Michael Jackson's oxygen chamber found
Michael
Jackson's oxygen chamber has been found lying in a storage warehouse.
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Michael Jackson: The chamber enables patients to breath in 100
per cent oxygen, rather than the 21 per cent normal concentration in air Photo: AP
10:08AM BST 11 Aug 2009
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The
singer used the medical chamber to improve his health, once claiming it could
help him live to be "at least 150".
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Jackson,
who died in June aged 50, used the Sechrist 2500B chamber in 1984, after being
burned while filming a Pepsi advertisement.
The
chamber enables patients to breath in 100 per cent oxygen, rather than the 21
per cent normal concentration in air, which can allow for speedier recovery of
damaged tissue.
He
subsequently donated £900,000 to the Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City,
California, which allowed the organisation to buy the equipment.
In 1986
he was pictured using it again, apparently sleeping. An American magazine
quoted him as saying: "I plan to get one immediately. If I treat my body
properly I'll live to at least 150".
In 1994
he bought the machine off the hospital.
It is
now owned by another medical centre, OxyHeal, according to the Daily Mirror.
Ted
Gurnee, its business director, told the paper: "Michael wouldn't have
slept in the chamber all night as it would have caused oxygen toxicity and he'd
have died. Instead he probably used it for one or two hours at a time.
"We
conducted a study and found it helps promote the growth of older cells,
effectively slowing down the ageing process. So maybe Michael was right."
