Since I have a self-imposed ban on returning to the ESPY discussion and going insane battling Ion Beza, I have a new post. Warning - this post is odd but I have been contemplating asking the panel of experts for a few months now.
Here's my problem (one among many), I'm losing my body hair. Does anyone else have this problem who swims a lot? I'm not a nutty swimmer, probably swimming around 7-8 hours per week. mostly indoors. But, I'm telling you, I am disturbed by what has happened to me. My wife is disturbed by the neighborhood women asking her if her husband shaves his legs and dyes his hair (neither of which I do).
I really didn't notice anything until I went to a party with some co-workers and was wearing shorts. The remarks have been unlimited since then. Most commonly I am now referred to as Mr. Bigglesworth, that hairless cat from the Austin Powers movie.
In all seriousness, is this a common problem? Any tips on what I can do to reverse this or mitigate it?
I was reading away on this thread and saw Phil Arcuni, a very avid poster from yesteryear, and was overjoyed to think he was back. Then I realized this is an old thread from the golden age of Phil Arcuni and Ion Beza, and waves of misty-eye-inducing nostalgia washed over me, head to toe.
When I awoke from my dazed reverie, I found that my body hair was....
essentially unchanged.
However, I would like to contribute one quasi-scientificcy factoid to the developing conversation. I am a MZ twin, i.e., monozyotic, i.e., identical. John, my brother, used to swim in college but now jogs as his main exercise. I have spent a good deal of my adult life soaking in a chlorinated bullion like the rest of the posters here.
It could be completely coincidence, it could be epi-genetic changes whereby our identical DNA has been differentially turned off and on through our separate journeys through life's travails, but I am MUCH LESS HAIRIER than my twin brother. Seeing as I am fairly close to one of those Mexican hair-covered circus performing genetic anomaly family members, my brother is TRULY Sasquatchean in this regard.
I can only hope that whatever compound(s) it is that depilates our bodies does not necessarily trim other dangling, waving, and/or freak-flaggishly- flying aspects of us swimmers.
I was reading away on this thread and saw Phil Arcuni, a very avid poster from yesteryear, and was overjoyed to think he was back. Then I realized this is an old thread from the golden age of Phil Arcuni and Ion Beza, and waves of misty-eye-inducing nostalgia washed over me, head to toe.
When I awoke from my dazed reverie, I found that my body hair was....
essentially unchanged.
However, I would like to contribute one quasi-scientificcy factoid to the developing conversation. I am a MZ twin, i.e., monozyotic, i.e., identical. John, my brother, used to swim in college but now jogs as his main exercise. I have spent a good deal of my adult life soaking in a chlorinated bullion like the rest of the posters here.
It could be completely coincidence, it could be epi-genetic changes whereby our identical DNA has been differentially turned off and on through our separate journeys through life's travails, but I am MUCH LESS HAIRIER than my twin brother. Seeing as I am fairly close to one of those Mexican hair-covered circus performing genetic anomaly family members, my brother is TRULY Sasquatchean in this regard.
I can only hope that whatever compound(s) it is that depilates our bodies does not necessarily trim other dangling, waving, and/or freak-flaggishly- flying aspects of us swimmers.
