Is chlorine eating your body from the inside?
All municipal tap water in the U.S. has chlorine (in addition to lots of other chemicals). The water you bathe in is chlorinated. The water in your hot tub, swimming pool, sauna and steambath have even more chlorine. Warm water opens your skin's pores and allows chlorine to enter. Warm water also turns to gas (steam) and is inhaled. Chlorinated steam enters your lungs, where your blood picks it up and delivers it to your entire body. Scary!
Chlorine kills microbes. Is it also killing you?
If you've ever swum in a chlorinated pool, especially a public one, you'll remember how dry and itchy your skin and scalp felt afterwards. That's the reason people rinse off with a shower after swimming. You may be getting even more chlorine from the steam in your shower than you get from a swimming pool.
Chlorine is added to public water supplies and pools because it kills bacteria and algae. However, the killing process isn't as clean as you've been led to believe. While it kills organisms, it produces disinfection by-products (DBPs), including dioxins, haloactic acids and trihalomethanes (THMs), which are known carcinogens. If you are exposed to enough steam from chlorinated water or its chemical by-products, you could suffer from immune disorders, blood problems, heart dysfunction and respiratory ailments. No one knows how much is too much. It's different for every man, woman, child and animal!
Besides killing microbes, chlorine also destroys or disrupts other things. For instance, it hardens your arteries, destroys the proteins in your body, irritates your sinuses, and can aggravate allergies and asthma.
Chloroform is another deadly by-product of chlorine. It causes cell mutation and creates free radicals. These two are responsible for cancers and a full range of illnesses because your body's immune system cannot fight the constant, daily assault of chlorine being dumped into your body by liquid or gas means.
Other health issues are caused by other chlorine by-products, such as dichloro acetic acid (disrupts cholesterol metabolism), which causes liver cancer. Or, (Z)-2-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-4-oxobutenoic acid (commonly called MX), which mutates DNA and can cause cancer. According to a 1991 article in U.S. News & World Report, 9% of all bladder cancers and 15% of all rectal cancers in the U.S. are directly caused by consuming chlorinated water!
How to avoid chlorine
A number of chlorine filters are available for the shower, your kitchen tap, your swimming pool or your entire home's water supply. How much you want to spend depends on how big a job you want done.
Check out the possibilities at the following websites:
Mr. Water Filter
Health Masters
Ion Life (my favorite!)
I like Ion Life best because it also delivers alkalline water, which is the ideal water for humans (dogs, cats and other carnivorous animals should NOT drink alkaline water!).
Part of the research for this article came from the above websites.
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I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
"Let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
Chlorine kills microbes. Is it also killing you?
If you've ever swum in a chlorinated pool, especially a public one, you'll remember how dry and itchy your skin and scalp felt afterwards. That's the reason people rinse off with a shower after swimming. You may be getting even more chlorine from the steam in your shower than you get from a swimming pool.
Chlorine is added to public water supplies and pools because it kills bacteria and algae. However, the killing process isn't as clean as you've been led to believe. While it kills organisms, it produces disinfection by-products (DBPs), including dioxins, haloactic acids and trihalomethanes (THMs), which are known carcinogens. If you are exposed to enough steam from chlorinated water or its chemical by-products, you could suffer from immune disorders, blood problems, heart dysfunction and respiratory ailments. No one knows how much is too much. It's different for every man, woman, child and animal!
Besides killing microbes, chlorine also destroys or disrupts other things. For instance, it hardens your arteries, destroys the proteins in your body, irritates your sinuses, and can aggravate allergies and asthma.
Chloroform is another deadly by-product of chlorine. It causes cell mutation and creates free radicals. These two are responsible for cancers and a full range of illnesses because your body's immune system cannot fight the constant, daily assault of chlorine being dumped into your body by liquid or gas means.
Other health issues are caused by other chlorine by-products, such as dichloro acetic acid (disrupts cholesterol metabolism), which causes liver cancer. Or, (Z)-2-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-4-oxobutenoic acid (commonly called MX), which mutates DNA and can cause cancer. According to a 1991 article in U.S. News & World Report, 9% of all bladder cancers and 15% of all rectal cancers in the U.S. are directly caused by consuming chlorinated water!
How to avoid chlorine
A number of chlorine filters are available for the shower, your kitchen tap, your swimming pool or your entire home's water supply. How much you want to spend depends on how big a job you want done.
Check out the possibilities at the following websites:
Mr. Water Filter
Health Masters
Ion Life (my favorite!)
I like Ion Life best because it also delivers alkalline water, which is the ideal water for humans (dogs, cats and other carnivorous animals should NOT drink alkaline water!).
Part of the research for this article came from the above websites.
I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
posted by Edith Gaylord | 9:15 AM
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