Years ago, in the 1990s....I worked around a contractor in Germany who had this odd health ritual....breathing oxygen (yes, out of the tank). He'd found some doctor (German guy) who advised that a minute or two of pure oxygen...in the morning as you awaken....would be good 'therapy' for something. I never understood the 'something' or the necessity of this.
He'd go through a tank about every six weeks, and would say that he felt better-than-usual after doing a few minutes of this.
This episode came up in my mind as news journalists hyped up the fact that Trump was doing pure oxygen in the hours before his trip to the hospital. The way that the CNN guy explained it....I almost got a feeling that humans don't normally breath oxygen, and that this was laced-up with oxygen-type drugs. None of that is true, but the childish performance of the CNN guy kinda stood out.
The sad thing about this CNN chatter....you will end up with two or three million Americans who think that breathing oxygen is hazardous to your health, and suggest that it'd be better if you'd just breath air....instead of oxygen.
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