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Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways We're Only Beginning to Understand
(www.sciencealert.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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I have. A few actually. The most that came from it was learning I had celiac disease. Other than that, all teats have come back normal. It sucks. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Well that is kind of a big deal lol. You may already know all this but celiac causes malnutrition as well as direct symptoms.
Iron deficiency from gut malabsorption can cause pretty significant fatigue, malaise, mood issues, and other problems. The criteria for determining what is considered iron deficiency have recently changed as well so that a LOT more people are considered deficient compared to before, and not all docs are up to date yet. Assuming you're an otherwise healthy person, you'd probably want to have a ferritin (iron stores) of at least 50 ng/mL but ideally around 100 ng/mL if you're symptomatic. There are several other vitamins that are commonly deficient in celiac as well.
Naa man... it's the tattoos lol
This article needs to die, it was a shit study and on mice no less.
tbf there does seem to be some immune system weirdness with tattoos and if you're already in a higher than normal inflammatory state because you have an untreated autoimmune disease like celiac, maybe it could make you feel like shit at least in the short term. idk
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26940693/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41289395/
I want a tattoo but paused my decision after learning that getting a tattoo causes inflammation and that this has a significant chance of causing flare ups in people with psoriasis. I have psoriasis. I also have other health conditions and should avoid inflammatory triggers in general. Sucks. I only want a very small tattoo, though, so we'll see. Maybe someday.
%100 can see that, but these articles keep coming up like they've nailed down that people with tattoos are more sick than people without. Which is a correlation doesn't equate cause....and everyone is running with it now.
Thank god.