The Little-Known “Throwaway” Gland That Is CRITICAL For Immunity (& The Unexpected Peptides To Support It) - With Abud Bakri

Full show notes: BenGreenfieldLife.com/thymuspodcast

In this episode, I sit down with internal medicine physician Dr. Abud Bakri to talk about the thymus, the small gland on top of your heart that trains your immune system and starts shrinking as soon as you hit puberty. You’ll hear what speeds that shrinkage up, from birth control and testosterone therapy to chronic infections, stress and a leaky gut, why Korean eunuchs lived longer, and which blood markers, like the ratio of helper to killer T cells (CD4-to-CD8 ratio), give you a window into how your thymus is doing.

We get into thymulin and zinc, thymosin alpha-1, the Russian thymus extract Thymalin, and whether eating sweetbreads does anything at all. You’ll also hear my bedtime stack of epitalon and Pinealon, why Abud shines red light on his sternum, the overlooked link between the thymus and testosterone, why he takes 40 times my dose of body protection compound 157 (BPC-157) for injuries, and the red flags to watch for before you inject any peptide. We also cover natural killer cell treatments, the libido peptide being tested for weight loss, and why Abud thinks lactoferrin and colostrum are about to catch on.

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