What do appendixes do?!
Question: A relatively new theory is that it contains and protects helpful bacteria in the gut. Other than that they sit there or become inflamed and rupture.
Answers: A relatively new theory is that it contains and protects helpful bacteria in the gut. Other than that they sit there or become inflamed and rupture.
They are vestiges of a more primative lower bowel.
According to the medical establishment, they don't do anything any more. They are a vestigial part/end of the digestive tract.