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] devnull> 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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