Appendix is useful

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Some of you may have read somewhere that appendix is useless organ. The new theory by surgeon and immunologist published online in a scientific journal suggest appendix maybe a form of shelter for good bacteria.

 

If a person’s gut flora dies, it can usually be repopulated easily with germs they pick up from other people, he said. But before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn’t as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy

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5 Responses to “Appendix is useful”

  1. useful or not, i don’t want it to taken out from my body ehehehe….

    it can useful on condition… like appendixes in documents.. sometime useless

  2. heh, nowadays appendix is useless. it was useful before the civilization flourish

  3. oowwhhh..

  4. hmmm … whatever god gives is damn useful we made it useless … because we don’t know how to use it :D

  5. Now I knew it had to have a purpose, God put it there. Its neat that someone has a theory, and what a good one it is! Wonder if its the true purpose.

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