What is Oxygenated Water?

But why all these speculations, when one should try to take the water for a period of time, then present findings that are factual? All those who poo-poo this product have not tried it.

if you oxygenate water as:

H₂O + O₂ → H₂O₂

you get hydrogen peroxide.

@browncoat: You clearly do not understand the world we live in. People sell even you stuff every day that you don't need and could get for free. People pay for it to feel better and if that's what it takes (placebo) then you should be all for it.

Also, who's to say that Formula Four Beverages Inc. is not coming out with a product that is actually beneficial and helps people once they have made some money off of this. People are so ignorant to how this world works? Yes, people buy crappy stuff and yes people complain about misleading ads all the time, but this is just how our world works. You never get anything for free even if it is free or do you think Facebook is not selling your data or Google?

No point in being angry or sad about this; it's how our world works and this won't change until capitalism is dead and without capitalism where would be? People would just throw the money away and we would end up having a world where some people who are smart end up owning more than others -- again. There's no way around it. You either put in some work or you don't. If you don't want to be a producer, then don't complain.

@irontoenail - Actually most people do get enough water. It's only after exercise that you really need all that much more and most people who exercise are well aware of the fact.

People guzzle water now as though it will cure all their ills and to some extent that's a good thing, because you should try to stay hydrated, but after a certain point you're doing more harm than good.

A lot of vitamins are water soluble and when you drink too much water they get flushed from your system too quickly. B vitamins for example, which most people don't get enough of as it is, since they are mostly found in fresh vegetables.

I personally would give the oxygenated water a miss and would try upping my intake of green leafy vegetables if I wanted to feel better and do better at sports.

@browncoat - I had never heard of oxygenated water before, except maybe the water in a fish tank, which often does need to be oxygenated. I guess that's where they come up with it, since it seems to work under the same principal.

Couldn't you just do the same thing by shaking a bottle of ordinary water though? That's how they get oxygen into the water for fish, they just stir up the water.

It seems a bit silly to me, but you know, anything that gets people drinking more water has to be a good thing.

This just seems like yet another attempt to get people to spend money on something that they don't need, and that furthermore doesn't actually work.

Oxygenated bottled water has no basis in science, but I'm sure if they do enough cool looking advertisements they can get people to buy it. I think it's really sad, actually, since this seems almost blatantly false advertising, and there must have been someone, somewhere who sat down and decided to market this product, even though they know it has no real benefits.

And, in fact, since it's sold in bottles, it's bad for the environment, as plastic bottles are becoming one of the worst offenders when it comes to littering. People buy so much water in general, when it really isn't any different from the stuff you get from the tap (and in some cases, it actually is water that's been got from a tap!).

It makes me sad and it makes me angry that people actually sell this stuff as though it was something special, when in reality it's no different from what anyone can get for free.