With concerns over the health risks of drawing a tattoo, the tattoo health benefits are often overlooked. In this article, I’ll be looking at the 3 other health benefits of the Tattoo.
Below are 3 Health Benefits Of the Tattoo
The Tattoo Help To Improve vaccines
The greatest hurdles for vaccines are efficacy and costs. Through the study of tattooing, scientists are finding ways to make vaccines more effective with a lower production cost. They are using tattoos as a vaccine delivery method instead of the traditional needle. The tattoo delivery method uses DNA vaccines, providing multiple doses safely, in single session. The results are higher humoral and cellular immune responses than traditional vaccine injections. With as much as 16 times stronger effects. The DNA vaccines are lower cost to produce, making the vaccines more accessible. Labs have already had success using the vaccine method for HPV in mice And tattooing as a delivery method is already in use for other medical applications. The downside is that the tattoo delivery is more powerful –it is a tattoo after all, than a traditional needle. This may limit its use to therapeutic vaccines treating cancers and other major diseases. The vaccine tattoos use no ink, so there are no permanent marks.
The Tattoo Can Provide Confidence and Self-esteem
Those with tattoos know the confidence associated with fresh ink. It’s exciting and you want to show it off like an amplified version of the feeling you get after a really good haircut. But it turns out that the confidence boosting effects aren’t just for new ink. A study amongst college students found a correlation between tattoos and self-esteem. And the more tattoos, the bigger the confidence boost. The cause for this may be that a tattoo gives you a sense of control over the self. And allow you to reclaim something that has been lost or taken.
The Tattoo Help Athletics
Cortisol reduction isn’t just great for reduction of stress, it also has positive physical benefits for anyone who trains regularly. One of the biggest trends in weight training right now is attempting to reduce cortisol levels. That’s because cortisol reduces your body inability to recover and heal. Reduced cortisol means muscles can repair faster after training growing more muscle and requiring less time off from the gym. Everyone from powerlifters to soccer players are doing their best to keep cortisol levels low. They are doing this by taking supplements and even wearing mouth guards in the gym. Perhaps soon we’ll see an increase in tattoos amongst athletes in hopes of earning this benefit.
