A BIG Reason Your IMMUNE SYSTEM Weakens As You AGE | Thymus Shrinkage

On the ever growing list of things that we intelligent walking apes take for granted, I think it’s safe to say the trillions of warriors who keep our biological cities safe, 24/7 365 days a year, are near the top.

And it’s not because the average human doesn’t understand nor comprehend the importance of the immune system, to modern societies credit, it’s talked about quite a bit. It is simply just HARD to grasp the scale, organization and precision of such a complex system we can’t even see.

That being said, we know it’s there, protecting us, fighting for us, and ideally, doing it in the silence of the biological night, like the masked vigilante that it is. Which for the most part, is what happens… Until it doesn’t…

As it’s been well documents that as we age, the strength, precision and coordination of our internal army begins to grow old too. With it, increasing the risk of a dis-regulated response that could result in an increased chance of infection, or unwarranted attack on our own cells. Both of which, not ideal.

Happenings, which have driven modern science to investigate why. An investigation which has discovered several potential culprits for this observed decline, one of the most interesting being a master immune organ which seems to rapidly shrink throughout life. Posing the question…

What if we could SLOW or Reverse it….