Appendix Benefits

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by Dafé,

Well, you know medical science sometimes changes and now scientists indicate in the recent online version of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology that the appendix, often thought to have no real medical value, does have its benefits after all. I happen to still have my appendix, but millions of Americans don’t.

Dr. William Parker, an immunologist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and his colleagues suggest that the vermiform appendix serves to repopulate the gut with good bacteria after a bad case of diarrhea, by being a store chest of good bacteria. The appendix (or vermiform appendix) is a pouch-like structure near the junction of the small intestine and the large intestine.

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