Who’s not ready to pay more for a jewelry that has natural pearls attached to it? This is the hidden story of the shimmery excrescence of oyster shell called pearl. You are wearing tumors on your earrings, rings and necklaces that you call pearls. How? Here is the answer. Oysters mind their own business in the water and then suddenly a foreign object enters the shell and can’t get out so the oyster start to grow a shimmery cast around that object to prevent it to move around and harm the oyster. Because the shell is solid the cast (pearl) is solid too, but we have the same defense mechanism. The only difference is that our body have soft tissues and not a solid shell, so when a foreign object gets into your body the body try to isolate it by building a cast from soft tissues which is called a tumor (not cancerous) to prevent the object from harming you. So you are proudly wearing an expensive oyster tumor. Most of these “natural pearls”/tumors are actually farmed which means the