The poor appendix. Despite findings that it serves a purpose, many people still cast it off as a second rate organ and the Rodney Dangerfield of organs. We aim to correct that notion.
# SYSK Episode Summary
Josh and Chuck are back in the studio together for the first time in over a year, celebrating with champagne and a frozen shrimp cocktail from 2009, and they're diving into one of their favorite recent articles about the appendix—that weird little worm-shaped organ hanging off your colon that scientists thought was completely useless for over 150 years. It turns out the appendix actually serves an important function as a safe house for beneficial gut bacteria and produces immune cells, which explains why appendicitis became more common as the world became more sanitized, and why you can still live without it even though it does something useful.
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