You shared with us it is beneficial to drink hydrogen-suffused water at intervals throughout the day, in order to keep up a regular renewed delivery of this antioxidant. What about ingesting water containing novel life forms? Is that best done at intervals during each day, or are they longer-lived in the body? Will accumulating more be increasingly beneficial, or will a sufficient dose of such water last for days or weeks? What is an optimum dose regimen?

The question is an insightful one because these are really apples and oranges being compared. So the presence of hydrogen, which is volatile and disperses quickly, is taken up readily by free oxygen radicals in the tissues, and hence, needs to be applied in a steady fashion to keep up with oxidation mechanisms taking place continually through the metabolic processes in the body. To be effective, there must be a continual ingestion or delivery of additional hydrogen to create an ideal steady-state coverage of antioxidant potential. That, of course, is ideal and not feasible with intermittent intake, and a continuous infusion is not practical, but regular intake of sips of water will be a very reasonable compromise to keep the flow going and keep the exposure to the benefits going on a regular basis. A priming with a good volume of water at mealtimes will help as well because there will be differing requirements and benefits depending on levels reached within the tissues of the hydrogen being ingested and spreading through the body. Some areas require much higher delivery to counteract the negative effects of oxidative by‑products, so a mix of high dose and medium dose coverage will be helpful. It is possible to overhydrate, but this does change the argument usually mounted to dismiss the need for the mantra of drinking eight glasses of water a day. It is a simplistic notion promoted by science that any water ingested beyond a certain quantity will simply be excreted quickly to maintain the normal electrolyte balance and not dilute it from the body, or throw values out of the ideal normal physiologic concentration range. So the kidneys will indeed regulate the level of water in the body to keep the electrolytes in balance, but at the same time, with it being ingested, spreading through the bloodstream and diffusing into the tissues to exchange with the water already present, what happens with an oversupply is that more suffused hydrogen will be delivered to the body. So even though the water itself might be extracted continually by the kidneys at a high excretion rate, the process of absorption, distribution, and then elimination allow ongoing exchange of hydrogen all along the way, and thereby, there is a therapeutic delivery taking place of the antioxidant hydrogen gas. And so, in the case of water containing this additional treatment, more rather than less would be beneficial as long as the kidneys are functioning well, and the person is not overhydrated and thereby taxing the cardiovascular system.