Neither Shrunken Nor Useless: Thymus Remains Essential to Long-Term HealthNeither Shrunken Nor Useless: Thymus Remains Essential to Long-Term Health
The Miraculous Immune System

Neither Shrunken Nor Useless: Thymus Remains Essential to Long-Term Health

More and more research has discovered that the thymus continues, even into adulthood, to have essential functions across many systems of the body.
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Human thymus anatomy. Nerthuz/Shutterstock
By Yuhong Dong M.D., Ph.D., Makai Allbert
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The thymus is an organ that has puzzled scientists and scholars for centuries. It’s an essential lymphatic organ and an endocrine gland that plays a significant role. Its dysfunction can drastically affect quality of life.

By adulthood, the thymus has significantly decreased in size, so many people think of it as a “shrunken” and “useless” organ. Yet is this really true?

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