Ending Chronic Disease

Hydrogen is one of the most powerful and overlooked elements your body needs to function at its best. In this episode, Dr. Paul Barattiero dives into the healing potential of hydrogen water – how it supports cellular health, reduces chronic inflammation, and could be the missing link in your wellness journey. Backed by decades of research, hydrogen water is emerging as a simple yet profound tool for natural healing. This conversation unpacks the science and offers practical ways to integrate it into your daily life for lasting wellness.

Highlights:

02:52 – A Personal Mission to Heal

Dr. Paul Barattiero shares how his journey into hydrogen water began with a deeply personal goal—helping his wife overcome chronic inflammation, thyroid imbalances, and reproductive health issues.

07:22 – The Hidden Dangers in Our Water

Most U.S. water safety standards date back to the 1960s, leaving today’s water supply filled with unregulated chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and toxins that quietly undermine our health.

13:34 – Why Hydrogen Matters More Than You Think

Hydrogen is vital for optimal body function, yet poor gut health—affecting over 90% of people—prevents the natural production of this critical molecule, contributing to chronic conditions.

18:42 – Real Stories, Real Results

From deeper sleep to glowing skin, less joint pain, and a noticeable energy boost, users are experiencing fast, powerful benefits after incorporating hydrogen water into their routine.

23:58 – Healing Starts in the Gut

Hydrogen water helps restore electrical balance in the gut, encouraging the growth of beneficial anaerobic bacteria—key to better digestion, stronger immunity, and improved food tolerance.

28:28 – A Healthier Future for Kids

Children benefit too. Hydrogen water helps counter environmental toxins, supports natural energy, and promotes restful sleep—without the crash from sugar or caffeine.

About the Guest: 

Paul Barattiero is a distinguished figure in the health and wellness industry, renowned for his pioneering work in molecular hydrogen therapy. With over 25 years of experience, he has dedicated his career to advancing natural health solutions and innovative technologies. His research and product innovations have positioned him as a leader in the field of hydrogen water and its potential to transform health and wellness.

Website: https://echowater.com/

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: What I want and hope people understand is that hydrogen is critical to the function of your body on a daily basis, and without hydrogen, your body is not functioning at efficiency.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Hi everyone. This is Dr. Fab Mancini, and I'm super excited to be with you today, because, as you know, I'm on a mission. I'm on a mission to decrease. I'm on a mission to reverse. I'm on a mission to prevent chronic disease. As a doctor of chiropractic, I spent the last 38 years of my life really working on this space of wellness and holistic natural sciences, because I am convinced that we are just living the wrong paradigm. We are trying so hard to manage symptoms through primarily pharmaceuticals, rather to spending 80 or 90% of our times dealing with the root cause of our disease processes. That is really what I have found to be the answer towards not only reversing chronic disease, but more importantly, living a healthy lifestyle, living to longevity, living your optimum potential in when it comes to your health. Well, today I wanted to invite one of my dear friends, a mentor, somebody that has been instrumental in helping me not only understand these mechanisms and processes of how the body heals naturally, but the topic that I wanted to bring him in today is the topic of hydrogen water. I know we hear a lot of it in social media, we hear a lot of it in YouTube. We hear a lot of it in the news, but hydrogen water is one of the things that you will learn today is, in my opinion, one of the biggest secrets that I have found in the marketplace of healthcare that have yet to be utilized to the potential that it can and that is the amazing Dr Paul. Barrio taro Paul, it was so great to see you again. Thanks so much for making the time.

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: Absolutely. It's my honor. As you know, I'm grateful for everything we do together.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know, I've been blessed because I've been in a lot of stages with you, attending one of your classes. You're one of the most exceptional speakers I have ever seen. Thank you. You have a way of bringing information in a practical way, but you also have all the science behind it, but you have a tremendous amount of passion now. You have dedicated a big portion of your life towards researching molecular hydrogen and hydrogen water. You become the leading expert in this topic worldwide. Tell me a little bit about what was it? What was the defining moment that made you realize that perhaps hydrogen water could be the answer to many of the disease processes that we're seeing out there.

