A lifelong tinkerer who goes deep on everything now starts every morning at a machine on his counter
At 66, Wes Gordon has built a life around figuring out how things work. Three decades as a plumber, an associate's degree and 13 years in tech support, and now a maintenance manager caring for a beachfront office building and a home on the river. Along the way he earned permaculture certificates, built aquaponics systems in his backyard, and rigged his own battery-and-generator power setups for hurricane season. "Overall, all around, always been health-conscious," he says.
So when molecular hydrogen crossed his path, Wes did what he always does: he went deep. Two years later, the Lourdes Hydrofix sits on his counter, woven into his mornings before a 5 a.m. start.
But getting there took the same thing everything in Wes's life takes: proof he could see for himself. "I still am a, I'm a healthy skeptic," he says. "There's a lot of hype out there on the internet, and I had to know for myself." That skepticism is exactly why his story matters to anyone standing where he once stood.
At 65, his body was shifting, and he wasn't willing to just wait and see
The curiosity started on YouTube, where Wes was researching how to build and fix things and stumbled onto a video about molecular hydrogen. It showed up in his feed, he listened to the man's story, and his reaction was immediate: "That's very bizarre. I've never heard anything like that." The bells and whistles went off, but so did his defenses. He'd heard this kind of thing before. What kept him watching was that the videos kept pointing at facts he could go look up on his own, and he did.
There was a personal urgency underneath the curiosity. Wes was just turning 65 and had started noticing his health shifting in ways he hadn't before.
"I was like, 'Something's not right here. I need to start investigating what's not working or what's going on.'"
Hydrogen sounded, frankly, like it might be too good to be true. "It seemed like pseudoscience," he admits, "'cause everybody knows water's made out of H2O... And why would water make any difference that's just got more hydrogen in it?" For a man who trusts his own hands over anyone's marketing, that doubt was a wall he had to get past on his own terms.
What moved it from pseudoscience to plausible, for him, was his own reading. He came across the idea that the body produces more hydrogen in the gut when we're young and less as we age, and that reframed the whole question. He isn't a scientist and doesn't claim to be. But it gave him a reason to keep looking instead of dismissing it, and for a skeptic, that was the whole game.
He tried the cheaper bottle first, and it never moved the needle
Before he ever considered the machine, Wes went for the lower-cost route. He bought a portable hydrogen bottle and gave it a genuine, extended trial, not a day or two, but weeks stretching into months, alongside his healthy eating and vitamins.
"I noticed a little bit of more energy, but nothing substantial... So that's when I said, 'I'm gonna get serious, and I'm gonna go after the original and see what that machine can do.'"
What pulled the Lourdes Hydrofix ahead was everything the researcher in him respected. When asked why he chose this machine over the other hydrogen options, Wes didn't hesitate: "Knowing the Japanese and how they are perfectionists and they love quality and they build great stuff." He had also heard the story behind the machine, that the engineer who designed it built it for his own daughter and refused to compromise on the purity of the water it made. That was enough to make him look closer.
Asked whether something specific about how it was built sealed it, his answer was one word, more or less: "Abso-frigging-lutely." It was how they built it, the testing, the actual manufacturing parts. "The high-quality stuff that they use, the titanium and stuff... that was really top of the line." "It wasn't cheap." The investment gave him pause, but a lifetime of experience answered it: "a little extra money is usually worth it."
Setup was so simple it was crazy, and there were two ways to use it
When the machine arrived, the man who builds power systems for fun was almost amused by how little there was to it. "It was actually so simple, it was crazy," Wes says. "It's just got a little filter, you pour the water in it, you got 30 minutes."
What genuinely sold him was that one device did two things. "You can also hook a hose to it and breathe it," he explains, "because you had two different ways to actually saturate your body with hydrogen."
His routine took shape fast and has barely changed his life. He's up at 5 a.m. for work with a full glass, then mixes it into his coffee and smoothies and drinks it alongside his vitamins. "I use it as much as possible," he says. On the inhalation side, he'll sit with his coffee and use it before heading out, usually about an hour. "It clears up your mind. You feel better." And he isn't the only one at home who's all in.
"Me and the roommate that lives with me, we just went crazy, 'cause she's using it as much as me, and we're telling everybody about it."
Two weeks in, the skeptic couldn't argue with himself anymore
Wes wasn't going to rely on how he felt. Turning 65, he worked with his doctor so he'd have something outside his own head to look at. A feeling was never going to convince him.
Then he did what he always does. He tested it himself, hard. "I was probably overdoing it, but I wanted to know if this stuff actually works," he says. Glasses in the morning, more when he got home, some packed for work. And even when he felt something, he doubted the feeling.
"Immediately, within the first two weeks, literally noticed an energy shift. But of course, being a skeptic, I thought, 'Well, this is probably... That's my brain telling me this is doing something better for me.'"
So he kept watching. Over time, the pattern held, and he stopped arguing with it. His conclusion is about as honest as a skeptic gets: "I didn't know exactly what it was doing, but I knew it was doing something."
"I felt more energetic, more positive. It was just I could feel something shifting internally," he recalls of those early mornings. "I could tell that my vitamins were having more of an impact, my energy levels were changing, and I just felt more at ease, more alive, and that wasn't happening until that water showed up."
What Wes emphasized again and again was the everyday feeling: waking with more energy, a clearer mind, a sense that his other healthy habits were finally landing. "You just can tell, you feel better," he says. "There's like an inner voice in your body. You know intuitively when something's helping you and when it's not." People started noticing he had more energy than before, and asking what he was doing differently. He tells them.
Two years in, the doubt is long gone. "After the first month, I was like, 'There's no way I'm stopping this.'" He's become particular about his water in a way he never was. "I never drank the tap water, but now it's like I gotta have this water. It's a healthy addiction, if I had to phrase it. Totally." The friends who once thought it cost too much have gone quiet.
For the person on the fence, he offers the same proof that convinced him
Ask Wes whether he'd do it again and the answer is instant. "Absolutely." The machine, he says flatly, isn't going anywhere: "It's part of my life now."
When someone curious, someone like the skeptic he used to be, asks him about hydrogen, he doesn't sell. He teaches, pointing them toward the published research on molecular hydrogen and letting them look into it the way he did. His advice for anyone still comparing options is simple: come at a skeptic with facts they can look up, then let the experience speak. And once they start, he says, they won't look back, "because of what it'll do to your mindset, your positivity, your attitude."
For Wes, it comes down to gratitude, and to trusting what he can feel.
"This was like a godsend, like God answered my prayers through another person, through your company, with this machine."
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