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sleepyguy • today at 2:23 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Your auto-immune system does not like ink.


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yahthatsart • today at 3:09 AM

You don't have an "auto-immune system". Auto-immune means your immune system is attacking your own healthy cells.

Tattoos are fine. There's some evidence that maybe, maybe, immune system responses can be impacted by tattoos. But changes in immune system response does not necessarily mean impaired or negative.

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