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What is an "oxygen cocktail"?
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June 10th, 2010
A colleague of mine from a former Soviet republic wants to start importing and selling “oxygen cocktail” mixes into the UK.
As I’d never heard of it before (she explained it was similar to the administration of canned oxygen รก la Spaceballs), I did a quick Google search, which turned up beauty websites making the standard dubious claims and some links to medical papers from Soviet-era scientists regarding the regenerative effects of something called “oxygen cocktails”, although they appeared to be more about hyperbaric chambers and the uses of pure oxygen in helping athletes recover from injury. Apart from that, there was very little information from sources that I would trust, and even no Wikipedia article.
My colleague says it’s actually a drink with a high dissolved oxygen content that goes straight in to your bloodstream.
I think she’s talking nonsense – blinded by pseudoscience, as it were, but she’s convinced there’s solid evidence to support it.
Am I wrong?
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