Paul Saladino· MD
So so it's fine to drink before after during a workout.
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So so it's fine to drink before after during a workout.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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But already there's 20 30 studies, you know, I' I've published maybe three, five studies or something on exercise performance. There's a systemic systematic review made analysis uh specifically on hydrogen water showing that yeah, it does appear from the data so far that hydrogen does help improve um endurance, you know, like uh reduces fatigue and so on.
I think most important thing is just consistency. Yeah. The more the drinking it consistently is going to be the is going to be the most important and then probably doing a preworkout. Um because there might be some acute effects of hydrogen the way it affects like the sympathetics parasympathetic nervous activity. Um just kind of a pre-treatment with modulating oxidative stress inflammation. Prepare for an oncoming assault of a bunch of free radicals that are being produced. Yeah. So I kind of like the idea of you know kind of a pre-treatment.