Restoring Thymus Function for Enhanced Immune Response

The key to a healthy, functioning immune system rests with the thymus gland, a small organ lying just beneath the breastbone. The primary role of the thymus is to assist in the proliferation and differentiation of mature T-lymphocytes - cells that attack and kill viruses and bacteria. T-cells emerge from the bone marrow in an incomplete state. In order to function properly, immature T-cells migrate to the thymus gland where they are programmed into mature T-cells that orchestrate the immune response to attack and destroy invading viruses and cancer cells.

In our early twenties we have an abundance of well-trained, functioning T-cells that regulate the immune system and help the body fight off pathogens and disease. After about age 20, the thymus begins to shrink (atrophy) as dying thymic cells are progressively replaced by fat and connective tissue.

By about age 40, output of thymic hormones has dropped significantly and T-cells have begun to lose their effectiveness. It is this gradual loss of functioning T-cells that is believed to be responsible for many of the agerelated changes in the immune system that gradually rob the body of its ability to fight off infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders and cancer.

Antiaging Effects of Vital Cell in Rabbits

To evaluate the effects of Vital Cell on organ health, researchers conducted a two-year trial with two identical groups of rabbits. One group was treated with Vital Cell daily, and the second, untreated group served as a control. At the end of the study, the researchers compared the organs of both test groups of elderly rabbits to those of young, healthy juvenile rabbits. When examining the treated rabbits the researchers noted that thymus glands of the old animals receiving Vital Cell retained the structure and functionality of glands normally seen only in young, health rabbits.

Conversely, the thymus glands of the old, untreated control rabbits were severely a t r o p h i e d , weighing less than a third of their normal weight, and consisting primarily of inactive fat and connective tissues. Similar results were observed when the researchers compared tissues samples gathered from the brain, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and other organs. In each case, the organs of Vital Cell-treated animals displayed the form and function of tissues normally only seen in younger subjects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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