[ExI] , melatonin

[Ben]

On 30/01/2021 03:56, bill w wrote:
> Produced by the lungs?  Who knew the lungs were endocrine glands?
>
> https://neurosciencenews.com/melatonin-lungs-covid-17632/
>

Yes, the lungs (as well as a number of other organs) have multiple 
functions. This is one of the challenges for designing a more sensible, 
modular body that can easily be maintained and repaired without the need 
for invasive surgery (which would be one route to radical 
life-extension. Imagine a body that's more like a car, in that you can 
go to a shop and swap out your lungs for new ones, and it would just 
take 10 minutes with no pain, no damage and no need for recuperation and 
healing afterwards).
Refactoring the various systems and organs into distinct modular units 
becomes quite difficult once you realise that bones don't just provide 
mechanical support, lungs don't just do gas exchange, kidneys don't just 
filter the blood, etc., etc. You end up having to design new organs that 
our original bodies don't have.

I expect there are more such multiple functions that we need to discover.

-- 
Ben Zaiboc

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