Age-Related Degeneration of the Pineal Gland (opens in new tab)

Some decades ago, the pineal gland was overly mythologized by those interested in intervening in the aging processes, a lot of pseudoscience verging into mysticism. Nonetheless, the pineal gland is important component of the endocrine system, and its functions decline with age. Like the thymus and lymph nodes, the pineal gland becomes structurally disrupted with advancing age, and that is the primary focus of the paper noted here. The researchers seek to categorize this disruption and its rel...