Hydrogen Vs Influenza

What Is the Flu?

Influenza – more commonly known as “the flu” – is viral in origin. However, the exact same symptoms can be produced by bacterial infection too.

Flu symptoms may include:

A 100 degree Fahrenheit (or higher) fever or feeling feverish (not everyone with the flu has a fever)
A cough and/or sore throat
A runny or stuffy nose
Headaches and/or body aches
Chills
Fatigue – where you cannot or do not want to get out of bed

How Does Hydrogen Ease Influenza

In short Hydrogen can only possible ease the symptoms of the flu by reducing inflammation and neutralising the harmful free radicals in the body. About one month ago , I had the flu myself , and I’ve been using Hydrogen Inhalation and drinking Hydrogen rich water for well over 3 years now, and most the time I find the effects of Hydrogen fairly subtle, better mood, better energy, better sleep, Joints more flexible. But when I had this nasty flu a month ago and I could feel the inflammation in my body went up dramatically, and from breathing in the Hydrogen I really felt that improvement of reduced inflammation within 2 hours, and then at that point I said to myself , now I understand what Hydrogen does in the body, I could really feel it act quickly.

If you are looking for literally dozens of scientific research papers on Hydrogen Medicine Therapy: As An Effective and Promising Novel Treatment for Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) Induced by Influenza and Other Viral Infections Diseases

Please click on this link…. SOJ Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

But I need More !

I’m a strong believer, if your tackling the flu or many other health challenges, you need to stack together different strategies to be really effective. The Hydrogen part can help ease the inflammation but for the Virus,I think Jini’s 7-Day Antiviral Wild Oregano Oil Protocol is brilliant here is her link if you would like to see her home remedy page for Flu https://listentoyourgut.com/the-flu/ and I have pasted in her protocol below, her website is a feast of knowledge in natural health care and I highly recommend her , especially if you know anyone with IBS, Crohn’s disease or Colitis https://listentoyourgut.com/

Use this protocol to prevent contracting the flu, or, to heal the flu very quickly if you’ve already got it.

So, I’m going to share with you what I do, that has repeatedly worked so well for me. This protocol uses a commercial brand of wild oregano (like Joy of the Mountains or Oreganol – which is already diluted 3:1) NOT essential oil of oregano.

Watch this video where my daughter Zara (aged 5) and I show you exactly how to take wild oregano oil so you don’t have to experience the burning sensation:

Jini’s 7-Day Antiviral Wild Oregano Oil Protocol

Take 5 drops every hour for 24 hours – begin this at the first exposure to the virus or first symptom. If you are sleeping, don’t wake yourself up to take it, but let yourself sleep (which greatly assists your immune system). However, if you get up to go to the bathroom, etc. then take a double dose of 10 drops.
Then take 10 drops every 3 hours, for 48 hours – again, if you are sleeping, don’t wake yourself up to take it, but let yourself sleep (which greatly assists your immune system). However, if you get up to go to the bathroom, etc. then take a dose of 10 drops.
Then take 10 drops, 3x/day for the next 2 days – just take the dose during waking hours.
Take 5 drops, 3x/day for the next 2 days – just take the dose during waking hours.
Take high dose probiotics for the next 2 weeks to repopulate your gut with good bacteria. Remember that wild oregano oil is antibiotic, as well as antiviral, so after a heavy dosage like this, you MUST balance the bacterial flora in your GI tract by flooding it with good bacteria. If you’re taking the Natren probiotics that I recommend, this means you take 1 tsp of each powder, 3x/day OR 1 Healthy Trinity Capsule, 2x/day. Remember to use the powders if you are having more than 3 bowel movements per day – otherwise the transit time through your GI tract is too fast for the capsules to dissolve properly.

NOTE: Take on an empty stomach for maximum potency, then drink a full glass of water immediately after to dilute in the stomach. This protocol is only suitable for adults.

Or Use Olive Leaf Extract as a Flu Remedy

Wild oregano oil is also anti-inflammatory, so should be fine for most people. But, as with any substance, some people will not tolerate it. In that case, use olive leaf extract instead, follow the same guidelines above, but use 1 capsule of olive leaf for every 5 drops of wild oregano. So if you are directed to use 10 drops wild oregano, use 2 capsules of olive leaf instead.

