Not opinions. Each one checked against 4,846 published papers.
The literature runs the opposite way. A 2026 study in Free Radical Biology and Medicine found plasma-activated medium causing calcium overload, collapse of mitochondrial membrane potential and cell death in lung cancer cells. Researchers pursue it precisely because it kills cells.
No paper in the corpus uses this as a biological measure. No unit, no method of measuring it in a person, no reported tissue outcome. Not weak evidence — no literature at all.
Not an established concept in mainstream physics as the term is used in wellness. Zero papers. Can be discussed honestly as culture, as long as you say that's what it is.
747 papers, zero completed human efficacy trials. Two very early studies recruiting — five patients and thirty. A 2026 review couldn't even pool the existing studies because protocols differed too much.
The September 2026 elastin study used purified protein in a test tube — no cells, no skin, no animals, no humans. The authors state their material may not represent elastin in living tissue.
No human study has looked at drinking plasma-activated water. The entire deliberate-ingestion literature is 54 Japanese quail in a 2024 poultry paper.
People repeat these in good faith. “Here's what the research actually found” beats “you're wrong” every time.
You can love an idea and say plainly it isn't established. What breaks trust is blending it into the same sentence as a cited finding.
This is an extract. The full picture is in The Evidence Map — or start at the library index.
Cold Plasma Research Library. Compiled from Europe PMC and ClinicalTrials.gov, September 2026 — 4,846 cold plasma papers, 662 on plasma-activated water, 52 registered trials. Counts are title-restricted and therefore floors, not ceilings: a low number means barely anyone has made this their subject, not that nobody has ever looked.
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