Dr. Abud Bakri

Where is it set?

It's right above your heart, right behind the collarbone.

How big is it?

It's in a baby.

It could be quite large on the chest.

Big as a baseball?

Maybe the size of half the heart, let's say.

Maybe bigger.

It depends on the size.

Right now, in our bodies, it's going to be a bunch of fat with a couple of different globules of thymic residue.

Tiny, tiny.

Very tiny.

In fact, most surgeons will just remove it when they do surgery nowadays for like open heart.

But there's, you know, good data from New England Journal of Medicine that removing the thymus tissue, residue tissue, leads to a mortality signal within the first five years after those surgeries.

So people have died because of thymus removal.

They'll have like either higher rates of cancers or, you know, higher rates of autoimmune diseases if they have their thymuses removed.

Now, there are thymomas where people have to have their thymuses removed.

But we're talking about people that, you know, the surgeon is going in to do a coronary artery bypass surgery.

So there's sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation for thymus that dictates its hormonal output.

Because the thymus, what is the thymus?