Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally
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DownloadYour tattoos are inside your immune system, literally. With each very tasteful piece of art,
you kick start a drama with millions of deaths,
grand sacrifices and your immune system stepping in to protect you from yourself.
Let's give you a tattoo and zoom in to see what happens inside your skin.
The Conveyor Belt of Death
Your skin has to solve a huge problem – it's your largest organ and has the most direct contact with
the world around you. Trillions of microbes, dirt, insects and vermin can’t be allowed to get inside you
– but your skin is also constantly damaged by you moving through the world.
Your body solved this by making your skin a conveyor belt of death. All the skin you see
is actually dead stuff. The alive part of your skin cells begins around one millimeter deep,
in the skin industrial complex. Stem cells constantly clone themselves producing new
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Key Vocabulary (17)
Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
The whole physical structure of a person or animal, including the bones, skin, and internal organs. It is used to describe the entire physical being of a living or deceased entity.
A place is a particular area, position, or building that is used for a specific purpose or where something is located. It is a general term used to describe locations ranging from a specific spot in a room to an entire city.
A system is a group of parts that work together as a whole. It can be used to describe a set of rules, a computer program, or a part of the body.
This word describes a person, animal, or plant that is no longer living. It is also commonly used to describe electronic devices or batteries that have no power remaining.
Immune describes the state of being protected from a specific disease, typically through vaccination or prior exposure. It can also figuratively refer to being unaffected by something negative, such as criticism, or being exempt from certain duties or legal consequences.
As an adverb at a C2 level, it denotes presence, availability, or existence within a specific vicinity or context. It is also used to indicate approximate values or to describe movement or positioning that encircles a point or lacks a specific direction.
Describes something that is very small in size, amount, or degree. It is more emphatic than the word 'small' and is often used to highlight how little something is.
"The tiny is important."
Grammar in This Video
"Your tattoos are inside your immune system"
"Stem cells constantly clone themselves"
"All the skin you see is actually dead stuff."
"Tattooing this part of your skin would be useless"
"This wall of dead corpses is consistently pushed upwards."
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