This seems like big news. I've always wondered about that.
I know you hate when I bring up AV in every thread, but he said that the appendix (which could be categorized as a part of the intestine even though it is a separate organ in and of itself), was not "vestigial" and that it had a very real and important purpose, and that was to identify toxins in the body and to store the "memory" of the chemical reaction needed to handle them. Because of this, he said that people who had their appendix surgically removed (like him) would take 24 to 48 hours since a toxin enters the body, to develop the proper reaction to it, whereas in people who had an appendix, it would take around 20 minutes.
