Getting Tattoos Is Good For Your Health

Next time someone asks you what you'll think of your tattoos when your 90 say, "well, I can thank these tattoos for getting me to 90!" A new study says that getting multiple tattoos is actually GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!

Sorry mom, my obsession just got bigger! Research suggests that getting multiple tattoos strengthens your immune system. According to the research done by the University of Alabama, "Tattooing may stimulate the immune system in a manner similar to a vaccination to be less susceptible to future pathogenic inﬁltration."

Christopher Lynn, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama who co-authored the study, wrote in a press release. "According to the researchers, the saliva samples from first-time tattoo recipients showed their levels of *immunoglobulin A declined much more dramatically than they did for the people who already had multiple tattoos, suggesting that people with more "tattoo experience" had immune systems that were more habituated to that kind of stress."

*Immunoglobulin A - a front line of defense against some of the common infections we encounter, like cold*

So, does that mean we can get away from the stigma that having tattoos is a bad thing?? I mean, obviously this is why we are calling into work less!