[娛樂時尚] 邁克爾杰克遜生前曾高價造氧艙,欲活150歲

國際流行巨星邁克爾杰克遜驟然從我們身邊隕落，雖然我們再也無法欣賞到他神奇的舞步和歌喉，但他的影響卻絲毫不減。近日，有媒體爆出杰克遜生前曾用過的時間機器——氧艙，這種氧艙主要用來治療有嚴重燒傷的患者。據悉，杰克遜早前在拍攝百事可樂的一則廣告中不慎燒傷，此后，一直用此氧艙來療傷，據說該氧艙還可以益壽延年，使正常人活到150歲。

Michael Jackson's time machine found and tested

This is Michael Jackson’s infamous oxygen chamber （氧艙）– now gathering dust in a warehouse（庫房）.

Legend has it Jacko would lie in the 60,000 machine in the hope of halting the ravages of time（歲月的蹉跎） and living to 150.

Now the Sechrist 2500B hyperbaric oxygen chamber （高壓氧艙）– in which Jackson was pictured in 1986 – is holed up in a storage depot in San Diego, California（躲藏在加州圣地亞哥的一個倉庫）.

Yesterday, following in the King of Pop’s footsteps, I too tried it out.

Locked in, I immediately felt claustrophobic（幽閉恐懼）. You feel sealed off, hearing little noise from outside. And everything looks distorted through the glass.

An intercom（內部通話系統） lets you talk to other people, watch TV or listen to music. Alternatively, you can just snooze（小睡）.

Once the treatment starts, you experience the same type of pressure change as you would on a plane and you need to swallow to pop your ears.

You then breathe 100% pure oxygen – normal air has less than 21% – and get up to 15 times more oxygen to your bodily tissues than you would normally.

The treatment usually lasts up to two hours and is said to leave patients euphoric and energetic, although I baled out after five minutes.

Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City, California, bought the chamber in 1985 to treat burns victims.

Jacko was treated there in 1984 for burns he suffered filming a Pepsi ad. His subsequent 900,000 donation allowed the unit to buy the device.

He was pictured using it there in 1986 and it caused a sensation when a US magazine quoted him as saying: “I plan to get one immediately. If I treat my body properly I’ll live to at least 150.”

But it was 1994 before the dad of three – who died in June aged 50 – bought the Sechrist off the hospital.

It eventually found its way to another California medical centre, who gave it to current owners Oxyheal.

The firm makes giant chambers that can hold 23 people. Company chief Ted Gurnee said: “Michael wouldn’t have slept in the chamber all night as it would have caused oxygen toxicity（氧氣中毒） 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.”

Keke View：不管邁克爾·杰克遜現在是不是過氣天王，他至今仍是頗受人關注的。關于他的私生活紀錄片在美國居然創下了收視新高。

國際流行巨星邁克爾杰克遜驟然從我們身邊隕落，雖然我們再也無法欣賞到他神奇的舞步和歌喉，但他的影響卻絲毫不減。近日，有媒體爆出杰克遜生前曾用過的時間機器——氧艙，這種氧艙主要用來治療有嚴重燒傷的患者。據悉，杰克遜早前在拍攝百事可樂的一則廣告中不慎燒傷，此后，一直用此氧艙來療傷，據說該氧艙還可以益壽延年，使正常人活到150歲。

Michael Jackson's time machine found and tested

This is Michael Jackson’s infamous oxygen chamber （氧艙）– now gathering dust in a warehouse（庫房）.

Legend has it Jacko would lie in the 60,000 machine in the hope of halting the ravages of time（歲月的蹉跎） and living to 150.

Now the Sechrist 2500B hyperbaric oxygen chamber （高壓氧艙）– in which Jackson was pictured in 1986 – is holed up in a storage depot in San Diego, California（躲藏在加州圣地亞哥的一個倉庫）.

Yesterday, following in the King of Pop’s footsteps, I too tried it out.

Locked in, I immediately felt claustrophobic（幽閉恐懼）. You feel sealed off, hearing little noise from outside. And everything looks distorted through the glass.

An intercom（內部通話系統） lets you talk to other people, watch TV or listen to music. Alternatively, you can just snooze（小睡）.

Once the treatment starts, you experience the same type of pressure change as you would on a plane and you need to swallow to pop your ears.

You then breathe 100% pure oxygen – normal air has less than 21% – and get up to 15 times more oxygen to your bodily tissues than you would normally.

The treatment usually lasts up to two hours and is said to leave patients euphoric and energetic, although I baled out after five minutes.

Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City, California, bought the chamber in 1985 to treat burns victims.

Jacko was treated there in 1984 for burns he suffered filming a Pepsi ad. His subsequent 900,000 donation allowed the unit to buy the device.

He was pictured using it there in 1986 and it caused a sensation when a US magazine quoted him as saying: “I plan to get one immediately. If I treat my body properly I’ll live to at least 150.”

But it was 1994 before the dad of three – who died in June aged 50 – bought the Sechrist off the hospital.

It eventually found its way to another California medical centre, who gave it to current owners Oxyheal.

The firm makes giant chambers that can hold 23 people. Company chief Ted Gurnee said: “Michael wouldn’t have slept in the chamber all night as it would have caused oxygen toxicity（氧氣中毒） 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.”

Keke View：不管邁克爾·杰克遜現在是不是過氣天王，他至今仍是頗受人關注的。關于他的私生活紀錄片在美國居然創下了收視新高。