Eric Topol

And it isn't just gonna be this vaccine.

We're gonna have lots of other ways to improve the immune system.

So for example,

Very recently, we learned about the importance of the thymus gland.

And the thymus gland, which is... I don't even remember what that is.

The medical world has forgotten it exists.

Yeah, because your thymus gland is pretty big and functional when you're a child.

But as you become a teenager and to adulthood, it was thought that it becomes just fatty tissue and a functional.

Well, it's under the sternum and the chest bone.

But what we've learned, I mean, this was amazing.

So researchers at Harvard, Hugo Ertz and his colleagues, they used AI to define the thymus, quantify its health.

in adults, you know, average age in their late 50s, and 25,000 plus people who were followed many, many years from a chest CT scan.

They could quantify the thymus health and the people who had good thymus health, that it wasn't just fatty tissue and wasn't a functional.

They had incredibly improved survival, the lack of cancer.

They had lack of cardiovascular disease.

They had all the benefits of

that we saw of super agers, right?

So this is another remarkable discovery that reinforces how our immune system, which of course connects with inflammation, how that is so fundamental to healthy aging.

This to me is a landmark series of reports.

It also showed through a separate paper that if you're going to get cancer treatment, if you have a healthy thymus,