• Shayeta@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    I’m pretty sure I read somewhere the appendix actually functions as backup storage for gut microbes.

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      I think thats a thesis that hasn’t been properly peer reviewed (though it does have some clinical evidence), which is to say its not widely accepted as a reason for it to exist (but that that may be changing).