What Really Happens in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber?

Fountain of youth or fatuous fad, hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires a lot of nerve

Brandy L Schillace
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJun 23, 2021

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Hyperbaric Center of Queens, Creative Commons

No one is really prepared to spend two hours in a high-pressure oxygen tube as though you’re about to be punted into space through an air-lock. But given recent news stories claiming hyperbaric oxygen therapy can make you younger, cure…

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Brandy L Schillace
Elemental

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her