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: It all started 20 years ago with my wife. She was sick, she had chronic inflammation, she had thyroid issues, she had anemia, she had short term memory issues, she had gynecological issues. When she was on her menstrual cycle, she'd be almost bed bound for a week every month. And so it was me who's never had any health issues, watching her, and it caused me to have compassion. It caused me to say, Wow, what if that was me? What if I had that going on in my life every day? What would life be like for me? And it caused me to have compassion for her, and it caused me to want to help her, because I love her, I like her. You know, not everybody likes maybe their spouse, but I do. I love her and like her, and she's the greatest person on earth to me. So that was really my cause of action, or my passion was to help her. And so echo water is the result of helping her.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know, and I met your lovely wife, and I've been to your home, and I have seen in action, what a rigorous process you guys have when you leave your message. I mean, that couldn't turn anywhere in your office or in your home where hydrogen water was not right there for everyone, all your employees, your kids, everybody to enjoy. So let's talk a little bit about this topic of hydrogen water, because that's really I mean, I know you and I can talk about many different topics, but this one in particular, you were one of the key individuals in many years ago that really showed me the importance of hydrogen water. For years. You know, we have talked about purifying our water, and we know right now, especially, there's a lot of discussion out in the public regarding the toxicity levels of our water. So let's start there, because I don't think a lot of people understand that what we drink, especially tap water, and especially in some of the areas out in the nation and even some countries, because we may have some viewers that are coming from international countries. Is Tell me a little bit about what is it that you have seen in today's world as the biggest problem when it comes to toxicity within our water

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: Well, thank you. And and it you're right, it's not. I, I've been in this process for 20 years, but echo as a brand, is 16 years old, and so people need to understand that it's not going away. We're just increasing, increasing increasing awareness, and then we're increasing how many people in the world are utilizing echo water, I can tell you, without letting the cat out of the bag. I We just shipped 10 flasks to one of the top NFL teams in the country, and that makes our third NFL team that is now using our water for their players. And so it's very, very exciting. We have NBA, we have golfers, we have everybody. You can imagine. Why are they doing this? Why? Why? Why? And the reality. This. And first, I want people to understand, when you were born, your body created hydrogen gas naturally, if, and here's the big if, if your gut was working properly. We used to say all babies were born with a gut that was working properly, but that's not the case anymore. Today we have babies that are born with a gut that's disrupted because of chemicals in their sweet mom that doesn't even know it was harming the child. And so we can come out of the womb without proper immune function. We can come out of the womb without a properly functioning intestinal tract. So let's pretend that we were all perfect and our guts were working correctly. We would produce hydrogen gas naturally, and we would not have chronic disease. We would not have inflammatory response constantly. We would not have food allergies. We would not have autoimmune we would not have all kinds of things, you know, rheumatoid arthritis, brain issues, energy issues, all the things that we're suffering from every day we would not have because hydrogen would be managing oxidative stress and inflammation. That's the primary thing that hydrogen does is it manages oxidation, especially oxidative stress, and then chronic inflammation. Why do I mention that first? Because the combination of oxidative stress and chronic inflammation is disease that's the leading cause of disease and pain in the body and everything else so as we all, and it's estimated, over 90% of the population, have a gut issue. That means you're not producing hydrogen the way you're designed to, and so you're going to have issues. You're going to because you don't have hydrogen. And people that are skeptical, I love that, but let's talk about something really simple for you to understand. Everyone knows there's digestive issues. If you don't, we've been living under a rock, but we know there's digestive issues. We know there's gluten and dairy intolerance. We know that if you don't know that, I don't know where they've been, but what causes that? Well, that's improper digestion. And so what is in our stomach that causes us to begin a digestion process? It's stomach acid, right? So what is stomach acid? We know it's hydrochloric acid, but it what are the letters HCL stand for that H is hydrogen, so you can't even make stomach acid without hydrogen gas. And therefore we begin to understand that something as simple as stomach acid, you can't even have it without hydrogen. Now we can start to think of all the neurologic issues. We can start to think of mitochondrial function. We can think talk about ATP production. We can talk about cholesterol. We can talk about blood pressure. We can talk about diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, whatever you want to talk about. There are studies on it, but just coming from a basic thing is just your stomach acid, you can't even have without hydrogen. So what I want and hope people understand is that hydrogen is critical to the function of your body on a daily basis, and without hydrogen, your body is not functioning at efficiency.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know it's interesting, because when you hear one of your lectures, and you have this incredible slides that you explained the science, the bio biology, the physiology of it all it makes us I mean, I went to graduate school. I've taken hundreds and hundreds of continuing education courses, you know, I've studied acupuncture, I've studied energy medicine. I've studied and when I discover this value of hydrogen, water, especially water, something that we drink every, every day. You know, why are we not leveraging something that is a natural process, something that we do daily, but then try to add the component that can really allow our bodies to function? But you've often said to me and to many other people that follow you, and that not all hydrogen water is created equal. I know you've said that again and again, so, but for those of us out there that may be listening and watching this right now, what is it that we should look for when it comes to choosing the right hydrogen water technology, or potentially products. Because, you know, some of us are on the go, like me and you we travel on a weekly basis, lecturing all over the world. You have other people that have a family of five or four, and they're trying to manage their household. You know, water exposure is in so many ways. But what is it that we. You look for when it comes to a hydrogen water, either product or particularly technology that is out there?

