Frequently Asked Questions

George's own practice: about 10 minutes per liter (roughly a quart) of water, using an AquaCure running at its standard 50 liters-per-hour gas output.

For best results, use a fine-bubble diffuser, like the kind used in fish tanks, rather than letting the gas come out as large bubbles. This maximizes how much of the gas actually makes contact with the water.

Because bubbling water with HydrOxy changes what the water actually does for you, not just what's dissolved in it.

Most water, including plain distilled water, is electron-deficient. When you drink it, your body has to expend some of its own energy processing it. Water that's been bubbled with HydrOxy is electron-rich instead, thanks to the ExW (Electrically Expanded Water) component, so instead of costing your body energy, it contributes some. This shows up as a measurable shift in ORP (oxidation-reduction potential): ordinary tap water typically tests positive, meaning electron-deficient, while HydrOxy-bubbled water tests meaningfully negative. That shift from positive to negative ORP is a big part of what makes water genuinely hydrating, beyond simply containing H2O.

On top of that electron-rich quality, bubbled water also carries dissolved hydrogen itself, which functions as a supplement for the body's most abundant element. And because HydrOxy is inhaled elsewhere in a typical routine, drinking bubbled water isn't a replacement for that; it's a second, complementary way to get the same core benefits (hydrogen and bioavailable electrons) into your system throughout the day, alongside inhalation rather than instead of it.

About a day, roughly speaking. Bubbling water with HydrOxy enhances it in a few different ways at once (ORP, frequencies, pH, and more), and most of that "charge" fades over time. Testing shows charged water has a half-life of about 24 hours: after a day, roughly half the extra energetic benefit is gone, and after another day, half of what remained is gone too.

The water doesn't go bad as this happens. It's still good, clean water. It just gradually loses the extra boost that bubbling provided. This is the practical reason to bubble your own water fresh with a machine like the AquaCure rather than buying pre-bottled "hydrogen water": bottled versions are typically tested and marketed based on how they measure right after production, not after they've been sitting on a shelf for days or weeks by the time they reach you.

There's a lot of general advice online about daily water intake, but three things matter more than most people realize: how much you're drinking, what kind of water it is, and when you drink it.

How much is enough?

A simple starting point: multiply your body weight by roughly two-thirds to get your daily minimum in ounces. For example, someone weighing 175 pounds would aim for about 117 ounces a day, or roughly 3.6 quarts. If that number surprises you, you're not alone; most people drink well under this amount.

Activity level adjusts that baseline. Add about 12 ounces of water for every 30 minutes of exercise, since you lose water through sweat and breathing, and your body needs more water to help clear the metabolic byproducts of exercise. Someone who works out for 45 minutes, for example, would add about 18 ounces to their daily total.

What kind of water matters as much as how much.

Clean water matters because most impurities in water, whether from minerals your body can't use, or residues like hormones and other trace contaminants, create work for your body rather than helping it.

A higher pH can be a good sign, but only when it comes from the right source. Water gets its pH boosted in different ways: some technologies raise pH by concentrating minerals already in the water, while HydrOxy raises it because of the extra hydrogen and electrons it adds. The mineral-based approach doesn't carry the same benefit; it's the hydrogen itself that does the real work.

The most important, and most overlooked, factor is ORP (oxidation-reduction potential), which measures whether water is electron-rich or electron-deficient. Electron-deficient water (positive ORP, which describes most tap water) pulls electrons from your body as you drink it. Electron-rich water (negative ORP) does the opposite: it gives electrons to your body, which is a meaningful part of what makes water genuinely hydrating rather than just wet. HydrOxy-bubbled water is electron-rich because of the ExW component, which is why it tests with a notably negative ORP compared to ordinary tap water.

When you drink matters too, and it's worth building a routine around.

• Start your day with at least a liter of HydrOxy-bubbled water right when you wake up.
• Spread your daily water intake out with a consistent routine rather than trying to catch up all at once.
• If you feel hungry, try drinking water first (up to a liter), since thirst and hunger are commonly confused. If you're still hungry after that, go ahead and eat.
• Drink a liter of HydrOxy-bubbled water 20 to 30 minutes before a meal. This can help reduce how much you eat out of a hydrogen need rather than an actual food need, and gives your body water to work with for digestion.
• Sip water steadily during exercise; your body needs more water to work efficiently than most people expect.

It depends on where in the system the water is going. The AquaCure treats three different water uses differently:

In the AquaCure itself, and in the Humidifier: no. Use only distilled (or otherwise certified pure) water in both. Filtered, spring, well, and rain water all carry impurities that cause real problems: some produce poisonous gasses you don't want to inhale, most cause sludge to form quickly enough to clog the machine's internal passages, and some plate onto the electrodes and eventually cause the machine to stop producing gas. Impurities can also cause foaming, which pushes lye out of the AquaCure faster than intended and can overwhelm the Humidifier. Since the Humidifier's whole job is scrubbing residual lye out of the gas before it reaches you, feeding it anything less than pure water compromises that safety step and risks lye reaching your drinking water.

RO (reverse osmosis, also called deionized) water is a partial exception, but with a real caveat. RO water can theoretically work in the AquaCure and Humidifier, but only if it's genuinely high-purity, tested at 50,000 ohms of resistance or higher. In practice, most home and even business RO systems aren't well maintained enough to reliably hit that mark; more impurities in the water means lower resistance. Unless you have certified, tested RO water at that purity level, treat it the same as filtered, spring, well, or rain water and use distilled instead.

In the Drinking Water Bubbler: your choice. This is the water you actually drink, so whatever you're most comfortable with is fine here, RO, filtered, or otherwise. The general recommendation is BG-bubbled distilled water, since starting with a clean base and adding HydrOxy to it gives you both purity and the added benefit of hydrogen and ExW. But the AquaCure's operation doesn't depend on what's in the Drinking Water Bubbler the way it depends on purity everywhere else.

See also: Is it safe to drink only distilled water?

Yes. George has been drinking distilled water exclusively since 2005.

The concern people usually raise is that distilled water, over the long term, leaches minerals from the body without replacing them. A few things are worth understanding about that. First, the "detox" effect that concerns people takes a long time to happen at all, and it's questionable whether it ever fully removes everything critics claim it does. Second, while it's true that distilled water (like all water) pulls some minerals out of the body along with it, this isn't unique to distilled water; all water does this to some degree. Third, most of the minerals typically added back into water (by ionizers and similar products, for example) aren't in a form your body can actually absorb and use. Adding them back doesn't give you something usable; it just gives your body more non-bioavailable material to process and eventually eliminate as waste.

The minerals your body actually needs come from food, not water. Plants convert raw minerals into forms your body can use; a glass of mineralized water generally doesn't. There are a small number of exceptions, like sodium chloride (table salt), which the body can absorb fairly directly, but most people already get enough of that from their diet without needing to add it to their water. If you're sweating heavily and drinking a lot of water, a salt tablet might be worth considering, but that's a specific situation, not a general recommendation.

There's also a practical case for distillation specifically, beyond the mineral question: it's an effective way to remove microplastics from water, something filtering alone doesn't reliably do.

One important distinction: plain distilled water and HydrOxy-bubbled distilled water aren't the same thing to drink. Plain distilled water is electron-deficient, meaning your body has to expend some energy processing it. Water that's been bubbled with HydrOxy is electron-rich, thanks to the ExW component, so instead of costing your body energy, it contributes some.