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hey guys I am back today we’re going to talk about the thymus gland in

relationship to viruses it’s the missing link let me explain what is the thymus

it’s different than the thyroid okay the thyroid is located in the front part of

the neck it regulates your metabolism and many other things

the thymus is a little lower it’s right on top of the heart right underneath

your sternum right here okay and when you’re born it’s very very large and

then when you get older it actually shrinks okay so the thymus is a lymph

gland it’s a very important gland I’m going to talk about what it does and

what you can do to keep it really strong the thymus has a very important primary

function and that is something called central tolerance what does that mean

central tolerance tolerance is all about preventing a self attack like in an

autoimmune disease where your body is attacking itself you have certain

mechanisms in place that prevent that self attack your body is supposed to

differentiate between your own cell and a pathogen because we don’t want our own

immune system to go rogue and destroy our own tissues and this is a very

interesting point because in certain experiments when they removed the thymus

gland all sorts of autoimmune diseases popped up okay and autoimmune disease is

very specific to a gland so if you have an autoimmune condition to your thyroid

you have any buddies that are attacking itself so the thymus has a very big

importance in preventing this from occurring let’s talk first about what is

a t-cell and by the way in the thymus you have T cells and B cells the T

stands for thymus because it actually develops in the thyroid gland whereas B

cells develop in the bone marrow so there’s three types of T cells okay I’m

going to try to keep this very very very simple you have the killer T cells which

basically kill viral infected cells so in other words if that virus gets into

that cell this killer t-cell will destroy the

entire cell and the virus and by the way in order for this cell to develop it

needs iodine so if you’re deficient in iodine what can happen is you might not

have the full capacity of the killer cells the killer’s t-cells are basically

like your special forces okay now we have the helper t-cell the helper t-cell

works by coordinating the army it doesn’t necessarily do the killing

but it does tag viruses so it will take spray paint and put a big X on the

viruses or the pathogens that need to be taken care of and those messages are

sent to the killer T cells and other cells for them to do the dirty work the

helper T cells are the coordinator they’re in communication with the entire

army they do a lot of recruitment so they will signal certain parts of the

immune system and tell them to ramp up and get ready and send more troops

because we need more help then you have something called the regulatory t-cells

and this is very very interesting this cell keep the immune system from

overreacting so here you are you have this war going on between your new

system and this pathogen and you have a lot of things flying around you have

inflammatory things you have certain toxic chemicals that your army has to be

able to kill off pathogens well some of that leaks out and it actually irritate

your tissue you have certain what’s called cytokines that are like weapons

that your white blood cells use to kill viruses and bacteria and fungus and

parasites and when you get sick and you get a headache or the full like symptoms

or muscle ache or fatigue what you’re feeling are those cytokines or weapons

from your white blood cell doing the destruction

same thing with a fever your body is just trying to kill off something the

worst thing you can do is quickly try to suppress that with some medication you

want to let your body do its thing you don’t want to necessarily get rid of the

fever too fast and you want to kind of cope with some of these symptoms

as long as you can because your body is working it’s trying to fight off this

infection and realize also that the regulatory t-cells need vitamin D

because if this cell is deficient vitamin D it cannot do its job so this

is where you get an overreaction of inflammation and you could potentially

get a situation where you have a cytokine storm okay now I don’t know if

you’ve been following the COVID-19 connection to the lung and how some

people are developing what’s called a cytokine storm and that’s when they’re

in intensive care in serious condition where they’re on a ventilator or

respirator and they have this serious inflammatory reaction well guess what

that is because this system where this cell is broken down and it can’t calm

down or suppress the reaction of your immune system trying to kill off this

thing so when you look at this cytokine storm where you have this inflammatory

process it’s not that your immune system is overreacting it’s that part of the

immune system is loss its function to suppress or balance out the other side

and it just so happens vitamin D can help this cell and it can also help

suppress inflammation as well and by the way I think I already mentioned this but

the helper t-cell also needs vitamin D to help coordinate the army so you can

see all of these cells work together and by the way this cell right here also has

a job of preventing auto antibodies or autoimmune conditions and so when you

lose this function you get autoimmune issues you have allergies you have all

sorts of inflammatory conditions and as a side note vitamin D is one of the best

anti-inflammatories it’s an immune modulator so it actually suppresses an

overreaction of the immune system all right now we get to it’s called the

b-cells okay b-cells basically make and two bodies now what are antibodies you

have five different categories of antibodies antibodies don’t kill

anything per se what they do is they tag things okay I know tannic pathogens

viruses and fungus and parasites so these other cells can do the dirty work

and kill them so the weakness of antibodies is that they can’t actually

see what’s happening inside the cells so once the virus gets in the cell they

can’t really do anything but that’s why you have like cells like this that can

tag the cell and so this cell can destroy the whole thing so here’s the

thing antibodies are very very specific to certain pathogens in other words you

may have an antibody to epstein-barr virus for example very very specific you

may have an antibody to another pathogen in fact what’s fascinating is the

capacity of how many antibodies your body can actually develop it can go up

into the numbers so high and I’m talking about a million trillion antibodies your

body has the capacity of making that many so you can see the power of your

immune system you can have resistance or protection to pretty much anything now

some antibodies can also bind with the virus okay and just kind of leave it out

to dry but they don’t necessarily kill it with any type of poisons like this

cell right here releases certain I was called cytokines that actually can

poison or kill viruses alright so that kind of gives you a summary of what the

thymus does realize that it’s not just about vitamin D it’s also about zinc as

well with the finest because if you’re deficient in zinc you get a trophy of

your thymus gland it shrinks and so you’re not going to have all these

functions so what’s really really important to support the thymus is zinc

vitamin D iodine keeping your stress low and of course avoiding sugar if you

haven’t seen my video on supporting a healthy immune system check it out I put

it right here