This type article declaring a thymus revelation is published every few years.
We've known the thymus is saving our lives — it's where the t in t-Cells derives from for years. There are very old studies of removing it from older humans and statistically seeing a decline in health. Most doctors will not remove it without a decent cause in older patients (intractable infection, for example). In those cases it's not that removing the thymus was a good approach. It was just the least-bad approach the physician had on hand to help their patient.
Never forget that everything we do, medically, is a stall. I'm glad we have blood pressure pills and better health spans than our grandparents. Eat a healthy diet, run 3 times a week, manage stress and... die anyway. That's the deal we were given as living things.
We've known the thymus is saving our lives — it's where the t in t-Cells derives from for years. There are very old studies of removing it from older humans and statistically seeing a decline in health. Most doctors will not remove it without a decent cause in older patients (intractable infection, for example). In those cases it's not that removing the thymus was a good approach. It was just the least-bad approach the physician had on hand to help their patient.
Never forget that everything we do, medically, is a stall. I'm glad we have blood pressure pills and better health spans than our grandparents. Eat a healthy diet, run 3 times a week, manage stress and... die anyway. That's the deal we were given as living things.