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: That's a great question, because once Joe Rogan talked about echo water, it exploded knowledge, and it exploded us, because he uses our water system. And all of a sudden, all these products I call scam products came from China. Not that all products from China are scam, but in the hydrogen bottle world, 95% are all scam products. And what do I mean by that? If you are seeing bubbles come up, that doesn't mean it's hydrogen, even though they're selling you that bottle saying it's hydrogen, you have to understand the technology being used. If it is an electrolysis based product, it is going to create chlorine, it's going to create ozone, it's going to not create any hydrogen. If you're using clean water. So it's a catch 22 here you buying this product that if you put tap water in it, or you even put filtered water with minerals, it will produce a small amount of hydrogen, but it will produce a lot of chlorine. If you put distilled or reverse osmosis or purified water, it won't produce anything, and so it's a waste of money. That's that is any bottle that is electrolysis based our technology is a proton exchange membrane, a proprietary proton exchange membrane, which means we can use distilled water, we can use reverse osmosis, we can use deionized we can use whatever water you want to put in it, and we're still going to produce six parts per million, eight parts per million, of hydrogen gas. The we have the highest performing hydrogen products in the world. We're the original company, and so people are getting scammed with these $50 $60 $100 bottles. I will tell you that we can't even produce and get it into our warehouse, the flask that you showed for $60 we can't even do it, and we don't manufacture in China. By the way, we manufacture our products in Philippines and South Korea. So understand that our flask isn't a Chinese made product. It is a Philippines and we control it. We designed it. That's what people need to understand. But the easiest way to know if you have a true hydrogen product is you should only purchase something that has certification from IHSA, the International hydrogen Standards Association out of Japan. And the only laboratory in the US that is given the rights to be able to test for the IHSA standards is h2 analytics in Las Vegas, Nevada, and they can give a certification that you have met the IHSA standards, we were the first company in the world to have IHSA certification in hydrogen. And we continue to have all of our products. You will not find many products. There's no other hydrogen machine in the world that has met the certification except for ours, and there's only a couple other bottles that have actually met that certification. So that's your first true way to know is if they cannot on they can display that logo that they have met the IHSA certification. You should never buy that product, because it's a scam, non hydrogen product.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: I know that the in your clinical world, world, especially with all of the individual experiences that you've had with so many people that you have worked with in the past, what are some of the surprising but also consisting health transformations that you see on a regular basis, people report that hydrogen water has actually created in their lives. Anything that comes to mind that are consistent, just when people start drinking hydrogen water, these are the things that people are reporting back.

