In Shibuya I saw this Oxygen bar. Given the air polution problems, I though that this was a neat idea. I could imagine adding some flavoured oxygen in meeting rooms to increase the fow of ideas in a brainstorming session. However, it seems that there is no scientific proof that increasing the level of oxygen acts as a Workvitamin:
“Oxygen fans tout the benefits of oxygen as reducing stress, increasing energy and alertness, lessening the effects of hangovers, headaches, and sinus problems, and generally relaxing the body. But there are no long-term, well-controlled scientific studies that support these claims for oxygen in healthy people. And people with healthy lungs don’t need additional oxygen, says Mary Purucker, M.D., Ph.D., a pulmonary specialist in CDER. “We’ve evolved for millions of years in an atmosphere of about 21 percent oxygen.”
The full story here.
600 yen for 10 minutes, plus 300 yen for the mask.
The menu
People are actually queing.
