Does anyone else see the irony in anti-big pharma, anti-vaxxer, natural and Chinese herbal medicine, anti-establishment type people who have willingly injected their skin full of a myriad of unknown sourced, unstudied and unapproved permanent pigments?
But more research is needed to determine whether this is actually a bad thing
www.smithsonianmag.com
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"Researchers examined lymph nodes and skin samples from deceased donors, four with tattoos and two that never got inked, writes Ryan F. Mandelbaum at Gizmodo. They found stained lymph nodes in two of the subjects, one with blue ink and one with green. The nodes as well as the skin showed elevated levels of metals including aluminum, chromium, iron, nickel and copper. In one of the donors nodes, cadmium and mercury, both highly toxic, were detected. The research appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
“When someone wants to get a tattoo, they are often very careful in choosing a parlor where they use sterile needles that haven’t been used previously,” Hiram Castillo-Michel, one of the study’s authors says in a press release. “No one checks the chemical composition of the colors, but our study shows that maybe they should.”
Gave up watching after a few min. 1 hr 15 min is too long. Did
the tattooed guy speak out at some point? Did he come across
as the health conscious type?