Chlorine and Hairloss

[Redbone]

I recently went to hairclub for men and they offered a package similar to Avacor and Nioxin. It cost about $2500 per year which is stupid. In the kit they included a showern water filter that got out all of the Chlorine and other impurities in the water.

Does anyone have any information about Chlorine accelerating baldness? Is it in fact bad for thinning hair? Would a shower filter help?

 

[bombscience]

tell them to f*** off. that is rediculous. do you see every professional swimmer or diver being bald? hell no.

Second, for less than $250 a year you could get on a proven program. Seriously tell them to f*** off, it pisses me off when I hear that they take advantage of people who are upset about thier hairloss.

 

[shivs]

You tell em Bomb! :rockon: :rockon:

 

[Redbone]

yeah and when I told the classy dressed up sales b**ch that I could not afford it she said "we do take credit cards" .

 

[Axon]

To me, that simply sounds like they need a way to justify charging you so much money.

They operate under the assumption that you don't know sh*t. Then they attempt to prey on your ignorance by selling you products that sound plausible but are not in any way relevant.

Furthermore, they're clearly acknowledging how effective the proven treatments are if they're trying to sell you something similar to Avacor. No matter how many ludicrous posts you read on these sites, the fact remains that the best method of treating male pattern baldness is to use the proven treatments in conjunction.

You hit the internal cause and apply external stimuli to your follicles. You create optimal scalp conditions by using two or three proven shampoos.

No system or scheme is more effective. Period.

 

[Redbone]

Yup, thats right. They had all this crap about 9 products, two shampoos you use right after one another, a mineral topical, a pill to swallow and some 2% minoxidil and some other things- Sigh sperling sucks....... :smoke:

 

[Grantspots]

I grew up in So. Cal. with a swimming pool. Along with the green hair I had EVERY year come first day of school, I now learn it contributed to my hairloss.

That's it - no more swimming for me....

jerry grant

 

[bombscience]

wimp

 

[Grantspots]

So you pulled an 11 this week - don't get cocky now....

It's a long season.

-jg

 

[bombscience]

So you pulled an 11 this week - don't get cocky now....

It's a long season.

-jg

yeah still pissed that the patriots, dolphins, AND rams lost... i thought they were shoe-ins

 

[mariejoe]

Actually, those natural health people DO believe that chlorine can make hair loss worse. My hairdresser has a client who added a filter to the showerhead, with positive results. No other thing changed in their regimen, so we can assume non-chlorinated water helps.
She suggested I get one. So far, too cheap and lazy.
I tell you one thing, I WILL NOT drink tap water, I have a filter on the kitchen tap.

Some people aren't affected by chlorine, some are.

 

[Axon]

Yup, thats right. They had all this crap about 9 products, two shampoos you use right after one another, a mineral topical, a pill to swallow and some 2% minoxidil and some other things- Sigh sperling sucks....... :smoke:

Not a bad plan, but you can get it for $300 a year, as opposed to $2500 a session, however long that may be.

Get on finasteride/Min/nizoral.

 

[Axon]

I'm fairly skeptical that using non-chloronated water would suddenly allow me to grow all my hair back.

If it does do something, it probably doesn't do much.

 

[mariejoe]

It wouldn't grow hair. It would make conditions more favorable, for some. Also, it would really depend how much chllorine is in your city's water system.

I live in the area that is served by the Detroit Water System. Some days, the water stinks of chlorine. That's why I don't drink it--I have a PUR tap filter..
Brooklyn's water may be less chlorine-y.
I'm sure it's not worth the $$$ of a shower filter.

 

[Redbone]

Yeah, I have one I got at Home depot for $20. It does seem to decrease water pressure which sucks. The water in my home is so hard it leaves rust stains on the toilet even with tide D bowl in place. That is why I got the filter.

I think it works... my family has a beutifal inground pool that I refuse to swim in anymore. Well at least dunk my head under.

 

[GourmetStyleWellness]

I drink filtered tap water

I won't even drink filtered tap water. Not after watching "Erin Brokovitch". How many terminal diseases like leukemia appear out of nowhere and doctors don't have the slightest clue as to where they came from? Did you see how many common diseases these people got from contaminated water.... and how many of those diseases are diseases people get that doctors don't know the source of?

Its a longshot, but after 30 years of drinking city water with "acceptable levels" of trace contaminants in it, how impossible is it that water contaminants might not eventually lead to the same diseases seen by these people, drinking the same water, with higher levels of the same contaminants?

I drink nothing but bottled water when im out and about, and have Arrowhead bring me 5 gallon jugs every two weeks.

gourmetstylewellness.com

 

[chr1s]

Sorry for necroing this old thread, but I've been researching this forum and came accross this one and felt compelled to add my 2 cents as I am currently searching for a shower filter and wondering about a few brands.

First of all you people should know that Chlorine was initially used as a toxic gas in World War 1. Chlorine's primary purpose in our drinking water is to kill off bacteria. That's it's job, to kill and destroy living organisms. Unfortunately it can also kill some of the good ones by the time it gets to us. Would you drink 8 glasses of tap water straight out of the sink? I'm pretty sure none of you would. Well each time you take a shower, your skin drinks up about 8 glasses of water.

Will the Chlorine levels in your drinking water kill you? probably not. Is it the root cause of thinning hair/baldness? Probably not because thinning hair is caused by so many factors and variables that it is hard to say. Can showering in filtered water improve the quality of your hair? It probably can to a certain degree I don't see why not.

Also, you people need to take into account that the pipes in your shower may be different than that of your sink. I might be going off in this thread, but I am just appalled at the search results I looked at for "chlorine" and "shower filter" on this forum. I can't believe how so many people on this forum totally dismiss the fact that unfiltered shower/sink water can harm your skin and hair.

Anyways, I have just been doing research on finding the perfect shower filter for myself. Even if it won't improve the quality of my hair(which I know it will), I will still use it regardless after reading about the endless array of chemicals and toxins that are present in our water system. I don't want to trust my health in the hands of city employees whom I have no idea what they're doing. Not to mention Bush dropped the bar lower on allowing higher levels of arsenic to flood our drinking water. The federal standard was much higher and tighter under Clinton.

 

[RAKBS]

If chlorine causes hair loss, shouldn't it affect the growth of body hair too...?

 

[squeegee]

Chlorine doesn't cause baldness..you guys are drama sometimes lol :sobbing:

 

[Fanjeera]

Only DHT makes males totally bald.