Short-term H_2 inhalation improves running performance and torso strength in healthy adults
Javorac D, Stajer V, Ratgeber L, Betlehem J, Ostojic S. · Biology of sport. 2019;36(4):333-339.
What kind of evidence is this?
Human
Randomized blinded controlled study
Exercise and recovery
Inhaled H₂
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Methods at a glance
Human participants studied for exercise and recovery. See eligibility criteria in the linked full text.
Human study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=20.
7 days
Full text reports inhaled H₂-containing gas. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 4%, 7 days, 60 min, 4 weeks, 45 mL/min.
Inhaled molecular H₂; not classified as Brown’s gas without an H₂/O₂ composition.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 4%, 7 days, 60 min, 4 weeks, 45 mL/min. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.
Not reported in the full article — an absolute H₂ flow in mL/min could not be verified.
O₂ concentration and absolute O₂ flow were not both reported in the full article; no value is inferred.
Placebo or matched control reported in the full article.
Outcomes and reported result
survival or mortality, clinical symptoms or functional scores, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury, metabolic laboratory measures, cardiovascular measures
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “Baseline CRP levels were decreased by 1.0 mg/L (95% CI; 0.6–1.4) and by 0.7 mg/L (95% CI; 0.3–1.2) after hydrogen and placebo inhalation at…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.
The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.
A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.
Cautions and applicability
Human evidence; design, sample size and comparator limit interpretation. No funding statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred. No explicit conflict statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred.
Applies only to the population and protocol reported in this exercise and recovery article.
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No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.
Sources and record status
PMID: 31938004 · DOI: 10.5114/biolsport.2019.88756
A free full article is available through PubMed Central.
Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.
2026-08-10