Great article. I wish we could make it required reading in high school health class. I doubt most people know the extent of risks before getting their first tattoo.
Agreed. Tattoos are especially toxic since they interfere with the bodies' ability to absorb and regulate light signals from the environment + increased absorption of EMF potentially.
Laugher is the best medicine, truly...thanks for taking a look and appreciating (: My wife is a huge Monty Python fan. If not for her, I'd be a stick in the mud.
I never understood why any sane person would get a tattoo. Still don't. Great article explaining why no one should. I also have never seen a tattoo I would consider to be aesthetically pleasing. They're ugly.
And the Bible says not to cut or put marks on our body. Saw a video of a guy who died and Jesus wouldn't accept him! He came back to tell the story. Hopefully he had them removed. Whatever you believe, not getting them is the wiser choice. Won't catch diseases from contaminated and un sterilized equipment. Won't look stupid when skin sags in old age. Won't waste money on getting them.
What possesses people to cover their bodies with toxic ink? Are they trying to disguise who they really are, or enhance their appearance for the attention of others? Whichever they are attempting to achieve, it’s not working.
What possesses people to eat toxic food, stay in toxic relationships, go to a toxic workplace every day, use toxic products, etc etc? Some people like they way they look, maybe want to memorialize something, or just want to be different.
Ironic, coming from a doctor that practiced plastic surgery and helped adjust people's physical appearances doing procedures on their bodies that probably were more dangerous than tattoo ink..
FYI: they're actually have been studies on tattoo and ink trying to prove or disprove whether or not they help the immune response in a positive or
"After what I have read and considered, I have concluded Dr. Khan is right and I am wrong. In my defense, my peers and the professional organizations all supported breast implant surgery, and I could only do what I understood then. I still believe that the through-the-umbilicus saline implants I used were the safest ones ever offered. These have the advantage of rarely producing a "hematoma," which is bleeding around the implant. This decreases the chances of capsule (scar) formation.
My followers have watched me change my mind many times over the past four years. It has been agonizing for me."
Robert Yoho, MD
iteration isn't just for AI. Professionals are usually very poor at it. Especially in my profession law, and your profession, medicine. I went from representing the scum that rises to the top, to working below minimum wage or pro bono to defend debtors against bankers.
We have all lived a life in the big lie that George Carlin talked about. Smart ones figure it out. Most don't.
I'll go with the MD who knows skin and a plastic surgeon KNOWS the epidermis better than anyone. I couldn't be happier to get Yoho 's research. I've ALWAYS disliked body ink thinking it was UGLY but now I have even more reasons to scorn it.
Google is not relying on a valid search engine. The results of such a search are skewed. The results are exactly what Google wants you to see, not a complete result
You can get into Pubmed and National/ international pubs data bank using Google.. I was merely pointing that out/ it's easy for ANYONE to find all studies from reputable research publications with a computer search engine tool.. Google or otherwise
There's a world of difference between putting toxic poisons into, not just your skin, but all of the organs in your body, and doing plastic surgery! Not even close! You must have some pretty impressive tatoos to say that. Think of something else to justify it. Psychosis is one of the symptoms of the ink poisoning in the brain, you know
People change throughout their lives. They begin to understand that they were on the wrong path, and change direction. God forgives all, but humans don’t seem to have that capacity, unless they put a lot of thought and effort into it.
It's iconic of being an American and when Americans are abroad it signals to foreigners to not be alone with them and to lock away their possessions and watch their watch and wallet or purse and be ready to fight to defend themselves.
People that are not comfortable in the body God created, have a real problem. My remembrance of the 20th century, was the majority of tattoos were on the bodies of sailors or bikers. 99% of the remainder of people had no need for them. I respect the people that feel they are beautiful in the skin they were born with, not one a tattoo artist created… PERIOD
A very informative article that backs up the intuitive belief of many natural life individuals. Why degrade the body? I can't imagine the toxicity of individuals who have inked their entire bodies.
American, here, and living 43 years in Japan where many public baths still prohibit anyone from entering who has tattoos. Long seen as a marker of the Yakuza crime syndicate, it is also seen as a mark of low caste, perhaps indentured. The last time I visited the U.S. was about 3 years ago, and I don't think it is just my acculturation to Japan that repulsed me to the proliferation of tattoos even among young students.
