{"id":88341,"date":"2026-11-12T07:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88341"},"modified":"2026-11-12T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:26:50","slug":"tattoos-affect-your-immune-system-in-ways-scientists-are-only-beginning-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/tattoos-affect-your-immune-system-in-ways-scientists-are-only-beginning-to-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways Scientists Are Only Beginning to Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>ScienceAlert<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Humans have been tattooing themselves for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/otzi-the-iceman-had-way-more-tattoos-than-you\">thousands of years<\/a>, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breathtaking-tattoos-revealed-on-peruvian-mummies-from-1200-years-ago\">spiritual,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stunning-tattoos-discovered-on-siberian-mummy-from-2000-years-ago\">cultural<\/a>, or personal reasons. But while history can tell us much about the culture of tattooing, we still don&#8217;t know much about how the practice affects our health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introducing tattoo pigment into the skin triggers an immune response, and that ink obviously sticks around \u2013 though it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dkfz.de\/en\/clinical-epidemiology-of-early-cancer-detection\/tattoo-ink\">doesn&#8217;t always stay put<\/a>.\u00a0 Research shows that particles of tattoo ink can enter the lymphatic system and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tattoo-mimics-cancer-of-the-lymph-nodes-15-years-later\">build up in the lymph nodes<\/a>. Lymph nodes are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-research-challenges-long-standing-method-for-treating-cancer\">key hubs<\/a> of our bodies&#8217; immune activity. Full of white blood cells, lymph fluid is filtered through them to clean out any debris it&#8217;s collected on the way around your body. That includes misbehaving cells (i.e. cancer), bacteria, viruses, and foreign substances such as tattoo ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ScienceAlert: Humans have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for spiritual, cultural, or personal reasons. But while history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}