Body’s Most Mysterious Organ May Play a Key Role in Longevity and Cancer
Story at-a-glance Your thymus, a small immune gland behind your breastbone, begins shrinking in early adulthood, and research shows that better thymus health is strongly associated with lower risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and early death Adults with healthier thymus tissue were about half as likely to die during a 12-year study period,…