Excellent article and yet another warning call to people who seem hell-bent on taking down their health from any angle possible. At least this problem is self-inflicted and avoidable to those who are paying attention. Here's an idea for something far more harmful and inescapable for everyone, requiring no government mandates and attracting no attention from MAHA:
Fragrances. Sound innocuous? Want to talk about an industry that's unregulated? Nothing beats the fragrance industry as it's almost entirely based on the "honor system". There's absolutely no escape: everyone using them (including most of the people reading this) force it on you. This is not like food, which are delivered in boluses a few times a day and at least have to go through the GI and liver. The exposure from fragrances are delivered straight to your blood stream 24/7/365, especially if you use fragranced dryer sheets. Think you can make yourself safe by simply stopping their use? They'll keep off-gassing from your clothes and in your house for months to years, even if you stop using them and you can no longer smell them. Your olfactory senses have long been desensitized to them.
Here's an AlterAI introduction:
Here’s your one-page “Fragrance Regulation Red Pill” summary — clear, airtight, and perfect for sharing with anyone who still believes scented products are harmless:
🧴 The Fragrance Regulation Red Pill
What You Smell Might Be Slowly Poisoning You
🚨 The Core Problem
Nearly all commercial fragrances—in shampoos, dryer sheets, air fresheners, candles, and cleaning sprays—are complex chemical cocktails. Yet under U.S. law, companies can list every one of them under the single word “fragrance” or “parfum.”
That’s not a loophole—it’s a regulatory black hole.
The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) exempts fragrance from ingredient disclosure. Manufacturers are legally shielded from listing any of the hundreds of chemicals used, claiming them as trade secrets. This means consumers, doctors, and regulators don’t know what is actually being inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
🧪 Hidden Toxins in “Fragrance”
Independent labs have identified hundreds of substances that appear in common scented goods, including:
Phthalates – endocrine disruptors linked to infertility, birth defects, and developmental disorders.
Synthetic musks – persistent bioaccumulators that build up in human tissue and breast milk.
Allergens & sensitizers – compounds responsible for the spike in chemical sensitivity and migraines.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) – turn homes into low-level gas chambers that mimic “fresh scent.”
These mixtures off-gas continuously into indoor air, cling to fabrics, and combine with ozone to form new toxic byproducts. Dryer sheet exhaust is one of the major unregulated sources of residential air pollution.
⚖️ The “Honor System” in Action
The fragrance industry is overseen not by the FDA or EPA, but by its own lobby group—the International Fragrance Association (IFRA). IFRA writes its own “safety standards” and performs no independent safety testing. Participation is voluntary; violations carry no penalties whatsoever. The FDA does not require companies to prove fragrance safety before products hit the market.
In short: chemical secrecy masquerading as consumer protection.
🏠 Why It Matters
You are likely absorbing or inhaling low-level doses of untested toxicants daily. The effects are cumulative—especially for children, pregnant women, and those with asthma or autoimmune conditions. Studies show indoor air often contains five to ten times more VOCs than outdoor air, largely due to fragranced products.
🔍 Bottom Line
Fragrance safety is built on the honor system—and corporations have repeatedly shown they deserve no such honor. You can’t make an informed choice when the information itself is hidden. Clean air starts with truth.
I guessed this long ago with simple logic: if I can smell something, it is entering my body and if I don’t know what it is made of, I consider it foreign….if I can’t figure out what the ingredients are or what they do to me, I avoid. Not hard at all!
Unfortunately your advice is 34 years too late lol. That’s when I got a tattoo. I got it because I was dared to do it while I was drunk. Obviously I obliged, I mean, how could you not.
I have red, green, white, and a little bit of black. It’s only small and I got it where the sun don’t shine. It now looks like my immune system has been trying to push it out of my skin.
To get an allergy, we have to have a first exposure which primes our body. The second exposure is when the harm happens. The titanium in the white ink may have very well been my first exposure and why I reacted to my first titanium implant. Who knows. There’s a trend in NZ where middle class women get them around 50 years old. I guess it’s part of their version of a mid life crisis.
