What is electrolyzed water, what benefits does it have, and can drinking it protect the liver?
What is electrolyzed water? Can drinking electrolyzed water protect the liver? Have you heard of this? Is it true? Is there any evidence for it?
Electrolyzed water usually refers to the product generated after water containing salt (such as sodium chloride) undergoes electrolysis. The water itself after electrolysis is neutral, and other ions can be added, or it can be separated through a semipermeable membrane to produce two kinds of water with different properties. One is alkaline ionized water, and the other is acidic ionized water.

Can drinking electrolyzed water every day protect the liver and even inhibit the growth of cancer cells? Lu Fengzhou, chair professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at private Chung Shan Medical University, announced on 2006/8/21 the results of a study titled "Evaluation of the Antioxidant and Liver-Protecting Functions of Electrolyzed Reduced Water." From 2004 to 2006, experiments on more than a hundred white mice found that electrolyzed water could achieve a liver-protecting effect.
Although the research was presented with great certainty, physicians remain cautious about such claims. Li Yijia, an attending physician at the National Taiwan University Health Management Center, said that carbon tetrachloride does indeed harm the liver, but the general public would not possibly ingest it in daily life. Moreover, the factors causing liver disease are mostly hepatitis B or hepatitis C, and their mechanisms of action are different, so it is really difficult to generalize.
⟦NL> Xiao Dongming, director of the Food Sanitation Division of the Department of Health, said that the Department of Health respects scholars' exercise of academic freedom and their discourse. If scholars believe there has been a breakthrough in research, they are welcome to submit scientific evidence for experts to review, but before that, if any packaged water product or electrolyzed water device claims to have a liver-protecting function, it will all be regarded as exaggerated and untrue, and a fine of NT$30,000 to NT$150,000 may be imposed.
If a water product or electrolyzed water device claims to have a liver-protecting function, you must not buy it. After reading this article, you will know at a glance that it is false. So do not, whenever something is unclear, just listen to others say it is good and then assume it is good. That is not right.