The Immune System is so complex in its relationships to organs, glands and cells, immune dysfunction and suppression can have a number of different causes. Physicians have always treated deficiencies involving the thyroid gland, the pancreas, adrenal gland, etc. with physiological replacements. By the very nature of how these extracts are processed, the resultant Product is a conglomeration of thymus tissue, cell debris, fragments of thymus proteins and thymus by-products. These extracts have been available for years and have shown some small level of effectiveness in treating various immune deficiencies and some specific medical conditions. In fact, one such fragmented thymus protein, Thymosin has been approved as an adjuvant treatment for Hepatitis B in China.
Extracts contain fragmented thymic peptides.
They are only slightly effective because they are fragments. To attain full effectiveness, a protein must have specific shape, which has exact transmitter and receptor sites. Only a whole protein molecule would be expected to have full biological activity. It is therefore logical that since supplying whole thymus in a processed and fragmented form helps people with thymus deficiencies, it would be much more effective to supply a purified whole thymus protein which is biologically active. An immunologist has patented a technology whereby he can grow thymus cells in a laboratory and from the product of the cell's metabolism, purified a specific thymus protein.