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Can robots be good? Are we being surveilled to keep us safe? and what philosophy would help humans understand their own mortality. releasing this full interview tonight with professor, and philosopher @gsteiris

Fire a tattoo-removal laser at a blue pigment in a lab and out comes hydrogen cyanide. I use lasers for a living, so I pulled up the papers. Tattoo ink doesn't even stay in the skin. Researchers X-rayed skin and lymph nodes from four tattooed corpses. Pigments, heavy metals and titanium dioxide had all moved to the nodes, the smallest particles most readily. Part of your tattoo lives there long term. Then came the headlines. In Danish twins, tattoos bigger than a palm carried about 2.7 times the hazard of lymphoma. But that's 32 cases, and when you ignore size the signal goes. In Sweden, about 5,600 people: 21% higher, borderline. Now the strange number. People who'd had a tattoo removed by laser had about 3 times the rate. 13 cases, and in the matched analysis it's not significant. The authors point to lab work showing lasers can split some pigments into carcinogens. In 2015, in a lab, a ruby laser on a blue pigment in suspension gave benzene and hydrogen cyanide. In 2018, another paper reported a laser-released carcinogen breaking DNA in human skin cells, also in a lab. My engraver is a different kind of laser, same theory. Energy goes in, smaller pieces come out. Linking that to the particles that travel best is me joining two dots. It's a question, not a result. Now the brakes. These are observational studies. Cyanide in a test tube is not the same as cyanide in your arm. Nobody has shown that tattoos cause lymphoma. Lymphoma is rare. I'm not telling you to get one or get rid of one. The animations are illustrations, not measurements. Not medical advice. Sources Schreiver et al. 2017, Sci Rep. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11721-z Clemmensen et al. 2025, BMC Public Health. doi:10.1186/s12889-025-21413-3 Nielsen et al. 2024, eClinicalMedicine. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102649 Schreiver et al. 2015, Sci Rep. doi:10.1038/srep12915 Hering et al. 2018, J Invest Dermatol. doi:10.1016/j.jid.2018.05.031 (title only) Headlines: FOX 32 Chicago, 4 Jun 2024; Euronews, 9 Feb 2026; FOX 11 Los Angeles, 31 May 2024 Sound: "Ambient Laboratory Loop" by nlux, CC BY 4.0. Music made with ElevenLabs. Hard to say. Said anyway. #tattoo #lymphoma #science

WHAT MEDICINE WON'T MEASURE | Sam Youssef, PhD, PhD He trained as a physical therapist in Cairo and spent decades inside American hospitals and home care. Somewhere along the way, he decided the textbook wasn't telling the whole story. We talk about the corporate machinery of US healthcare - the paperwork, the insurance games, the minutes stolen from patients - and why some patients get less time than others based on their coverage. Then we go further: consciousness, the mind's role in illness, and where body, mind, and spirit meet. I'm a first-year medical student. I don't agree with all of it. That's exactly why I asked. 👤 ABOUT THE GUEST, in his own words Sam Youssef, PhD, PhD — Author / Editor / Research Psychologist — American Egyptian Political Activist 📖 Spirituality & Psychology (Balboa Press, 2022) 🌐 highermindcenter.com 𝕏 @drhossamsamy65 🎙️ HARD TO SAY Long-form conversations on medicine, the mind, and the things people find hard to say. 📰 Substack + full archive: meetjames.com 𝕏 @realmeetjames Views expressed by guests are their own. My own views are just that, my own. Nothing in this video is medical advice. Talk to your doctor before making any changes to your care. #Medicine #Healthcare #MindBody #Consciousness #MedicalStudent #Psychology #Spirituality

Eggs are great source of bioavailable choline too. Doesn't have the nasty gel caps you get in supplements.