Andrew Huberman· PhD
t-lymphocytes are an essential component of your immune system these are cells that many people describe as white blood cells they are manufactured in the bone marrow which I still find amazing right we think of bone is just these like you know hard components of our body and our skeleton that allow us to be upright and to be rigid and to move about and you know not be um you know jelly like but indeed in the center of the bone is marrow and the marrow itself is performing an important physiological role many roles in fact one of which is to create these t-lymphocytes or white blood cells they actually are born of the bone marrow but then they mature in a structure called the thymus the thymus is an organ that sits essentially behind your sternum and it's there that the cells that originate from the bone marrow are matured into what are effectively white blood cells which are essentially cells that go out and combat infections bacterial infections viral infections even fungal infections