Note how she's making the point! You check the appendix and then look up!
Posted on 08/25/2009 4:04:39 AM PDT by raybbr
The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation.
Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it appears in nature a lot more often than before thought. And it's possible some of this organ's ancient uses could be recruited by physicians to help the human body fight disease more effectively.
In a way, the idea that the appendix is an organ whose time has passed has itself become a concept whose time is over.
"Maybe it's time to correct the textbooks," said researcher William Parker, an immunologist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. "Many biology texts today still refer to the appendix as a 'vestigial organ.'"
Slimy sac
The vermiform appendix is a slimy dead-end sac that hangs between the small and large intestines. No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ from an ancestor that ate leaves, theorizing that it was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which once was used by now-extinct predecessors for digesting food.
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Same reason that he doesn’t remove the BRAINS of people that have problems w/ it.
Toche’ :)
Note how she's making the point! You check the appendix and then look up!
I knew I had gall stones but I had restricted my diet and felt that it was under control. That night I felt like I was having a heart attack and knew right away what was going on.
My sister works in the ER and told me that 1/3 of those who come in thinking they have heart attacks are actually having a gall bladder attack.
If I was you I would explain that you do lots of traveling to remote regions of the world and do not want to risk that kind of medical emergency.
I did that. I think they don’t really believe me that I live in a remote area. Or, perhaps they didn’t understand that I live here and not just am merely visiting.
It’s astounding to know the many diseases that are auto-immune. Allergies, arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, Type 1 diabetes, even hiatal hernia, gastritis, Graves disease.....just about anything involving inflammation.
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thanks, bfl
Man collapses with ruptured appendix... three weeks after NHS doctors ‘took it out’
dailymail.co.uk | August 25, 2009 | Daniel Bates
Posted on 08/25/2009 11:12:11 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2324204/posts
ROTFLOL! I love it.
Thank you. We carnivores party at Outback.
There is quite a fine line between staving off infection and killing cells in the effected area. The immune system is fighting a war (in the case of allergies, a war against a harmless foe) and those “bombs” sometimes rack up some ‘collateral damage’.
A scientists I know coined the phrase “immuno-toxicity” to describe the harmful effects of the immune system.
Should be easy.
Abolish the FDA, close down water treatment and sewerage treatment plants; outlaw refrigerators....
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