Could Swimming Cause Your Thyroid To Slowdown?

According to Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., author of The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology, "The chlorine added to swimming pools absorbs into skin and circulates to the thyroid, where it can hinder the gland's output of the energizing hormone thyroxine." So are you never to swim again? No, he just recommends that you soak in an Epsom salts bath after you take a dip since the magnesium in Epsom salts blocks chlorine from entering the bloodstream, keeping it away from your thyroid. Or, alternatively, you could take Ashwagandha. This herb helps convert thyroxine into triiodothyronine (T3) the most powerful thyroid hormone, which affects almost every process in the body, including temperature, growth, and heart rate.