Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms
<b>Background</b>: Hydrogen-rich water (HRW) has garnered significant interest within the sports and exercise science community due to its selective antioxidant properties. Despite its potential benefits, comprehensive reviews specifically addressing its effects on athletic performance a...
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| description | <b>Background</b>: Hydrogen-rich water (HRW) has garnered significant interest within the sports and exercise science community due to its selective antioxidant properties. Despite its potential benefits, comprehensive reviews specifically addressing its effects on athletic performance are limited. This review aims to assess the impact of HRW on sports performance and explore the underlying molecular biological mechanisms, with the goal of elucidating how HRW might enhance athletic performance. <b>Methods</b>: This review synthesizes research on HRW by examining articles published between 1980 and April 2024 in databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science. <b>Results</b>: It highlights HRW’s effects on various aspects of athletic performance, including endurance, strength, sprint times, lunge movements, countermovement jump height, and time to exhaustion. While the precise mechanisms by which HRW affects athletic performance remain unclear, this review investigates its general molecular biological mechanisms beyond the specific context of sports. This provides a theoretical foundation for future research aimed at understanding how HRW can enhance athletic performance. HRW targets the harmful reactive oxygen and nitrogen species produced during intense exercise, thereby reducing oxidative stress—a critical factor in muscle fatigue, inflammation, and diminished athletic performance. HRW helps to scavenge hydroxyl radicals and peroxynitrite, regulate antioxidant enzymes, mitigate lipid peroxidation, reduce inflammation, protect against mitochondrial dysfunction, and modulate cellular signaling pathways. <b>Conclusions</b>: In summary, while a few studies have indicated that HRW may not produce significant beneficial effects, the majority of research supports the conclusion that HRW may enhance athletic performance across various sports. The potential mechanisms underlying these benefits are thought to involve HRW’s role as a selective antioxidant, its impact on oxidative stress, and its regulation of redox homeostasis. However, the specific molecular biological mechanisms through which HRW improves athletic performance remain to be fully elucidated. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-634eeb5c0ccf40a895f69d8077fa6a012025-08-20T02:10:57ZengMDPI AGMetabolites2218-19892024-10-01141053710.3390/metabo14100537Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and MechanismsQiaorui Zhou0Huixin Li1Ye Zhang2Yirui Zhao3Can Wang4Chang Liu5College of Food Science & Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Sport Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, ChinaSport Coaching College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, ChinaChina Ice and Snow Sports College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCollege of Food Science & Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Sport Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China<b>Background</b>: Hydrogen-rich water (HRW) has garnered significant interest within the sports and exercise science community due to its selective antioxidant properties. Despite its potential benefits, comprehensive reviews specifically addressing its effects on athletic performance are limited. This review aims to assess the impact of HRW on sports performance and explore the underlying molecular biological mechanisms, with the goal of elucidating how HRW might enhance athletic performance. <b>Methods</b>: This review synthesizes research on HRW by examining articles published between 1980 and April 2024 in databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science. <b>Results</b>: It highlights HRW’s effects on various aspects of athletic performance, including endurance, strength, sprint times, lunge movements, countermovement jump height, and time to exhaustion. While the precise mechanisms by which HRW affects athletic performance remain unclear, this review investigates its general molecular biological mechanisms beyond the specific context of sports. This provides a theoretical foundation for future research aimed at understanding how HRW can enhance athletic performance. HRW targets the harmful reactive oxygen and nitrogen species produced during intense exercise, thereby reducing oxidative stress—a critical factor in muscle fatigue, inflammation, and diminished athletic performance. HRW helps to scavenge hydroxyl radicals and peroxynitrite, regulate antioxidant enzymes, mitigate lipid peroxidation, reduce inflammation, protect against mitochondrial dysfunction, and modulate cellular signaling pathways. <b>Conclusions</b>: In summary, while a few studies have indicated that HRW may not produce significant beneficial effects, the majority of research supports the conclusion that HRW may enhance athletic performance across various sports. The potential mechanisms underlying these benefits are thought to involve HRW’s role as a selective antioxidant, its impact on oxidative stress, and its regulation of redox homeostasis. However, the specific molecular biological mechanisms through which HRW improves athletic performance remain to be fully elucidated.https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/14/10/537hydrogen-rich waterathletic performanceoxidative stressredox homeostasisexercise physiology |
| spellingShingle | Qiaorui Zhou Huixin Li Ye Zhang Yirui Zhao Can Wang Chang Liu Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms Metabolites hydrogen-rich water athletic performance oxidative stress redox homeostasis exercise physiology |
| title | Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms |
| title_full | Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms |
| title_fullStr | Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms |
| title_short | Hydrogen-Rich Water to Enhance Exercise Performance: A Review of Effects and Mechanisms |
| title_sort | hydrogen rich water to enhance exercise performance a review of effects and mechanisms |
| topic | hydrogen-rich water athletic performance oxidative stress redox homeostasis exercise physiology |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/14/10/537 |
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