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Showering is toxic ☣️

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Most people filter their drinking water and never think about what they’re absorbing in the shower. The exposure gap between the two is significant. 🔬

Chlorine is added to municipal water to kill bacteria, but it doesn’t stop reacting when it contacts your body. 🧬

In a hot shower, three things happen simultaneously that drinking water simply can’t replicate.

⚡ Why shower exposure is higher than drinking:
→ Heat opens pores, increasing dermal absorption directly into tissue
→ Steam carries chlorine into the lungs with every breath
→ Full body surface exposure vs a limited digestive pathway

The byproduct that matters most is trihalomethanes, or THMs. 🧠

These form when chlorine reacts with organic matter in water and are classified as probable human carcinogens. Research has linked regular THM exposure to bladder cancer risk, respiratory irritation, and skin barrier disruption over time.

The compounding effect of daily hot showers adds up in a way that most people never account for in their health protocols. 📉

You filter what you drink. You’re not filtering what your skin and lungs absorb every morning.

💧 The fix is straightforward:
→ A carbon shower filter removes 90%+ of chlorine and most THMs
→ Installs in seconds with no tools → Costs a fraction of a water filter
→ Lasts 6 to 12 months depending on usage

This is one of the lowest effort, highest leverage environmental changes available. ⚠️

What you absorb matters as much as what you consume. 🎯

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cool... i googled and it says ocean water is healthy when absorbed through the body.

i don't really feel good drinking chlorine tap water. i don't know if times when i showered less or been in areas with out chlorinated water and showering if it felt any better. i definitely can't stay hydrated on tap water with chlorine. too much makes me sick. a cup is fine.
 
Why no mention of fluoride?

I grew up with the option to drink well water or tap water. I thought our tap water was horrible due to the fact it came out of the local river. After moving around the country I was surprised to discover our tap water was much better than the tap water available in other places. The city I lived in by the coast had such horrible water than you could feel a film of crap on your skin and hair after a shower and it smelled liked sulfur. It was so bad no one would drink it. There were potable water vending machines all over the place and I had to fill up 10-15 1 gallon milk jugs every week which we used to cook with, brush our teeth and make tea/coffee.

Anyway, growing up it was obvious that the tap water was terrible and the well water tasted much better. When I went to friends houses I always refused to drink the tap water or anything prepared with it. You could taste all the stuff it was treated with. I was happy when we built a new house and I no longer had to bathe in it even though the well was full of sediment which led to the hot water heater being half full of dirt. We had to change filters all of the time to keep it out of the lines. Every few months you'd turn on the tap and that old red clay would come pouring out. That's how you knew it was time to install a new filter. You got about 5 minutes of hot water then it would come pouring in ice cold even in the summer. Always laughed when guests would shower at our house. They'd always come back shivering.

Your skin is your largest organ. You take in stuff through it constantly. Works the other way to. It's why you sweat so much when you're detoxing and sick. Your body is trying to get rid of all the crap in your system through your skin. If you fast for longer than a few days you'll smell horrible because all the crap stored up in you fat starts to come out of your skin. Every time I fast on about day 5-6 the entire house will stink after I take a shower. It's so bad I can smell it even after I get used to it. If I leave the house for awhile and return it's fucking rank.
 
live in the country and am not hooked up to any municipal water system. We have our own well so we have no worry about anything added to it at all. But we do have to worry about it getting really low some summers. Also theres the worry about contamination like e choli
 
Axemancometh said:
I already know all about this; that is why I have not showered in over ten years
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I think you were standing next to me at a Dead concert in 1980. I remember you!

Eh, I always views showering as a "baptism" each time I take one and clean off the vibes on me. Transform the bad to the good. Even Chlorine. People worry about a lot of stuff.

I do not however drink the water from the house. Never ever do that. Any plumber will tell you. Forget those useless filters too.
I get my drinking water from a natural spring a mile from my home. Going there shortly. Some nice trails behind there I need to explore.

I view this as EMF info. Remember people were worried about power lines? Now in 2026 people are bathed in many different types of EMF's. can't get away.

Also I always felt psychedelics counteracted anything that fluoride was said to take away. I just had a friend that would not stop over fluoride. That was all I could tell him. He was big on the topic.
 
As long as you have your skin, you aren’t going to absorb too much chlorine.

If this is a significant risk, I would bet you could find epidemiological data of say bladder cancer rates increasing in each population that chlorinates their water, or some other issue, right?
 
JackARoe said:
I think you were standing next to me at a Dead concert in 1980. I remember you!

Eh, I always views showering as a "baptism" each time I take one and clean off the vibes on me. Transform the bad to the good. Even Chlorine. People worry about a lot of stuff.

I do not however drink the water from the house. Never ever do that. Any plumber will tell you. Forget those useless filters too.
I get my drinking water from a natural spring a mile from my home. Going there shortly. Some nice trails behind there I need to explore.

I view this as EMF info. Remember people were worried about power lines? Now in 2026 people are bathed in many different types of EMF's. can't get away.

Also I always felt psychedelics counteracted anything that fluoride was said to take away. I just had a friend that would not stop over fluoride. That was all I could tell him. He was big on the topic.
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I don't think you should be concerned about tap water bro, unless you live in Mexico or something.

We're very lucky to live in first-world nations where we have access to clean drinking water out of nearly every faucet. If you are worried about mind control from the water then you are worried about the wrong consumable!

The EMF thing is another case. I have a game for you! Talk to somebody who has never heard about the buzz around power lines or radio waves, see if they have ever felt any ill from their effects; then come back a week later - they will suddenly be sick!

The mind is incredibly impressionable. People used to complain about windmills in their neighbourhoods only after being told about their bad effects!
 
so you consider water laced with meth, chemotherapy, birth control, and zoloft clean? fascinating.
 
donotdothis said:
so you consider water laced with meth, chemotherapy, birth control, and zoloft clean? fascinating.
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Clean by comparison not clean.....

if you weren't you I would suspect this is a product shill -- may help a little but I agree with skorpio here "Peptides" alone is a redflag add "Optimization" to the mix and you lose me (This is kind of ad hom about the guy not the claim admittedly)

@donotdothis Do swimmers have a significantly higher race of cancer? Never heard that one -- also am not a big swimmer though
 
Kellsee said:
wtf bruh hearts and thumbs up?! People will think I’m retarded

Laugh with me lol

Oh yeah I forgot I’m off topic my bad lol sorry
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I was laughing with you -- sorry my emoji game dropped off in like 02' lol

I was giving the joke a thumbs up --- not agreeing with it as a statement.

See the laughing emoji I have been messaged about --- mod messaged even --- why you laughing at me? "Some of those are laughing with you!!"

ps -- nothing for the only bathing with peptides to optimize longevity? Cmon that was a good one
 
Haha I wondered if that’s not where you were coming from lol that was a good one

Like when someone’s made a thread cause they worried about the dirt they got on their meth pipe😂

They be like “you think it’ll hurt me”

I be like “nah it’ll make it good for you”

I hate how my sense of humor gets lost in text lol you never know if it’s gonna come across correctly
 
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