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: Yeah, every day. I I just had a podcast today with an amazing woman. Her name is Diane Gilman. She's known as the jean queen, and I literally was on her podcast today. She's 79 years old. She has a podcast for being able to be healthy while you're getting old, right? And and so she just got our flask, and she said, Paul, I haven't been able to sleep in years. I the first day I drank the water, I slept like I haven't slept in years. She goes, I'm dealing with joint pain and inflammation every day of my life, and that went away. She said, I feel energy. See my skin looks different. So all these kind of things are gonna feed me. The first things that people notice when they drink the water right away is the fact that their body will function properly, their skin will look better, their hair, their pain, all of that.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, I love it, because that is one of the biggest challenges out there, as you know that has caused a lot of the chronic diseases, and I think people need to understand that. The way that you explain it is that the hydrogen water is going to impact not just one system in the body, but pretty much every system in the body. So now I know you mentioned a little bit earlier, but I want to, I want you to go a little deeper, because I think this is an important question, and that is, you talked about the gut related disorders that people are having, and we talk about how hydrogen, water supports the microbiome of the of the body and and all of this has implication in mood, immunity, brain function. Tell us a little bit more about the mechanism of how is it that it supports a microbiome, and what are the benefits by doing that on a regular basis, when you actually drink the hydrogen water

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: Well, when it comes to the microbiome, we're really talking about bacteria, right? We have anaerobic and we have aerobic, and we should have 96 to 99% of the bacteria should be anaerobic, and only one to 4% should be aerobic. Unfortunately, these bacteria require an environment to live in, and it is typically an electrical environment. And so when we have overuse of antibiotics, or we have different chemicals, like pesticides, that come into our gut, it disrupts that electrical potential, and so those bacteria no longer have a home. And so we'll lose the ability to have anaerobic microflora unless we have a negative electrical potential. If we have a positive electrical potential, which is what will happen when we have these disturbances, aerobic bacteria will thrive, but anaerobic will not well. Automatically. With aerobic bacteria, we'll have sugar and carb cravings, and we'll have anxiety and depression. If we have anaerobic then we're going to crave fatty acids and fiber, very different food. So first of all, our cravings come from the bacteria in our gut, not from ourselves. So you can blame the bacteria, not yourself. The other thing that we need to understand is hydrogen within an hour of drinking and hydrogen water, when hydrogen gas gets into the intestinal tract, it will start to return the biome to its natural state, which is a negative electrical potential. There are studies out there showing that anaerobes, strict anaerobes, must have an environment that is a negative 300 to a negative 400 millivolts hydrogen water will facilitate that and so within. And this is no guarantee and not a promise for anyone, but typically people that have food allergies or gluten and dairy intolerance or other issues, they say that within a couple weeks, they're starting to be able to eat those foods without having inflammatory responses. So that's really incredible. But again, we need to understand that hydrogen neutralizes hydroxyl radicals, Peri what was called peroxynitrites. It also is a ros Scavenger. For those of you eggheads, like we are, who understand what I'm saying when I say these big words, but, but the reality is, hydrogen will change the landscape of your gut so that the bacteria that's supposed to be there can live there again, and that's what's critical for immune function. 70% of your immune function is tied to the bacteria in your gut, and so as we restore the gut, not only can you eat foods, but you can have an immune function that's proper.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: And you know that what's interesting is that I know a lot of people, and for those of you that may be that this may be a little above your understanding, just know that most of us really understand that most of the time, people are struggling with their digestive issues. Whether you feel upset stomach, sometimes you refer to it as weakness and tiredness, and you talk about pain, you talk about potentially a feeling that just doesn't feel quite right. But in closing, Paul, let's talk a little bit about if you could just communicate one thing to every family member, because, as you know, when we started adding the hydrogen water in our bottles, and then we started buying the systems for our homes, and, you know, like we travel everywhere with hydrogen water, we realized that we're talking about not just ourselves, but our families. And I think, as a parent, all of us has a responsibility to ensure that our. Children have the best possible chance to be healthy. This is one of the things that I'm very committed to, is to educate parents as to creative ways that they can actually begin to create the environment that their children will have the best possible chance later on. Because, as you know, chronic disease is rampant among children. Many of these. We never saw them in children. We only saw them in adults, and usually after 60 or 70 years old. Now we're seeing that over, I think it's over 30% over 40% of all children have some kind of chronic disease. It's ridiculous. I mean, what happened to our healthy children. But if you have one thing to communicate to us about understanding the value of hydrogen water and the potential, not only of prevention, but also maintaining a healthy body that is being completely overlooked by mainstream medicine, what would it be?

