Can breathing in hydrogen gas cure all diseases?
2024-08-26
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Recently, a health care and recuperation model with "hydrogen" as the core has quietly emerged in many places in China. Places such as "Hydrogen and Oxygen Experience Center", "Hydrogen and Oxygen Bar" and "Hydrogen and Oxygen Club" have become places where many elderly people must check in every morning.
The "cure-all" scam is back
The reporter found that some hydrogen and oxygen experience centers on the market claim that breathing in hydrogen can fight tumors, anti-aging, and solve various difficult and complicated diseases.
A store called Weston Hydrogen and Oxygen Experience Center in Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province sells hydrogen showers, hydrogen water cups, hydrogen-rich water machines and other products, and a hydrogen and oxygen machine is priced at 17,999 yuan.
The reporter followed the staff to the experience area on the second floor, where a lecturer was promoting the magical effects of the hydrogen-oxygen machine to a dozen elderly people: it can not only purify the blood and restore the elasticity of blood vessel walls, but also prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
In the promotional video played on site, so-called experts claimed that drinking hydrogen water can prevent cell damage and can overcome heart and brain diseases, joint diseases, rheumatism, gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases and allergic diseases. Sales staff even claimed that inhaling hydrogen and drinking hydrogen water can effectively control the progression of cancer.
While the elderly people were experiencing hydrogen inhalation, the staff also told them "successful" cases of hydrogen inhalation.
All the preparations made by the sales staff were to get the elderly to buy the hydrogen-oxygen machine. To verify the miraculous therapeutic effect of hydrogen, the sales staff conducted an experiment on site using a "hydrogen concentration determination liquid". When using this reagent, if there is hydrogen in the water, the water will change from blue to transparent after adding the reagent; if there is no hydrogen, the water will remain blue.
Such test results can only prove that the water contains hydrogen, but cannot prove that hydrogen has any connection with the treatment of diseases. However, the salesperson said that this is a manifestation of the miraculous antioxidant effect of hydrogen-rich water.
The person in charge of the Weston Experience Center told reporters that he has several branches. In more than a year, he has sold more than 300 hydrogen-oxygen machines, with a profit of 5,000 yuan for each hydrogen-oxygen machine. He easily earned 1.5 million yuan this year, just like bending down to pick up money.
During the conversation, he also revealed to reporters that their marketing tactics have fixed routines, which mainly revolve around "smallest molecules, no side effects, anti-inflammatory, selective antioxidant, and cell repair". They share user experiences and effects at critical moments, and those users who feel there is no effect are not allowed to share.
Propaganda targets the wallets of the elderly
In the "De Hydrogen" hydrogen and oxygen experience store in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, a sign reads "Free experience of hydrogen breathing club". The reporter saw that the experiencers in the store were all elderly people, and the "health lecturer" was also preaching the successful cases of "hydrogen inhalation" to treat diseases.
The sales staff here said that there was an elderly man who had suffered a cerebral infarction. After inhaling hydrogen for a period of time, he could walk smoothly and speak clearly, and he even complained that this store was open too late.
When the reporter questioned the efficacy of the hydrogen inhalation machine, the "health lecturer" at the experience center told the reporter that everyone's physique is different, and the time it takes for hydrogen inhalation to take effect is naturally different. Just a few short experiences are far from enough. Only by buying a hydrogen inhalation machine and taking it home and inhaling it every day can you benefit from it for life. In fact, this is all their rhetoric.
The staff here told reporters that their experience center is open all year round, starting at 7 a.m., with six free hydrogen inhalation experience activities every day. The vast majority of those who come for the free experience are elderly people with chronic underlying diseases and weak awareness of prevention.
At the door of another health experience store in Shijiazhuang called Hydrogen Hui Hydrogen and Oxygen, there is also a sign that says "Free Hydrogen Inhalation Trial".
The price of hydrogen-oxygen machines in the store ranges from 15,000 yuan to 26,000 yuan. The hydrogen-oxygen machines here are not only for sale, but also for rent, and even hydrogen absorption cards can be applied for. Such a flexible and changeable business model seems to provide choices for the elderly, but in fact it is trying every means to make the elderly willingly pay out their pensions.
On the poster of this hydrogen-oxygen health experience center, the treatment range of "drinking hydrogen water, inhaling hydrogen gas" actually covers almost all diseases.
The reporter found out through the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration that hydrogen-oxygen machines are indeed classified as Class III medical devices, but currently only one hydrogen-oxygen nebulizer has obtained certification, and no relevant certification and registration information has been found for other brands of hydrogen-oxygen machines on the market.
Many laws in my country have clear provisions on product promotion:
Reporters investigate hydrogen-oxygen machine source manufacturers
Shenzhen Westerton Company is an enterprise that has been engaged in the production and sales of hydrogen-oxygen machines for many years. Mr. Lin, the sales manager, told reporters that "hydrogen medical care" currently belongs to the category of the big health industry. The hydrogen-oxygen experience center project currently has little market competition and the product profits are extremely high.
In terms of product sales strategy, the sales director told the reporter that their company provides complete training and teaching materials support for its franchisees. The headquarters regularly sends professional lecturers to franchise stores to give lectures. The lecturers are divided into three categories, A, B, and C, and each has its own role in promoting sales. The target customers for product sales are clearly people aged 40 to 60.
In the eyes of Mr. Lin, selling machines is easy, and there are many skills involved, and it is especially important to know the right dish for the right person. When seeing a middle-aged couple coming together, he would stir up trouble by saying that the man cannot make the decision, which would stimulate the man to pay with a card for the sake of face. When seeing a young girl who loves beauty, he would say that drinking hydrogen-rich water can beautify and lose weight.
As the conversation deepened, Mr. Lin also admitted to the reporter that "hydrogen medicine" is actually just a gimmick, and they simply do not have the strength to develop medical devices.
The reporter also came to Shenzhen Aoshidun Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. in Longgang District, Shenzhen. The series of hydrogen and oxygen products they produce include hydrogen water cups, hydrogen absorption machines, hydrogen-rich water machines and hydrogen bath machines.
In the company's product exhibition hall, the reporter saw that the appearance of these hydrogen generators and hydrogen-rich water machines is very similar to that of ordinary water dispensers, and the price of most models is over 10,000 yuan. Manager Yang told reporters that in terms of cost, the larger the gas flow of the hydrogen-oxygen machine, the higher the price. The hydrogen-oxygen machine market is currently in a mess, and there is no standard for sales price. Manager Yang admitted that the market guidance price of their products is generally divided into three ranges of 19,800 yuan, 15,800 yuan, and 11,800 yuan, while the cost is only 2,000 yuan to more than 3,000 yuan. When the reporter asked whether the hydrogen-oxygen machine and hydrogen-rich water machine produced by their company really have magical effects, the company's Manager Yang actually said that he himself couldn't explain it clearly.
The reporter found that many businesses are setting up WeChat groups to avoid market supervision. Through the Internet, they produce and disseminate a large number of promotional videos, articles, papers and other materials to endorse their products. Businesses also organize the elderly to exchange the so-called benefits and experiences of inhaling hydrogen and drinking hydrogen water in the group from time to time. Some offline stores have even quietly moved online, and their sales methods are more covert.
We hope that the regulatory authorities will attach great importance to such issues and increase management efforts. The happy lives of hundreds of millions of elderly people deserve the concerted efforts of the whole society.
Comprehensive: CCTV.com, CCTV Finance
Source: Aurora News Northeast Network
