Food Suppl Biomater Health. 2021 Mar;1(1):e5 https://doi.org/10.52361/fsbh.2021.1.e5 pISSN 2765-4362·eISSN 2765-4699 Review Article The Medical Uses of Hydrogen Myung-Hee Chung ,1,2 Jai Youl Ro 3 1Department of Pharmacology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Korea 3Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University Natural Sciences Campus, Suwon, Korea Received: Feb 8, 2021 ABSTRACT Accepted: Mar 10, 2021 Correspondence: Hydrogen (H2) has been the focus of industrial interest as a pollution-free fuel. In addition, Myung-Hee Chung, MD, PhD hydrogen is also a hot topic in medicine. Recently, animal and human experiments have Department of Pharmacology, Seoul National shown that hydrogen is effective in treating various diseases, raising the possibility of University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Korea. developing hydrogen as a new therapeutic agent. The therapeutic effect of hydrogen is due E-mail:
[email protected] to its antioxidant action to remove reactive oxygen species (ROS) effectively. Currently, it is known that ROS is involved in almost all diseases that afflict mankind. The therapeutic effect © 2021 Health Supplements Future Forum of hydrogen was reported first by Ohsawa and colleagues in 2007. They induced brain injury This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons in rats by ischemia-reperfusion and found that inhalation of hydrogen gas (2%) markedly Attribution Non-Commercial