Up until a few years ago the thymus gland was considered unimportant; it was considered useless in adults because it shrinks with age and virtually disappears in the elderly. But recently it was discovered it plays a huge role in our immune systems and aging.
MYSTERIOUS THYMUS GLAND MAY HOLD THE KEY TO AGINGMany of the changes of aging are difficult to explain through immunology alone. A Veterans Administration study in Boston found that a man's head circumference increases by one-eighth of an inch every five years; that ear and nose size increase slightly because of increasing amounts of cartilage, but that height decreases at the rate of threesixteenths of an inch every five years in men during their 50's and 60's.
It has been known for years that the lens of the eye loses water and becomes more rigid with age. For that reason many middle-aged and elderly people need corrective glasses.
The wall of the heart's left ventricle, its main pumping chamber, becomes thicker but less powerful. All these changes, some of known cause, others still baffling, testify to the complexity of the process of aging. ''I personally think that aging is not due to any single mechanism,'' said Dr. Edward Schneider of the National Institutes of Health.
He agrees that the immune system does decline, sometimes dramatically, with age, but sees this as one of many results of an extremely complex process.
In recent years some experts have estimated that the maximum human life span is roughly 85 years, give or take a few years. In fact, despite claims that people have lived to be 150 or more, the longest thoroughly authenticated human lifetime was that of a Japanese who lived to be 114, according to that country's public health records.
SIZE OF THYMUS DECREASES WITH AGEModern use of glandular supplements is based on the concept that like supports like--consuming thymus tissue supports our own thymus. You can also buy thymus inexpensively from your local butcher shop, commonly sold under the name of (neck) sweetbreads.
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