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Health Check: why swimming in the sea is good for you
<embed> https://theconversation.com/health-check-why-swimming-in-the-sea-is-good-for-you-68583 </embed> the Conversation December 25, 2016 3.41pm EST
Historically, doctors would recommend their patients go to the seaside to improve various ills. They would actually issue prescriptions detailing exactly how long, how often and under what conditions their patients were to be in the water. Using seawater for medical purposes even has a name: thalassotherapy.
To this day, healing and spa resorts by the seaside abound. They are thought of as places where people can not only let go of their troubles but, in some cases, even cure arthritis.