However, a recent groundbreaking study by leading immunologist Ranjit K. Chandra at Memorial University of Newfoundland found that a supplement of modest doses of eighteen common vitamins and minerals dramatically boosted immune functioning and cut infectious illnesses in half among a group of elderly people. His finding is heralded as a major breakthrough by the mainstream medical community.
Similarly, during middle age, the thymus gland, a major player in immune functioning, begins to shrink dramatically, coinciding with a decline in production of thymulin, a hormone that creates disease-fighting T-cells. Yet several studies find that only 30 daily milligrams of zinc rejuvenated the functioning of the thymus gland in people over age sixty-five, restoring their output of thymulin and T-cell production to equal that of people twenty years younger