Guidelines For Children

For my children, aged 5 – 12, I let their own immune systems handle the flu if possible, since I feel it is important for their immune system development. However, if we need to get them healthy fast – perhaps we are flying to Mexico in two days, or they have a big performance coming up – then I use the following flu treatment for my children:

5 drops of wild oregano, three times per day. If they have a cough or sore throat, they gargle the water/oregano mixture first and then swallow, and then do not drink any water for 10 minutes. If it is bedtime, they don’t drink any water after swallowing the gargle, so the wild oregano can really go to work on the infection in their throat, ensuring them a much better night’s sleep. See my video below for how to give wild oregano to kids.
30 drops of Astragalus and 30 drops of Medicinal Mushrooms in a shot glass of hot water, twice per day, preferably on an empty stomach.
When antiviral treatment is over, they take daily Natren probiotics to keep a healthy gut flora.

Flu Prevention During Flu Season

During the winter months, my whole family takes these supplements to help our immune systems stay strong on a daily basis:

Natren probiotics (kids can use the powder version, mixed in chocolate milk or yoghurt)
Cod liver oil
Vitamin D
Bone Support
Trace Minerals
Gummi Bear Multi-Vitamins

We also eat organic food (higher vitamin and mineral levels) and do not have any WiFi or cellphones in our house. We unplug everything in the bedrooms before sleep. Sleep needs to be a time of restoration and repair, so you don’t want to have radiation or electricity interfering with your body’s own electromagnetic field.

Yes, it is possible to have 3 kids in school and no flu bugs all winter!

If you don’t live or sleep with someone who has the flu, but it’s going around your office (for example) and you want to protect yourself, then take 5 drops of wild oregano, 3 times per day.

Other possible suggestion…

Gigartina & Dumontiacea Strains of Red Marine Algae

If you’re struggling with any type of chronic virus, skin troubles, and a generally weak immune system, red marine algae is worth learning more about.

Gigartina papillata is an active strain of red marine algae found particularly beneficial for the skin and immune system. It’s very rich is sulfated polysaccharides, which are unique protein-bound carbohydrates, found to support the body’s immune response to bacteria, viruses, fungi and toxins.

Botanical science has discovered and identified a substantial number of substances and compounds from plants that can improve functions of the human immune response. They have probably been playing that supporting role as part of the human diet for millennia. One specialised group of immune enhancing substances is the sulfated polysaccharides, sulfur containing complex sugars found most notably in a select group of sea plants especially in Red Marine Algae.

Iodine: the Forgotten Weapon
Against Influenza Viruses

After the 1918 Influenza Pandemic which killed an estimated 30 million people, governments

financed research on the Pandemic’s causes. Over 25 years, influenza viruses were isolated and methods
for killing them with various agents discovered. Iodine was the most effective agent for killing viruses,
especially influenza viruses. Aerosol iodine was found to kill viruses in sprayed mists, and solutions of
iodine were equally effective. In 1945, Burnet and Stone found that putting iodine on mice snouts prevented the mice from being infected with live influenza virus in mists. They suggested that impregnating
masks with iodine would help stop viral spread.

Precaution many supplement companies put on their recommend dosage to swallow 2 to 3 drops a day diluted in water, which maybe ok , my only concern is that Iodine kills good and bad bacteria. So my suggestion is to absorb the iodine through your skin so you bypass the digestive tract.

For You Science Geeks

Here is the Scientific Post on Hydrogen it is a little heavy reading….

Hydrogen Medicine Therapy: An Effective and Promising Novel Treatment for Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) Induced by Influenza and Other Viral Infections Diseases?

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Hydrogen, a non-cytotoxic molecule, is one of nature’s most simple elements [1,2]. Recent studies revealed that intraperitoneal injection of hydrogen-rich saline has surprising anti-inflammation, anti-oxidant, anti-apoptosis effects and protected organism against polymicrobial sepsis injury, acute peritonitis injury both by reducing oxidative stress and via decreasing mass proinflammatory responses. It is also well known that the majority of viral -induced tissue damage and discomfort are mainly caused by an inflammatory cytokine storm and oxidative stress rather than by virus itself [3-5]. Studies have shown that suppressing the cytokine storm and reducing oxidative stress can significantly alleviate the symptoms of influenza and other severe viral infections diseases [3-7]. However, none of the studies have been focused on the solution as an anti-virus infection therapy yet. Therefore, we hypothesize that hydrogen-rich solution therapy may be a safe, reliable, and effective treatment for Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) induced by influenza and other viral infectious diseases.