I also know a women who had a tramp stamp tattoo that would swell up. She had a mouthful of amalgams, and too scared of the dentist to get them removed. She had quite extreme metal intoxication. She then developed breast cancer a year later. Still won’t get the amalgams removed, but jumped at the chance of getting a breast removed. Crazy. It was obvious to me that she was going to get breast cancer if her amalgam fillings weren’t removed, and it was possibly too late. It was an extreme case.
A friend got his tattoos pushed into his body with a laser, and yes, it left a scar image of the tattoo in its place, lighter in color than the rest of his skin.
Much truth here about tattoos. Yesterday I went to a specialist M.D.s office for the first time. I knew I was in dangerous territory when the young nurse that helped me had the most elaborate tattoos on both full arms in full color.
But tattoos are the least of my concerns.
My conscience tells me that there is no moral or just reason for the USA to send USA military for a direct strike on Iran now or probably ever. The USA and its leaders and its military has no just reason to do the unjust bidding of a foreign country for any reason.
_______
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
______
2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming.
From a spiritual perspective I have a book by William Suddeth called "What's Behind the Ink." Sherri Tenpenny has also done a study on the toxicity of it. This article is great with more in depth info. It has inspired me to make up a folder for my new coffee table book shelf labelled "Things Granny Was Right About."
Great article. I wish we could make it required reading in high school health class. I doubt most people know the extent of risks before getting their first tattoo.
Agreed. Tattoos are especially toxic since they interfere with the bodies' ability to absorb and regulate light signals from the environment + increased absorption of EMF potentially.
I was thinking the same thing. In fact, without such information, there is no informed consent for anyone.
"Tattoos - people trying so hard to be different, they're really all the same..."
Like the Monty Python skit "You're all different, you're all different..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
Thank you! :-) Been too long since I saw that...
Laugher is the best medicine, truly...thanks for taking a look and appreciating (: My wife is a huge Monty Python fan. If not for her, I'd be a stick in the mud.
I never understood why any sane person would get a tattoo. Still don't. Great article explaining why no one should. I also have never seen a tattoo I would consider to be aesthetically pleasing. They're ugly.
Dr. Yoho
Just letting you know that your post is very much appreciated.
And the Bible says not to cut or put marks on our body. Saw a video of a guy who died and Jesus wouldn't accept him! He came back to tell the story. Hopefully he had them removed. Whatever you believe, not getting them is the wiser choice. Won't catch diseases from contaminated and un sterilized equipment. Won't look stupid when skin sags in old age. Won't waste money on getting them.
So glad I and my two kids & hubs never jumped on the tat bandwagon! There was a time we were all tempted! Now you’re unique if you don’t have any.
Don't you just love being unique? Unique and healthy!! 😉
Wish I could attest to being unique; my teeth are inked from decades of leaching dental debris.
What possesses people to cover their bodies with toxic ink? Are they trying to disguise who they really are, or enhance their appearance for the attention of others? Whichever they are attempting to achieve, it’s not working.
What possesses people to eat toxic food, stay in toxic relationships, go to a toxic workplace every day, use toxic products, etc etc? Some people like they way they look, maybe want to memorialize something, or just want to be different.
There are many other ways to express yourself as different than permanently destroy the largest organ of your body
Good call Deb - it definitely is the largest organ, but so many people forget that, or don't even know it in the first place.
Ironic, coming from a doctor that practiced plastic surgery and helped adjust people's physical appearances doing procedures on their bodies that probably were more dangerous than tattoo ink..
FYI: they're actually have been studies on tattoo and ink trying to prove or disprove whether or not they help the immune response in a positive or
negative way.
This is my friend ha. She's brutal. See my breast implant illness post for one apology for my career. https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/265-shaher-khan-mdthe-foremost-plastic?utm_source=publication-search
The intelligent person iterates. Like you do.
"After what I have read and considered, I have concluded Dr. Khan is right and I am wrong. In my defense, my peers and the professional organizations all supported breast implant surgery, and I could only do what I understood then. I still believe that the through-the-umbilicus saline implants I used were the safest ones ever offered. These have the advantage of rarely producing a "hematoma," which is bleeding around the implant. This decreases the chances of capsule (scar) formation.
My followers have watched me change my mind many times over the past four years. It has been agonizing for me."
