In 2015, after years of puzzling, disabling pain and muscle weakness, Irene Phillips, an osteopath who practices in Worcester Park near London in the UK, was diagnosed with central core disease, a very rare condition related to muscular dystrophy.
She was told that she would be in a wheelchair eventually, and she had handrails installed in her house and kept rollator walkers on both floors to assist her movement. That same year, however, Phillips met a practitioner named Jan Beute from Ireland who introduced her to hydrogen water and made her a machine so she could produce her own, using a powder, at home.
“Now, my symptoms are totally reversed. I have no pain at all,” says Phillips. She purchased her own hydrogen device, which can deliver gas or water,…