Keywords: Hydrogen Medicine; Anti-Oxidant; Anti-Inflammation; Inflammatory Cytokine Storm; Molecular Hydrogen; Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)

Introduction

Hydrogen is one of nature’s most simple elements. As a gas (H2), it is a colorless, tasteless, odorless, highly flammable diatomic molecule which has been used for fossil fuel processing and ammonia production. In the past decade, molecular hydrogen was considered a surprising agent, which can significantly reduce oxidative stress by selectively reducing hydroxyl radical (•OH) and Peroxynitrite (ONOO-) [1,8-10]. It has recently been revealed that hydrogen can both down-regulate expression of oxidative-related genes and pro-inflammatory cytokine genes directly and indirectly [2-5,11,12]. Oxidative stress and systemic inflammatory response syndrome have been confirmed to play critical roles in tissue and organ damages after polymicrobial sepsis injury, acute peritonitis injury, and peritonitis, which can develop into lethal sepsis with inappropriate treatment [13,14]. In spite of some available antibiotic therapies for the some stages of sepsis, Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) induced by sepsis is still the leading cause of death in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) [15,16]. Recent studies reveal potential protective effects of hydrogen against sepsis and acute peritonitis by decreasing proinflammatory responses, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, which indicate hydrogen medicine as a new no-toxic therapy for bacterial infections [13,14]. Other researchers have also demonstrated that chronic hepatitis B, acute pancreatitis, and sepsis can also be alleviated by treatment of hydrogen medicine [10,14,17]. However, none of the research ever investigated the therapeutic effect of hydrogen gas for MODS induced by influenza and other viral infectious diseases in which inflammation and oxidative stress also play pivotal roles.

Influenza and other severe viral infections

Viruses that cause influenza, Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are emerging as infectious pathogens in this century that are extremely difficult to control effectively, triggering MODS [18-21]. The trends, spread, scope, and development speed of these emerging infectious diseases cannot be estimated, as their routes of transmission and patterns of spread are extensive and different. Diseases induced by these viruses also differ from each other. To be specific, influenza virus can cause flu, whereby the patient has a stuffy nose, cough, sore throat, runny nose, headache, muscle pain and discomfort symptoms [22]. SARS induces diffuse alveolar damage, acute lung injury, leading to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), hypoxemia, and high mortality rate [20,23-25]. Like SARS, MERS, a new type of corona virus, can cause symptoms even with many complications including renal failure [18,19].

The body will be in a state of stress that is caused by the excitement of the sympathetic system after invasion of these pathogens [26,27]. Therefore, oxidative stress increases the release of catecholamine [28]. As auto-oxidation of catecholamine occurs, a large number of free radicals can be produced, accelerating formation of oxidative stress [1]. Meanwhile, oxidative stress activates the complement system, producing a variety of chemotactic substances, such as C3 fragments, leukotrienes etc, which attract and activate neutrophils ultimately [29]. Thus, inflammatory infiltrates develops in many corresponding organs. Furthermore, all these pathogens also stimulate the immune system continuously to launch an inflammatory response flaring out of control [30]. Proinflammatory cytokines are secreted throughout the body; these cytokines also initiate activation of inflammation cells like neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes to produce more proinflammatory cytokines [5,30]. Those cytokines and inflammation cells are reciprocal causation, developing into a cytokine storm(systemic inflammatory response syndrome)[30,31]. The term cytokine storm is used to accommodate the observation that multiple excessive inflammatory causes can induce excessive release of inflammation factors like interleukin-1, interleukin-6, interleukin-12, tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-α, interferon-β, interferon-γ, Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 and interleukin-8 thereby leading to a disease that appears similar to sepsis [30,31]. Importantly, excessive inflammation reactions can also induce acute oxidative stress [2]. Together, both cytokine storm and oxidative stress promote each other and induce MODS, result in high mortality rate [15].

Until now, numerous studies have indicated cytokine storm and oxidative stress are highly associated with the pathological process when getting infected with these viruses [32- 34]. Although cytokine storm and oxidative stress probably try to eliminate theses pathogens, they seem to generate multi-organ damage resulting in lethal clinical symptoms such as extensive pulmonary oedema, alveolar and other tissue haemorrhage, and acute respiratory distress syndrome, etc [6,7,33]. Moreover, when inflammation and oxidative stress damage tissue and organs, healing occurs with fibrosis, aggravating persistent multiple organ dysfunction [30]. Therefore, timely elimination of these mass of cytokines and oxidative stress would presumably protect normal organs from the damaging effects of pathogen infection.

