A new study published online June 29 in the American Journal of Physiology — Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, shows that high levels of oxygen may slow the development of wrinkles by reducing skin damage caused by ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation from the sun – at least in mice.
Japanese researchers found that hairless mice placed in an oxygen chamber after exposure to UVB rays developed fewer wrinkles and had less evidence of skin damage than hairless mice exposed to UVB rays that didn’t spend time in the oxygen chamber.
Further studies would be required to determine whether high levels of oxygen would have the same effect on human skin exposed to UVB rays. Read more here.
