Impact of chlorine?

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. No need to preach to the choir. But if I sprout an extra appendage or a third eye, I'm outa here. However, I think these physicians from Emory were referring to genetic mutation at the cellular level. They *say* chlorine reacts with organic compounds in water to produce THM trihalomethanes or carcinogenic byproducts leading to increased risk of certain types of cancer and miscarriage. A SMALL excerpt from some of the literature I was given. . . Taking a warm shower or lounging in a hot tub filled with chlorinated water, one inhales chloroform (a carcinogen). Warm water opens the pores, causing the skin to act like a sponge, and so one will absorb and inhale more chlorine in a 10-minute shower than by drinking eight glasses of the same water. This irritates the eyes, the sinuses, throat, skin and lungs, makes the hair and scalp dry, worsening dandruff. It can weaken immunity (I think some of the eye docs and ENTs are coming across this info as they are spouting it back to their patients - like me). Industrial chemist J.P. Bercz, PhD, showed in 1992 that chlorinated water alters and destroys unsaturated essential fatty acids (EFAs), the building blocks of people's brains and central nervous systems. The compound hypochlorite, created when chlorine mixes with water, generates excess free radicals; these oxidize EFAs, turning them rancid. Studies in Belgium have related development of deadly malignant melanoma to consumption of chlorinated water. Franz H. Rampen, et al., of the Netherlands, state that the worldwide pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlorination of swimming pool water have led to an increase in melanoma. Sodium hypochlorite, used in chlorination of water for swimming pools, is mutagenic in the Ames test and other mutagenicity tests. Recent research has found a new hazard in chlorinated water: a byproduct called MX. A research team from the National Public Health Institute in Finland discovered that, by causing genetic mutations, MX initiates cancer in laboratory animals. And DCA (dichloro acedic acid) in chlorinated water alters cholesterol metabolism, changing HDL ("good") to LDL ("bad") cholesterol--and causes liver cancer in laboratory animals. Anyhoo, perhaps there is an MD or PhD on this board who is knowledgeable in this area of chlorine and it's effects. I'd like to know if I should worry about all this. I figure swimming still has to be better for you than :drink::drink: What's not going to kill us these days. . . Bottom line, there are still plenty of Emory docs who stick their kids in swimming. I'm curious too - how many eye doctors do you have? Your post makes it sound like you have more than two. Saw 5 (including 2 lacrimal, 1 retinal specialist, 1 general opth, and 1 ENT) over the past year due to my having eye surgery. :toohurt: Only the ENT was PRO-swimming.

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. No need to preach to the choir. But if I sprout an extra appendage or a third eye, I'm outa here. However, I think these physicians from Emory were referring to genetic mutation at the cellular level. They *say* chlorine reacts with organic compounds in water to produce THM trihalomethanes or carcinogenic byproducts leading to increased risk of certain types of cancer and miscarriage. A SMALL excerpt from some of the literature I was given. . . Taking a warm shower or lounging in a hot tub filled with chlorinated water, one inhales chloroform (a carcinogen). Warm water opens the pores, causing the skin to act like a sponge, and so one will absorb and inhale more chlorine in a 10-minute shower than by drinking eight glasses of the same water. This irritates the eyes, the sinuses, throat, skin and lungs, makes the hair and scalp dry, worsening dandruff. It can weaken immunity (I think some of the eye docs and ENTs are coming across this info as they are spouting it back to their patients - like me). Industrial chemist J.P. Bercz, PhD, showed in 1992 that chlorinated water alters and destroys unsaturated essential fatty acids (EFAs), the building blocks of people's brains and central nervous systems. The compound hypochlorite, created when chlorine mixes with water, generates excess free radicals; these oxidize EFAs, turning them rancid. Studies in Belgium have related development of deadly malignant melanoma to consumption of chlorinated water. Franz H. Rampen, et al., of the Netherlands, state that the worldwide pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlorination of swimming pool water have led to an increase in melanoma. Sodium hypochlorite, used in chlorination of water for swimming pools, is mutagenic in the Ames test and other mutagenicity tests. Recent research has found a new hazard in chlorinated water: a byproduct called MX. A research team from the National Public Health Institute in Finland discovered that, by causing genetic mutations, MX initiates cancer in laboratory animals. And DCA (dichloro acedic acid) in chlorinated water alters cholesterol metabolism, changing HDL ("good") to LDL ("bad") cholesterol--and causes liver cancer in laboratory animals. Anyhoo, perhaps there is an MD or PhD on this board who is knowledgeable in this area of chlorine and it's effects. I'd like to know if I should worry about all this. I figure swimming still has to be better for you than :drink::drink: What's not going to kill us these days. . . Bottom line, there are still plenty of Emory docs who stick their kids in swimming. I'm curious too - how many eye doctors do you have? Your post makes it sound like you have more than two. Saw 5 (including 2 lacrimal, 1 retinal specialist, 1 general opth, and 1 ENT) over the past year due to my having eye surgery. :toohurt: Only the ENT was PRO-swimming.