At present, there are some therapies which include vaccines and drugs such as Oseltamivir, Amantadine, Curcumin and Ribavirin, as well as S1P1R for influenza and other viral infections diseases [35-39]. However, due to the highly variable nature of these pathogens, no ideal therapy comprehensively conforms to the criteria of effective, selective, non-toxic, and tolerance-inducing anti-influenza and other viral therapy. Furthermore, studies have showen that oseltamivir can alleviate clinical diseases symptoms and reduce morbidity and mortality [40,41]. However, there are still controversies over the prevention, treatment, and tolerance effects of oseltamivir on influenza virus [22]. Importantly, recent research showed that epistatic interactions between neuraminidase mutations promote the number of oseltamivir-resistant influenza virus populations [42]. Moreover, the clinical application revealed oseltamivir had many adverse effects such as nausea, vomiting, and an increased risk of headaches as well as renal and psychiatric syndromes [22]. Therefore, more attention should be paid to the trade-off between benefits and drawbacks when deciding to choose oseltamivir for a therapy.

Although anti-influenza and other viral therapies have been widely studied in the past decades, no therapy can achieve the desired standards. Medical researchers have been striving hard to identify effective, novel, non-toxic, and convenient compounds to protect patients against influenza and other viral infections.

Hypothesis

Our hypothesis is that hydrogen-rich solution therapy may be a safe, reliable, effective, and specific treatment for MODS induced by influenza and other viral infectious diseases. Given the theory that molecular hydrogen can both significantly down regulate expressions of inflammation-related genes and selectively reduce hydroxyl radical and Peroxynitrite, we have reasons to consider that cytokine storm and oxidative stress can be suppressed when getting infected with avian influenza and other severe viruses [1,11,12,43-45]. Our theory is unique because it not only puts forward a new kind of non-toxic antiviral therapy but also makes hydrogen-based medicine able to heal disease in to the whole body.

Proinflammatory cytokines including interleukin-1β , interleukin-6, Interferon-γ, intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1, inducible nitric oxide synthase, monocyte chemotactic protein 1, chemokine ligand 2 and tumor necrosis factor -α as well as Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen are the main contributors for cytokine storm[30,46-48]. Numerous studies have consistently shown that the contributors were significantly down regulated after applying hydrogen medicine therapy [10,14,26,27,41]. Besides, with the deepening biological mechanism of hydrogen research being developed, scientists gradually found that hydrogen therapy can significantly suppress many pathological signal transduction channels such as NF-κβ, MAPK, Lyn-P, and MEK-1 as well as ERK1/2 pathways and ultimately achieve the goal of recovery from many diseases [44,45,49-53]. In addition, it is worth noting that as H2 is moderate enough, it can selectively react with only hydroxyl radicals (•OH) and peroxynitrite(ONOO-), the main contributors of oxidative stress in vitro and in vivo without disturbing metabolic redox reactions [1]. Last but not least, as H2 is an endogenous substance, the goal of better tissue compatibility than other anti-viral drugs can be achieved [54-56].

Since persistent tissue damage, MODS and high mortality rate are highly associated with oxidative stress and cytokine storm induced by influenza and other severe viral infections hydrogen can significantly reduce oxidative stress and restrain excessive production of cytokines [9,57-60]. We hypothesize that hydrogen can be potentially effective for MODS induced by influenza and other viral infectious diseases. That is to say, hydrogen may be a promising novel anti-influenza and other severe viral infections protectant. We believe work on hydrogen-based medicine for anti-viral therapy in vitro and in vivo should commence as soon as possible. In view of the outbreak, transmission, and widespread nature of these viruses, and the global issues caused by new variation pandemics threats, hydrogen medicine may give us more hope for greater survival and fewer human morbidity and mortality (Figure 1).

Figure 1: H2 as a potential therapy for MODS induced by influenza and other viral infectious diseases

Proposed delivery way of hydrogen

It’s interesting to note that H2 therapy can be administered through inhalation, oral intake of hydrogen-rich water, injection of hydrogen-rich saline, direct diffusion of hydrogen: bath, eye drops and immersion, as well as increase hydrogen in intestine [11,61-69]. Although each delivery way has its own characteristic and advantages, injection of hydrogen-rich saline allows enough amount of hydrogen to have its own antioxidant, anti-inflammation, anti-apoptosis effect at the shortest time [11,70]. Moreover, it is emergency to cure patients with influenza and other severe viral infectious diseases. Therefore, it would be most suitable to choose injection hydrogen-rich saline method as the primary hydrogen therapy for influenza and other severe viral infectious diseases.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81400274), National Student’s Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program(Program Number :201510439107).

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Antony Taylor

Creator of The Ozone Spa.co.uk and H2EPod.com

Natural Health Coach

Author of Your Greatest Wealth

Specialises In Ozone,PEMF, Hydrogen Therapy and Nutrition

How Does Hydrogen Ease Influenza

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Iodine: the Forgotten Weapon
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