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2 May 2012

The oxygen of terror

OXYGEN seems to be in fashion in nostrum-land. We have seen the “liquid oxygen” on sale from the duty-free trolley on Continental Airlines (12 July 2008). Now Matthew Beasley introduces us to O2-BOO2ST at gmh-oxylife.com. We are informed that “empirical scientific evidence proves that oxygen deficiency is linked to a vast variety [of] – if not all – health problems and disease”. The accuracy of this statement would depend on the severity of the deficiency: we tend to associate acute lack of oxygen with just one health problem – namely, death.

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