So, continuing the saga of free radicals, Dr. Flanagan began to look for ways to get negatively charged hydrogen, or H-, into the body to help it get healthy. He figured out a way to loosely bind an electron to a hydrogen atom forming a hydrogen ion. Then he reduced the microclustered liquid we talked about earlier to powder form and encased the hydrogen ion within a microcluster. And this powder eventually became known as Microhydrin.Now, hold on to this bit of information about negatively charged hydrogen and Microhydrin for a few minutes while you learn about something called "free radicals".
You may already know what they are but just in case you don’t here’s a little bit of info.
Free radicals are molecules inside your body which have lost an electron. That gives them a positive electrical charge or, to put it another way, they are oxidized.
Free radicals are the byproduct of many of your body's natural processes. Since they are positively charged or oxidized, their natural tendency is to try to stabilize themselves and neutralize that charge. They do that by stealing an electron (which is negatively charged) from somewhere else in your body.
Now, remember, this is part of your body's natural functioning in its own natural effort to get healthy. But, when a free radical steals an electron from somewhere, that somewhere is now left without an electron. And now it tries to stabilize itself by stealing an electron from somewhere else. So the process happens again and again and again. And sometimes the electron that is stolen will be from a strand of DNA or from a skin cell or from a liver cell leaving that strand of DNA or that cell damaged.
This process was first discovered back in the 1950s. It’s widely known within the scientific community and it’s been accepted for many years that this is one of the major causes of degenerative disease as you get older.
It would be bad enough if you were only dealing with free radicals that are the natural by-products of your body's functioning in its natural state.
But you aren't.
Think of the stresses you have to deal with today and remember that all of that stress causes more free radicals to appear - many more than your body is supposed to have to deal with.
For a long time now, you’ve been hearing about how good Vitamin C and Vitamin E are for you. These two vitamins, as well as others, are known at antioxidants - they work to stabilize the molecules which have a positive charge - you’ll remember that I said that those molecules were oxidized - and that’s why Vitamins C and E are known as antioxidants. But when Vitamin C gives up an electron to protect a cell, it becomes a free radical and then it needs to steal an electron from somewhere. So maybe the Vitamin E donates an electron to the Vitamin C, but now the Vitamin E is a free radical. And so on and so on.
H- or hydrogen in its ionized form, that is, hydrogen with an extra loosely bound electron is the only electron donor or antioxidant that does not become a free radical. When H- gives up its extra electron to provide stability for a free radical, what is left is not another free radical but an atom of pure hydrogen.
And this brings us right back to Microhydrin. The only way for us to get H- into our systems is by taking it in Microhydrin. Remember the 33 step process Patrick Flanagan used to create HydraCel? Well, he added a few more steps to the process and created Microhydrin.
And if what I've told you so far isn't amazing enough, here's a little more.
The pure hydrogen that’s left over after the extra electron is given to a free radical, has some additional properties that, all by themselves, are a good enough reason to take Microhydrin. The hydrogen that’s now available for your body to use is fuel for the energy producing mechanisms of your body. Remember, your energy comes from oxygen burning hydrogen.
Well, think about what happens when you throw more wood on a fire. It burns hotter and brighter.
That's what happens when you give more fuel to your body's fire.
It burns hotter and brighter.
More fuel means more energy for you to use. More hydrogen means more energy. And this is good, solid core energy - not a stimulant - not something that will buzz you for a few minutes and then go away. This is long term, vital energy.
And if that's not enough for you, here's a little more. Adding more hydrogen to the body, changes the body's pH from fairly acidic to slightly alkaline. The standard American diet of fast foods and carbonated beverages causes your body to be very acidic. This acidic biological terrain is a really good hosting environment for bad bacteria, viruses, molds and yeasts. These bad little bugs just thrive in an acid environment. But they can’t live in an alkaline environment.
And here's a good one for you.
You create an environment for the bad bugs to live in by the way you eat and drink. The bad bugs thrive and take over. You then become very susceptible to colds and flu. You go to the doctor who gives you antibiotics for the colds and flu. Now antibiotics do not know how to distinguish between the bad bugs and the good bugs so they just kill everything - good bacteria right along with the bad. And that leaves you even more susceptible to the bad bugs. So you get colds and flu and you go to the doctor who gives you antibiotics which kill all the bugs in your systems...and so on and so on and so on.
When you look at the way you live, it's amazing that you’re alive at all. And it's amazing that you live to become fairly old. But here's the thing.
Do you want to be old and decrepit?
Or do you want to be old and vibrant?
You do have a choice in the matter, you know.
However, to make the right choice, the life affirming choice, you have to be willing to step outside the system you’ve been brought up with.
That system is really good at fixing what’s broken. But it doesn't know a thing about how to keep you from breaking down in the first place. Medical doctors aren't trained in nutrition. They're not trained in preventive medicine. Insurance companies won't pay for anything that keeps you well. They only pay when you get broken. There is only one way that this system will get fixed so that you can get healthy and that’s if you do it yourself.