Many people upon learning about our symbiotic partners go to great lengths
to get rid of them, which sometimes does more harm then good. It has been
proposed that the function of the appendix is/was to serve as a backup
supply of gut flora when illness flushes them from the rest of the
intestines.
"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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> nemesis wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>> (OTOH, I saw an estimate somewhere that over 50% of the cells inside the
>>> human body aren't actually human...)
>>
>> I feel a mojo coming up...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora
>
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