Am rather curious about some of the research suggesting potentially carcinogenic effects of tattoos as well or whether it’s Bollox. Read a little and no personal conclusions
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I've gone fairly deep into it, enough to confirm that it's absolutely terrible for health. The modern ink they use is loaded with toxins/carcinogens and they all absorb straight into your bloodstream.
Always makes me laugh when inked-up folks lecture about the dangers of vaccines, when they've gotten an even higher dose of heavy metal poisoning from tats 🫠
So there's a change in ink used?
Yup - just like everything else in the modern world, modern tattoo ink is now loaded with poison.
If you look back at ancient tribes that had lots of tattoos in their culture (the New Zealand Māori for example), they used natural inks made of natural earth elements. Now, everything is just synthetic chemicals.
well that explains it. I keep watching friends do it. I live in Costa Rica and it's really common. I always found it weird how it became such a big trend