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Tattoo Ink, Lymph Nodes & Vax Response
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Tattoo Ink, Lymph Nodes & Vax Response
I just finished a podcast that looked at a new 2025 study (Capucetti et al., PNAS) showing that tattoo ink doesn’t just sit harmlessly in the skin. In the mouse model, pigments migrated to the nearest lymph node, kicked off low-grade inflammation and actually altered the immune response to vaccines. 😳
A few snippets that struck me:
Tattoo inks are less regulated than food dyes, and food dyes are already a low bar.
Black and certain vibrant pigments contain nanoparticles of carbon black, titanium dioxide, or azo dyes that your immune system flags as “forever visitors.”
Lymph-node activation was still measurable weeks later, long after the tattoo healed on the surface.
Separate human autopsy studies have confirmed pigment particles accumulate in nodes, but no one has tied that to vaccine effectiveness until now.
Full paper for the science nerds ➜ https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2510392122
I’ve always been needle-averse, so tattoos were never on my radar.
But ink culture is totally mainstream, why do some never think twice about the ingredients in that ink 🤔
Ink & immunity: If you have tattoos, would these findings make you rethink future work?
Highlight the risk and give pèople real informed consent : What’s the best way to share this info without sounding like a killjoy?
Parallels to the jab debate: Do you see the same “don’t want to look” mindset here?
Curious to hear if anyone in this forum has tackled pigment safety, switched to plant-based inks, or even had lymph-node biopsies post-tattoo. No shaming …just looking at the science most never see when they sit in that chair. 💬👇
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Tattoo ink is harmful contributing to increased risk of heart disease stroke cancer and more. I tell all patients to not get more or get small meaningful ones. We remove heavy metals like those given in vax using IV chelation. We can lower a heart plaque calcium score by up to 95%. Best, Dr. R. Cruz
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