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Hydrogen water has been gaining traction in wellness circles for years, embraced by biohackers, athletes and longevity lovers chasing additional well being advantages in each sip.
Now, as an alternative of stocking up on cans and pouches, followers could make it themselves utilizing a wise water bottle that infuses common H2O with molecular hydrogen fuel in minutes — even when the price isn’t precisely refreshing.
Priced at $299.99, the most recent Echo Flask made a splash on the 2026 Client Electronics Present in Las Vegas this month, drawing crowds to the modern, rechargeable system.
It’s an upgraded model of Echo Water’s earlier bottle, which has been endorsed by celebrities together with musician Pharrell Williams, boxer Jake Paul and human biologist Gary Brecka.
The high-tech water bottle is Wi-Fi enabled, syncing with a free companion app that allows you to set hydration targets and observe your progress in actual time. Its battery lasts for about 5 to seven hydrogen technology cycles on a single cost.
Whereas staying hydrated is important, proponents say the added hydrogen takes the advantages of ingesting water a step additional, boosting power, dashing restoration, enhancing efficiency and even slowing the ageing course of.
“The fuel is essential as a result of it could possibly penetrate your mobile layer, the place common water can’t,” defined Alex Koritz, head of company communications at Echo Water. He famous that the know-how used to create hydrogen-rich water within the flask was initially developed by NASA scientists.
I’ve been utilizing the Echo Flask for the previous week, and it’s too quickly to inform whether or not the sensible bottle delivers on its additional well being advantages. Medical research usually present noticeable results from hydrogen water solely after 4 to 12 weeks of normal use.
Nonetheless, the Echo Flask’s built-in reminders on its contact display show nudging me to drink have truly helped me meet my hydration objectives over the previous few days — one thing this coffee-and-juice lover has lengthy struggled with.
And I’m optimistic sufficient to maintain going. In any case, a rising physique of analysis, together with greater than 200 human research, suggests hydrogen water could assist cut back oxidative stress within the physique.
This imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants can harm cells and tissues, triggering power irritation and harming DNA and proteins.
Over time, it’s believed to speed up ageing and contribute to power diseases resembling Alzheimer’s, coronary heart illness, arthritis, diabetes and even most cancers.
By countering oxidative stress, hydrogen water could assist cut back irritation, fatigue and metabolic points, whereas doubtlessly boosting endurance, mind perform, intestine well being, cardiovascular well being and even the looks of pores and skin.
For folks present process therapies like radiation remedy, research counsel that six weeks of hydrogen-rich water can ease negative effects resembling nausea, complications and hair loss. One examine of most cancers sufferers additionally reported improved temper and lowered anxiousness.
It’s no shock the fashionable beverage has been well-liked in Asia for many years, with curiosity rising in North America and Europe lately.
In Japan, folks have been ingesting it since at the very least the Nineteen Sixties and likewise use it in different codecs for well being functions, together with baths for pores and skin complexion and saline IVs to deal with infections.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, a nutritionist and dermatologist who sells his personal hydrogen-rich water and isn’t affiliated with Echo, beforehand advised The Put up that the beverage is “going to vary the world.”
“If we are able to get this nation ingesting hydrogen water frequently, we might decrease our well being care prices by a 3rd,” he stated.
Hydrogen water is mostly acknowledged as protected (GRAS) by the FDA, which means it’s authorized for human consumption and never recognized to trigger hurt.
Nevertheless, specialists warning that very excessive consumption may cause delicate digestive points, resembling bloating or unfastened stools, so it’s finest to introduce it progressively.
