The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

news.yahoo.com ^ | August 24, 2009 | Charles Q. Choi

[US Navy Vet]

Same reason that he doesn’t remove the BRAINS of people that have problems w/ it.

[Americanwolf]

Toche’ :)

[Young Werther]

MY English Teacher, shown below, taught me that the appendix contained important stuff!

Note how she's making the point! You check the appendix and then look up!

[mware]

I had my gall bladder taken out two years ago. What timing, the night before our school gave its state test.

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.

[Jemian]

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.

[EnquiringMind]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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[BJClinton]

Here, maybe this'll cheer you up.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[SunkenCiv]

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

[Jemian]

ROTFLOL! I love it.

Thank you. We carnivores party at Outback.

[allmendream]

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.

[ApplegateRanch]

He suggests it might be possible to devise ways to incite our immune systems today in much the same manner that they were challenged back in the Stone Age.

Should be easy.

Abolish the FDA, close down water treatment and sewerage treatment plants; outlaw refrigerators....