Appendix to Life
The appendix gets a bad press. It is
usually treated as a body part that lost its function millions of years ago.
All it seems to do is occasionally getting infected and cause appendicitis. Yet
recently it has been discovered that the appendix is very useful to the
bacteria that help your digestive system function. They use it to get respite
from the strain of the frenzied activity of the gut, somewhere to breed and
help keep the gut's bacterial inhabitants topped up. So treat your appendix
with respect.
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