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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: On the border of my Outer Circle of Thought
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Nov 18th, 2008, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg
During times of extreme illness (cholera, dysentery) the intestinal flora effectively are "flushed away" - a theory states that in more primitive times (before antibiotics and antivirals) the appendix provided a "safe haven" for a few hundred million or so of the little buggers so that when the body gets better, the gut would be repopulated naturally.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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That could be it. All I know is that it was used for something for primative man and after a while we adapted to the point of not needing it anymore. | |
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