Consumption of water containing a high
concentration of molecular hydrogen reduces
oxidative stress and disease activity in patients
with rheumatoid arthritis: an open-label pilot
study
Toru Ishibashi1*, Bunpei Sato2
, Mariko Rikitake1
, Tomoki Seo2
, Ryosuke Kurokawa2
, Yuichi Hara1
, Yuji Naritomi1
,
Hiroshi Hara1 and Tetsuhiko Nagao3

* Correspondence: toruishi@haradoi-hospital.com 1
Haradoi Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery,
6-40-8 Aoba, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 813-8588, Japan
Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
MEDICAL GAS
RESEARCH
© 2012 Ishibashi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

doi:10.1186/2045-9912-2-27
Cite this article as: Ishibashi et al.: Consumption of water containing a high concentration of molecular hydrogen reduces oxidative stress and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an open-label pilot study. Medical Gas Research 2012 2:27.