All life forms were born in water.
                                                  Therefore, it should be a logiccal to conclude that every necessary condition for birth and existence
                               (as well as health and disease) of them should be hidden in water. Water or H2O is a compound of hydrogen, a reductant,
                    and oxygen, an oxidant. Therefore, it can be said that all living organisms are under the control of reductants and oxidants, (i.e.under
          the control of reduction and oxidation). Redox reaction is the most universal, original and important principle on earth, regardless of its being
                                         organic or inorganic. In short, oxidation brings about sickness, and reduction restores us back to health again.

It is  logical to me that reaction of active hydrogen against active oxygen, although it is invisible to our eyes, must be an underlying principle. Yet the most
original and principal reaction. Redox reaction should be hidden behind numerous ‘visible’ reactions, which we can examine and recognize by so-called clinical exam data. Living organisms originate in water. Unfortunately, however, the water upon which we all depend is nothing but " hydrogen-poor water"
     because of potent hydrogen bond energy. And hydrogen-poor water is not sufficient to reduce active oxygen which had compelled Desulfovibrio gigas
             to develop hydrogenase, in order to obtain active hydrogen with which they could have tried to fight against active oxygen.  By the same principle,
                                                hydrogen-poor water has predisposed us to suffer   from various diseases, and has compelled us
                                                                                              to develop procedures to fight against active oxygen.     

                                                       Hidemitsu HAYASHI, M.D., Water Institute,　and Munenori KAWAMURA, M.D., Kyowa Medical Clinic,