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Originally Posted by xepherys
Do you have some medical background for this? I don't believe this for a variety of reasons:
a) There are a ton of things in your body right now that are not "natural" to it. Do you drink pop (soda)? You don't think all of that caramel coloring is bad for your stomach? It stains it. It's "unnatural" and therefore toxic? Toxic is not ANYTHING unnatural. That's a misled definition.
b) How does it toxify your blood? Tattoo artists... in the US at least, use NON-TOXIC ink. If it's non-toxic, how does it become toxic? Citric acid is toxic to your body, but oranges and lemons aren't "bad" for you. *boggle*
I'm curious how people come up with these facts. Then again, the internet helps that a lot. Some anti-tat quack (or any other type of quack) makes a "professional statement" and it suddenly becomes fact. Curious...
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The first thing I will say is if you dont believe me then consult the medical reseaarch literature. It will back up what I said.
Your first point about unatural equalling poison is premature. Just because something is unatural doesnt mean its unhealthy just the same as a natural thing isnt necessarily healthy. All you example have to do with the digestive system. First of all the digestive system has inbuilt defensive mechanisms to help protect the body from ingested poisons. This can be through taste (most poisons taste bitter which is why most people dont like that taste) to the body realising it isnt right and flushing it right through the system whilst digesting it at a minimum amount. The stomache also has an abumndance of industrial stregnth acids to break everything down with which can be used to hopefully limit the effectiveness of ingested poisons. Further more the body once senses a poison in the system launches its immune system into full affect trying to combat the effects. This can mean vomiting or increasing heart rate (oxygen counteracts almost every natural poison) or even just trying to fight the actual poison like any other foreign matter. The skin doesnt have such defences. After all the skin is the bodys first defence against infection. The blood has limited defence because the immune system can help it by sending more white blood cells (to fight it) ,clotting and restricting the valves (slow down the spread of the poison). Even whilst using "non toxic ink" the body still interprets this as a foreign element in the system ande attempts to get rid of it. Further more something is toxic when it is a foregn element in the body which harms the systems. Ink is a foregn substance in the skin and blood. It does significantly increas the chance of getting various forms of cancer and it does disrupt the normal functioning of the body because of the supposed threat. That means the ink from a tatto is toxic. The body does what ever it takes to survive. The way people come up with these "facts"(as you put it) is by doing empiracle research and then having it peer reviewed from publication in an accademic journal. If something is a 'quack result' then it will be refuted by the bulk of corresponding literature in the accademic circles. Do the research and get back to me.