5/9/2007

In Japan, I am sure you’ve seen cans of oxygen being sold in 7-eleven’s and shops. Supposedly, if you inhale the 100% pure oxygen you’ll be an inch closer to longevity. So they say really. Although i heard some mixed reviews about oxygen. The air we breath in is not pure oxygen even without the pollutants and some doctors have cautioned oxygen poisoning.

Taken from Stedman’s Medical Dictionary:

oxygen toxicity
n.
A condition resulting from breathing high partial pressures of oxygen, characterized by visual and hearing abnormalities, unusual fatigue, muscular twitching, anxiety, confusion, incoordination, and convulsions.

So all this oxygen therapy cannot be all that good and I have a question for them: Is it purely oxygen? There are oxygen bars with the nuzzle for customers, oxygen in a can and an oxygen capsule that micheal jackson and david beckham swear upon. Say it is really pure oxygen in the can and in those bars but as soon as you open the can and spray, the O2 will be dispersed into air mixing with the other molecules before you inhale and at the bar with the tubes in your nostrils, you’re still breathing outside air, if you get what i mean. Now, the oxygen capsule that two famous ppl have sworn on; treatment is just 40mins. Any longer, i think you might have oxygen poisoning. The feeling after 40mins in the capsules includes a sense of “lightness” and “happiness”…it sounds to me like the early stages of the definition above. :P

Well, i guess moderation is key. The therapy probably works but we don’t know for sure how it wil help in the long term if at all. It could all be a gimmick. Someone saying ‘holy shit, we need more oxygen here…hey..that gives me an idea *lightbulb*’, get what i mean? Someone’s bright idea that got out of hand.