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Drinking, Bathing or Swimming in Chlorinated Water May Increase Your Risk of Bladder Cancer

Chlorinated water may increase your risk of bladder cancer, whether you drink it, bathe in it or swim in it, according to a study of over 1,000 people. The study is the first to support what I have been saying for some time: that chemicals in water are not only harmful when ingested, but also when they are absorbed through the skin or inhaled.

In fact, this new study found that swimming and showering in chlorinated water may be even worse than drinking it. While study participants who drank chlorinated water had a 35 percent greater risk of bladder cancer than those who didn’t, those who swam in chlorinated pools had a 57 percent greater risk. Meanwhile, those who took longer showers or baths in areas with higher trihalomethanes (THM, a chlorine by-product) levels also had an increased cancer risk.

THM, while potentially dangerous when ingested, may be even more detrimental when it is absorbed through the skin or lungs because it does not undergo detoxification via the liver.

While installing a reverse-osmosis filter to purify your drinking water is a good step, you could still be exposed to contaminated water when you:

  • Shower or bathe
  • Wash your hands
  • Wash laundry
  • Rinse fruits and vegetables
  • Wash dishes, glasses, and other utensils

To protect your family's good health, you should have your water professionally analyzed to find out what's in it. If it's currently safe, then having a small point-of-use filter is a nice added level of protection. But if you find contamination, you should seek expert advice as to what treatment system can remove it.

American Journal of Epidemiology January 2007, Volume 165, Number 2, Pp. 148-156

ScientificAmerican.com January 18, 2007
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The only thing that I would add is that 90 percent of the bacteria in and around your body are vitally beneficial and necessary for you. Chlorine, like an antibiotic, destroys the good bacteria outside your body and in your gut when it is taken-in through unfiltered drinking / showering water. Chlorine can also be credited for:

- Eating through lead pipes.

- Corroding many types of metals.

- Harming cells and DNA of every living organism it comes into contact with.

Chlorine, like the article states above, also introduces to our water supply some highly carcinogenic chemicals called trihalomethanes (THM’s). Other recent studies have also show a strong link between chlorinated water supplies with elevated THM levels and cancers of the bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, GI tract, urinary tract, colon, and brain. Since chlorine eats though lead pipes, imagine what it's doing to your arteries! It's scaring them, of course, while contributing to heart disease.
 
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You will find some interesting new areas of biotech-transport delivery systems that are using nano-scale technology to offer something different.

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There are some new areas that are being proven both clinically and also away from the biased FDA who control many substances for their own benefits of the big 10 drug companies.

The MIMURA is able to deal with all minerals, metals and substances dissolved in the water (THMs) and all.

 
            
 
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For 6 years I have used Chlorfree-AquaSmart in the pool of the house I avoid the chemicals and reduce the chlorine a 90% ChlorFree helps me to eliminate the bacteria and virus by a system of low waterproof ionization cost and easy to use maintains to the water of the clean pool and of a healthy color. you can visit their webpage at: www.ChlorFree-AquaSmart.com to obtain more information about this wonderful solution.

 
            
 
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I have believed for some time that one of the main causes of an increase in incidence of skin cancer may have been the historically more recent practice of swimming in chlorinated swimming pools. ... So too, ..what biological and chemical interaction takes place when you combine repeated exposure of the skin to immersion in chlorinated water along with exposure to solar radiation? ... I suspect there may be something to this.

 
            
 
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