In laboratory conditions and in animal studies, this material has been shown to keep generating hydrogen in the gut for 24 hours. But a record of measuring what actually happens in a person who takes it could not be found in the public databases we searched.
Whether it turns out to be useful, we honestly do not yet know. What we do know is that nobody has done it. That was reason enough to begin.
Research on hydrogen and the body has accumulated for close to two decades. But it has accumulated as far as animals. We begin where it stops.
The "24 hours of hydrogen generation" referred to on this page is based on experiments under conditions close to the intestinal environment and on reported animal studies. The amount, duration, and appearance in breath in humans have not been established. We make no statement describing effects reported in animals as effects in people.
The answer is simple. Because nothing would show up.
We measure the hydrogen in exhaled breath. When bacteria in the gut ferment what we eat, hydrogen is produced. Some of it dissolves into the blood, travels through the body, and leaves through the lungs as breath.
It is not a test and not a diagnosis.
There is no good or bad value. We do not describe it that way, and our staff will not either.
It determines nothing about illness.
The number is not a score. It is a scale for seeing your own change.
Breath hydrogen moves with what you ate, when you ate it, your constitution, and the state of your gut that day. Taking a single day's number and telling someone "this is you" would mean nothing.
What carries meaning is the line drawn when the same person is measured the same way, repeatedly. Before and after. A week ago and today. Whether that line moved is something you confirm with your own eyes. Not the product talking, but your own record.
There is a practical reason too. An instrument has a range, and outside it the absolute value of a given day cannot be stated accurately. Movement can still be followed. Reading movement rather than height is a design decision that takes the limits of the tool honestly.
It is almost disappointingly simple. You breathe into a bag. That is all. No needles. No blood.
After carbohydrates in particular, values are known to rise over roughly one and a half to two hours. Yesterday morning and this evening are not a comparison. So before measuring we ask briefly about the last meal, what was eaten, bowel condition, and supplements taken. A number that skips this step is of no use later.
An instrument has an upper and a lower bound. Beyond them we do not write "measured" — we write "outside the measurable range." A value pinned to the ceiling is not treated as a measurement. Sensors are replaced on schedule, with calibration and maintenance recorded.
Measured once, it stays an experience. What we actually want to deliver is continuation.
Records are kept both on a paper card and in an app. Stamps accumulate; last time's number is waiting when you return. We want the act of continuing to become the customer's own asset.
We have no intention of claiming something grand at the outset. First, 100 people. Then 1,000. Then 10,000.
We want to see what happens in actual living, not under ideal laboratory conditions.
The question we are asked most. The answer is that each stage has a different purpose. We are not collecting for its own sake.
| Scale | What becomes sayable | What becomes possible |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | A first sense of the pattern | Store operations settled; numbers of our own to work from |
| 1,000 | Comparison by condition (fed/fasted, age, continuity) | Sites replicated; material to show partners |
| 10,000 | The difference between those who continued and those who did not | Transition into research through proper ethical and regulatory channels |
| Singapore scale | The reality across a region | Providing aggregated insight becomes a business |
If we are to hold someone's numbers, we state how we will treat them first.
We explain and obtain consent before measuring, every time — what it is used for, and how far.
Data is stored within Singapore and handled under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA).
Analysis is performed in a form from which individuals cannot be identified. No one's record leaves as itself.
This is not clinical-trial data. We do not call it clinical data, nor present it as such.
Any move into scientific or clinical research goes through proper ethical and regulatory channels. No shortcuts.
On request, we will stop using or delete a person's records.
Normally this would be announced once it existed. We do the reverse. Publishing makes the building go faster.
Write that you will do it, and you have to. It can no longer be quietly scaled down for internal convenience.
Someone will read this and say "we could do that in our store", "those numbers interest me", "I could advise on that." Retail floors, researchers, agencies, regulatory advisors — what a build needs is always outside.
Not people being measured, but people making the data. One measurement from someone who knows why is worth far more than one from someone who does not.
So we show the middle of the work. What is not going well, and what is undecided, gets rewritten the moment it is decided. This page is not a finished document. It is a record in progress.
We do not say it. HG EVO is a dietary supplement, not a medicine, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
We do not present effects reported in animal studies as effects in people, nor write the unconfirmed as confirmed.
If an inconvenient result comes out, we publish that result.
Hydrogen is a molecule with a great deal still unknown about it. Being able to say "we do not know" about what we do not know is, we believe, the surest way to earn trust in this field.
Note: the product name and manufacturer of the measuring device, and actual measured values, are not stated on this page until regulatory confirmation in Singapore (device classification and import registration) and our own preliminary measurement are complete. They will be added once settled. The statement that no record of continuous measurement in humans could be found reflects a search of public databases, and is not an assertion that none exists anywhere.