Is Your Immune System Declining as You Age?

The first thing that starts to go is our immune systems. We have this huge gland in our chest when we're babies, it's huge called the famous gland. It sort of tells our bodies how to immune react so that if you get exposed to a virus, your body learns, oh, that's a virus, attack it. And it learns, don't attack me. Attack the virus. By the time you're my age, it's almost unexistent. Even at your age, in your late 20s, it's not very big. It's not doing a lot. But what we can do is say, well, what does the thymus gland make? And it

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