Interview with Dr. Patrick Flanagan contributed by Duncan Crow on Sunday, April 14, 2004

It would take 1000 LBS. of Pycnogenol antioxidant to equal ONE CAPSULE of Active H-.That's strong stuff! Use referrer ID 767292402. The secret of Active H- is explained by the inventor, Patrick Flanagan. The most powerful antioxidants in the world excluding Active H- of course are the Pycnogenols (grape seed and pine bark). Now get ready for a mind blowing fact -- It would take 1000 LBS. of Pycnogenols antioxidants to equal ONE CAPSULE of Active H-. (1000 lbs. = 452.48 kg.) To have that much OPC (Pycnogenols) you would have to buy 100,444 bottles. At about $40.00 a bottle and 4.5 gr. in a bottle of 90 tablets. It would cost you $4,921,756.00 in Pycnogenols to equal ONE CAPSULE of Active H-. Active H-'s awesome effectiveness as a free-radical quencher is quickly becoming legendary.

For a few details on how it works, let's eavesdrop for a moment on this conference call with Dr. Patrick Flanagan, Active H-'s inventor. Patrick Flanagan: Active H- provides negative ions for your body internally in the form of negatively charged hydrogen which is found naturally in all living systems. Active H- improves biological terrain; you're going to hear a lot in the future about biological terrain which is the environment of the inside of the body and basically what we're doing is providing a biological energy terrain which improves the body's ability to fight all kinds of viruses, bacteria, things like that because every single living organism has a certain biological terrain in which it can live and basically Active H- improves the biological terrain of the living system so that it's able to easily reject all the predators which are attacking our bodies from the outside.

Q: There's a lot of discussion about hydrogen atoms, talk about that a bit!
A: Dr.Albert Szent-Gyorgi, who discovered vitamin C (he received the Nobel Prize for this) in one of his writings, said that electrons do not move in the body unless they are attached to hydrogen. Basically we make negatively ionized hydrogen in our bodies through a process called carbohydrates which are 1/3 carbon, 1/3 hydrogen, 1/3 oxygen; we have enzymes called dehydrogenese that release the hydrogen from carbohydrates and you get CO2 , in other words the carbon and oxygen combine and we also then get negatively charged hydrogen ions which are used in the production of ATP, used to neutralize free radicals; in fact negatively ionized hydrogen is the most powerful free radical deactivator in existence; there's nothing else that comes close because it's the smallest ion which means it can move everywhere in the body, there's no place in the body it cannot go to neutralize free radicals.

Q: In the material that we have, you call Active H- the ULTIMATE antioxidant, why?
A: Because hydrogen, negatively ionized, has an extra electron which is very loosely bound, very loosely coupled and all free radicals are positively charged, looking for an electron; the way free radicals damage DNA in our cells is that they'll grab an electron out of the DNA and damage it because that's a source of electrons for free radicals; so basically what we're doing is providing a ready source of electrons; the negatively charged hydrogen or Active H- gives up electrons more easily than the DNA in the cell and therefore prevents damage to the cells; it's a free radical protector and it 's so powerful ...for example, vitamin C is also an electron donor; it also deactivates free radicals, but the thing is that vitamin C is a huge molecule compared to hydrogen; it's hundreds of thousands of millions of times larger than hydrogen; so each molecule of vitamin C can only give one electron where as each molecule of hydrogen from Active H- gives you one electron. Thus a tiny, tiny amount of Active H-s can give you billions of electrons; you'd have to take 100 kilograms of vitamin C to give that many electrons; so it's millions of times more powerful than vitamin C.

Q: Is it true that you'd have to consume a 1000 lbs. of pycnogenol to equal one capsule of Active H-?
A: Absolutely. Or 10,000 glasses of fresh organic orange juice. However, that doesn't mean that other free radical fighters can be eliminated because every free radical fighter, pycnogenol, vit E, vit C, have their own electron voltage, in other words, each electron has its own energy; so they are also needed by the body for many things in addition but for free radical fighting, they are nothing as compared to Active H-.