molecules makes a HUGE difference to health.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like Chlorine is a harmful gas (it\u2019d kill you if you breathed it) and Sodium is a caustic metal (it\u2019d instantly burn you in it\u2019s pure form), but put them together correctly and you have Sodium Chloride which is table salt and NEEDED by the body. \u00a0So it\u2019s important to not ASSUME that because something SOUNDS similar, that it is similar.<\/p>\n
Normal fat and oils are relatively healthy, a great source of concentrated energy (much more nutritious than sugar). \u00a0But about the mid 1900\u2019s some chemist discovered that if you bubble pure hydrogen through oil or fat then you get a \u2018product\u2019 that has a MUCH longer shelf life\u2026 Mostly because it\u2019s a poison and won\u2019t support life of bacteria that would make ordinary fats \u2018go bad\u2019.<\/p>\n
So they fed us this \u2018frankin-food\u2019 (so called trans-fats) in replacement of (then vilified) normal butter and cooking oils. \u00a0It was all about the marketing and profits, having nothing to do with health\u2026<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, these trans-fats also poison the bacteria in our guts that create our NORMAL hydrogen from our food, so trans-fats are another reason that people are now hydrogen deficient.<\/p>\n
See these links to understand how much we NEED hydrogen (the pure gas).<\/p>\n
Why does hydrogen help health?<\/a><\/p>\n Where do we normally get our hydrogen?<\/p>\n