Impact of chlorine?

Interesting topic that I revisited myself as of late. I agree in that the pool chemicals could be out of the normal range. Or, there may be another factor causing your hair loss. I swim 6x a week and don't notice hair loss. Although I don't take any RX or OTC meds, I do have a daily vitamin routine. My herbalist was horrified that I swim in a chlorinated pool and felt that my swimming in a pool regularly would cause "excessive free radical formation, which accelerates aging, increases vulnerability to genetic mutation and cancer development, hinders cholesterol metabolism, and promotes hardening of arteries. . . " and more which I care not to repeat here. Two of my eye doctors also do not like my swimming in pools as they feel the exposure to germs and chemicals promote or increase eye infections and irritation (even if one uses goggles.) I said I cannot live without my swimming so I am going to continue with it. I find myself running into more doctors and heath professionals who feel that my continual exposure to chlorine is really going to compromise my health long term. Arg. :doh: I gotta say I'm skeptical on all of this including the effect of chlorine on hair loss. I'm also a 4X3500 type of swimmer with no hair loss. If it accelerates aging wouldn't regular swimmers die earlier? Why do we see so many healthy 70+ year old Masters swimmers? Hinders cholesterol metabolism when we know vigorous exercise is a proven way to increase the "good" choleterol? Increases vulnerability to genetic mutation? Puhleeeeezzzzze...... Should lifetime swimmers be susceptible to strange growths on our bodies? I'm curious too - how many eye doctors do you have? Your post makes it sound like you have more than two.

Interesting topic that I revisited myself as of late. I agree in that the pool chemicals could be out of the normal range. Or, there may be another factor causing your hair loss. I swim 6x a week and don't notice hair loss. Although I don't take any RX or OTC meds, I do have a daily vitamin routine. My herbalist was horrified that I swim in a chlorinated pool and felt that my swimming in a pool regularly would cause "excessive free radical formation, which accelerates aging, increases vulnerability to genetic mutation and cancer development, hinders cholesterol metabolism, and promotes hardening of arteries. . . " and more which I care not to repeat here. Two of my eye doctors also do not like my swimming in pools as they feel the exposure to germs and chemicals promote or increase eye infections and irritation (even if one uses goggles.) I said I cannot live without my swimming so I am going to continue with it. I find myself running into more doctors and heath professionals who feel that my continual exposure to chlorine is really going to compromise my health long term. Arg. :doh: I gotta say I'm skeptical on all of this including the effect of chlorine on hair loss. I'm also a 4X3500 type of swimmer with no hair loss. If it accelerates aging wouldn't regular swimmers die earlier? Why do we see so many healthy 70+ year old Masters swimmers? Hinders cholesterol metabolism when we know vigorous exercise is a proven way to increase the "good" choleterol? Increases vulnerability to genetic mutation? Puhleeeeezzzzze...... Should lifetime swimmers be susceptible to strange growths on our bodies? I'm curious too - how many eye doctors do you have? Your post makes it sound like you have more than two.