Scientists: Appendix protects good germs

For 159 years, docs have been removing appendices.

"In 1885, Dr. William West Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is believed (sources disagree) to be the first successful appendectomy in the U.S. His patient was 22-year-old Mary Gartside, on whom he performed surgery by opening her abdomen and removing a perforated appendix. She recovered and lived until 1919, when she died from an unrelated illness. The first appendectomy in Britain took in 1848 by Dr Hancock. In Canada, Dr Abraham Groves in his book, All In The Day's Work (1934), that he performed his first appendectomy to successfully remove an inflamed appendix on 10 May 1883 on a boy in the log cabin in which he lived. Although the boy recovered, at the time, medical opinion had a negative reaction." (source)

Now, they claim they found its purpose.

"...It produces and protects good germs for your gut...

The appendix 'acts as a good safe house for bacteria,' said Duke surgery professor Bill Parker, a study co-author...

The theory led Gary Huffnagle, a University of Michigan internal medicine and microbiology professor, to wonder about the value of another body part that is often yanked: 'I'll bet eventually we'll find the same sort of thing with the tonsils.'"

You can bet with certainty that they will "find the same sort of thing," i.e., a purpose, for every hormone, gene, organ, etc. messed with needlessly to fight overweight and obesity.

The Law of Unintended Consequences will operate to its fullest.

You've been warned.