Robert Yoho, MD
iteration isn't just for AI. Professionals are usually very poor at it. Especially in my profession law, and your profession, medicine. I went from representing the scum that rises to the top, to working below minimum wage or pro bono to defend debtors against bankers.
We have all lived a life in the big lie that George Carlin talked about. Smart ones figure it out. Most don't.
You made a living pandering to image.
I made a living pandering to inequality.
Not anymore.
I'll go with the MD who knows skin and a plastic surgeon KNOWS the epidermis better than anyone. I couldn't be happier to get Yoho 's research. I've ALWAYS disliked body ink thinking it was UGLY but now I have even more reasons to scorn it.
Thanks Dr Yoho for spilling the beans.
Show them to us
The tattoos or the studies? Lol
It's easy to Google search them, I've had rheumatologist discussing this...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22847
Google is not relying on a valid search engine. The results of such a search are skewed. The results are exactly what Google wants you to see, not a complete result
You can get into Pubmed and National/ international pubs data bank using Google.. I was merely pointing that out/ it's easy for ANYONE to find all studies from reputable research publications with a computer search engine tool.. Google or otherwise
There's a world of difference between putting toxic poisons into, not just your skin, but all of the organs in your body, and doing plastic surgery! Not even close! You must have some pretty impressive tatoos to say that. Think of something else to justify it. Psychosis is one of the symptoms of the ink poisoning in the brain, you know
People change throughout their lives. They begin to understand that they were on the wrong path, and change direction. God forgives all, but humans don’t seem to have that capacity, unless they put a lot of thought and effort into it.
It's iconic of being an American and when Americans are abroad it signals to foreigners to not be alone with them and to lock away their possessions and watch their watch and wallet or purse and be ready to fight to defend themselves.
People that are not comfortable in the body God created, have a real problem. My remembrance of the 20th century, was the majority of tattoos were on the bodies of sailors or bikers. 99% of the remainder of people had no need for them. I respect the people that feel they are beautiful in the skin they were born with, not one a tattoo artist created… PERIOD
Now, let's discuss the weirdo nose piercings we're seeing on both women AND men nowadays.
I really have to stop myself from staring and saying to the pierced: "What the hell is THAT???"
A very informative article that backs up the intuitive belief of many natural life individuals. Why degrade the body? I can't imagine the toxicity of individuals who have inked their entire bodies.
American, here, and living 43 years in Japan where many public baths still prohibit anyone from entering who has tattoos. Long seen as a marker of the Yakuza crime syndicate, it is also seen as a mark of low caste, perhaps indentured. The last time I visited the U.S. was about 3 years ago, and I don't think it is just my acculturation to Japan that repulsed me to the proliferation of tattoos even among young students.
Excellent article and yet another warning call to people who seem hell-bent on taking down their health from any angle possible. At least this problem is self-inflicted and avoidable to those who are paying attention. Here's an idea for something far more harmful and inescapable for everyone, requiring no government mandates and attracting no attention from MAHA:
Fragrances. Sound innocuous? Want to talk about an industry that's unregulated? Nothing beats the fragrance industry as it's almost entirely based on the "honor system". There's absolutely no escape: everyone using them (including most of the people reading this) force it on you. This is not like food, which are delivered in boluses a few times a day and at least have to go through the GI and liver. The exposure from fragrances are delivered straight to your blood stream 24/7/365, especially if you use fragranced dryer sheets. Think you can make yourself safe by simply stopping their use? They'll keep off-gassing from your clothes and in your house for months to years, even if you stop using them and you can no longer smell them. Your olfactory senses have long been desensitized to them.
Here's an AlterAI introduction:
Here’s your one-page “Fragrance Regulation Red Pill” summary — clear, airtight, and perfect for sharing with anyone who still believes scented products are harmless:
🧴 The Fragrance Regulation Red Pill
What You Smell Might Be Slowly Poisoning You
🚨 The Core Problem
Nearly all commercial fragrances—in shampoos, dryer sheets, air fresheners, candles, and cleaning sprays—are complex chemical cocktails. Yet under U.S. law, companies can list every one of them under the single word “fragrance” or “parfum.”
That’s not a loophole—it’s a regulatory black hole.
