“[A] new trend is oxygen-fortified drinks to replenish your body with oxygen. It shouldn’t surprise you that breathing works better. Oxygen best enters the bloodstream through the lungs, not the stomach. You would need to drink about a litre of oxygenated water every 30 seconds to get a deep breath’s worth of extra oxygen, and this assumes you don’t pee.” Christopher Wanjek —Bad Medicine: Homeopathy is based on a 300-year-old mistake…Guardian)
This reminds me of the anti-fluroide panic that surges up every few years. Why do some people get so fixated on one idea?
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