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: Well, it would be simply getting that hydrogen into the body will reverse the negative issues that are happening from food, from air, from stress. We literally have three ways the toxins get into our body, food, breath and lotions and creams that we put on our skin. So if we are taking in contaminants, which we are and for children, I still remember the show Dr Oz did a show like 15 years ago, where he tested the urine of middle schoolers and they had, on average, 27 pesticides in their urine. He changed them all to an organic diet, and within three days, there were zero pesticides in their urine. And so it really is, imagine your children having 27 chemicals that are killing bugs in the fields. Of course, they're going to kill the bugs in your gut. And so with pesticides in our gut, we are having a problem. Well, guess what? Hydrogen can outperform growing bacteria faster than pesticides can kill them. And so that's what it is. It's going to be a lifestyle change of drinking hydrogen water so that you can have proper health. And that's that's what it is, and that's going to facilitate better sleep, which is going to be one of the greatest things for children and growth, is to have them sleeping properly, having all the stresses of the day gone through sleep and repair, also having energy. So many people talk about the fact that they do not have sustainable energy during the day, and so there's sugar and carb loading. They're taking all these drinks that have caffeine in them, and they're doing all kinds of stimulants just to be able to live what we would consider a normal life, not even an extraordinary life, just a normal life. Hydrogen can do that. There was even a study coffee versus hydrogen water and hydrogen water one by 10% more energy increase. So all I can say, and I don't want this to sound like a commercial, but all I can say is, you need to be drinking hydrogen water every day so that you can reverse all the issues that you don't even know you're doing to your body. And trust me, you will notice a difference. It doesn't take six months. It's the first day that you'll start noticing differences.

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Dr. Paul Barattiero: We need to leave with there's, there's the easiest way to get echo water into your life. Is the flask that fab showed earlier, right here, right? And so this is great. This is something you'll have for five years, 10 years, whatever you're going to use it for. But we also just introduced, for those of you that have gut issues, we did just introduce a drink that is a prebiotic. There's three prebiotics as well as hydrogen, and it tastes like crisp apple. So it's a beautiful flavor stick pack. You can try that as well. We actually have a bundle right now going on. Where, if you purchase one of these, you'll get two months supply of the prebiotic hydrogen drink. And if you use fabs code, you'll get 10. You'll get additional percentage off of the already great bundle price. That's going to be the best way you can try it, if you're skeptical and it's gonna really change your life. So that's, that's what I would recommend.

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Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you've heard it right here. I want you to click on this link. I want you to learn. I want you to read some of the studies, because, believe me, that will actually tell you the story better than anything. And, more importantly, start using hydrogen water every single day, I can tell you from personal experience and the one of my family, one of the best decisions, one of the best bio hacks, by far that we have used over the last few years. And and really, Paul, I have you to think, because you are so knowledgeable about this subject matter, I know, and you're serving millions of people out there, but we really appreciate that has made such a difference in our family, and I know it will for those of you that are watching right now. So thank you so much for joining us, and God bless you, and I'll see you on the next one.