The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) exempts fragrance from ingredient disclosure. Manufacturers are legally shielded from listing any of the hundreds of chemicals used, claiming them as trade secrets. This means consumers, doctors, and regulators don’t know what is actually being inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
🧪 Hidden Toxins in “Fragrance”
Independent labs have identified hundreds of substances that appear in common scented goods, including:
Phthalates – endocrine disruptors linked to infertility, birth defects, and developmental disorders.
Synthetic musks – persistent bioaccumulators that build up in human tissue and breast milk.
Allergens & sensitizers – compounds responsible for the spike in chemical sensitivity and migraines.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) – turn homes into low-level gas chambers that mimic “fresh scent.”
These mixtures off-gas continuously into indoor air, cling to fabrics, and combine with ozone to form new toxic byproducts. Dryer sheet exhaust is one of the major unregulated sources of residential air pollution.
⚖️ The “Honor System” in Action
The fragrance industry is overseen not by the FDA or EPA, but by its own lobby group—the International Fragrance Association (IFRA). IFRA writes its own “safety standards” and performs no independent safety testing. Participation is voluntary; violations carry no penalties whatsoever. The FDA does not require companies to prove fragrance safety before products hit the market.
In short: chemical secrecy masquerading as consumer protection.
🏠 Why It Matters
You are likely absorbing or inhaling low-level doses of untested toxicants daily. The effects are cumulative—especially for children, pregnant women, and those with asthma or autoimmune conditions. Studies show indoor air often contains five to ten times more VOCs than outdoor air, largely due to fragranced products.
🔍 Bottom Line
Fragrance safety is built on the honor system—and corporations have repeatedly shown they deserve no such honor. You can’t make an informed choice when the information itself is hidden. Clean air starts with truth.
thanks prob deserves a post
shaving cream
emolients
all P and G products
Wow. That's a shame. I have quite a collection. Rarely wear them anymore.
I guessed this long ago with simple logic: if I can smell something, it is entering my body and if I don’t know what it is made of, I consider it foreign….if I can’t figure out what the ingredients are or what they do to me, I avoid. Not hard at all!
How ‘bout those wholesome, farm-to-table chefs covered in tats??? Does that not reek of the ultimate irony?
It always seemed obvious to me. The ink is a permanent irritant. The body tries to get rid of foreign matter. Permanent state of frustration.
Unfortunately your advice is 34 years too late lol. That’s when I got a tattoo. I got it because I was dared to do it while I was drunk. Obviously I obliged, I mean, how could you not.
I have red, green, white, and a little bit of black. It’s only small and I got it where the sun don’t shine. It now looks like my immune system has been trying to push it out of my skin.
To get an allergy, we have to have a first exposure which primes our body. The second exposure is when the harm happens. The titanium in the white ink may have very well been my first exposure and why I reacted to my first titanium implant. Who knows. There’s a trend in NZ where middle class women get them around 50 years old. I guess it’s part of their version of a mid life crisis.
I also know a women who had a tramp stamp tattoo that would swell up. She had a mouthful of amalgams, and too scared of the dentist to get them removed. She had quite extreme metal intoxication. She then developed breast cancer a year later. Still won’t get the amalgams removed, but jumped at the chance of getting a breast removed. Crazy. It was obvious to me that she was going to get breast cancer if her amalgam fillings weren’t removed, and it was possibly too late. It was an extreme case.
A friend got his tattoos pushed into his body with a laser, and yes, it left a scar image of the tattoo in its place, lighter in color than the rest of his skin.
Much truth here about tattoos. Yesterday I went to a specialist M.D.s office for the first time. I knew I was in dangerous territory when the young nurse that helped me had the most elaborate tattoos on both full arms in full color.
But tattoos are the least of my concerns.
My conscience tells me that there is no moral or just reason for the USA to send USA military for a direct strike on Iran now or probably ever. The USA and its leaders and its military has no just reason to do the unjust bidding of a foreign country for any reason.
_______
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
______
2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming.
Christus Vincet! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat
From a spiritual perspective I have a book by William Suddeth called "What's Behind the Ink." Sherri Tenpenny has also done a study on the toxicity of it. This article is great with more in depth info. It has inspired me to make up a folder for my new coffee table book shelf labelled "Things Granny Was Right About."