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?
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Nor French Shepardic, Irish, or Scandinavian. My big problem is that hair is appearing in places I don't want it or it is getting very long and very gray. Of all the men in both my mother's and fahter's families, I for some reason was granted some body hair (I am thankful not as much as my grandfather). All the brothers and cousins have gone bald but me. None, though, have gray body hair. I don't know which I woudl perfer though.
I shaved for a meet this weekend. Well I clippered..I didn't go to blades...my wife is creeped out by it.
She says I remind her of "Buffalo Bill" from "The Silence of the Lambs."
...maybe I'll wake her up tonight and do the Buffalo Bill "Dance!"
That'll freak her good!
I have recently started swimming seriously the past year in a half, and I cannot say how much I love it!! I never was a great swimmer, now i wish I started earlier it is the best sport. Having loss about 35 lbs is great but I too have noticed my loss of body hear on my arms, legs and chest. I took notice it as i had a few ingrown hairs on my arms but then I realized that my arms were less hairy.
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.
Relax about the hair loss.
This ain't the 70s any more. That disco chest patch is so yesteryear.
Now the look is the fresh-waxed. And we are getting it without all the pain.
i was just doing a search on losing body hair and came upon your post. I too have been swimming about an hour at a time almost daily and have lost a lot of body hair, even my eyebrows are mostly gone. As well as my brown hair is turning blond in spots. I swim in a condo pool, and have noticed my throat and nose burning in addition to the loss of body hair. I plan to share the info about the chemical balance with the condo management.
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?
Some people are far more sensitive to the PH level and body hair loss is a common issue. I, sadly, don't seem to have this sensitivity and have to restrain myself from snarling at male teammates who complain. I would love to give my razor a break....
