Comment · Tue, October 8, 2013
What's the worst design flaw you've ever encountered?
What they were answering
TheGrim1 · 510 points
The appendix is useful. It is a repository for gut bacteria. A backup in case of gut clearing diseases like cholera or dysentery.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
I had my appendix taken out as a child. As an adult, I went to India and got very sick. My immune system was never the same after that. After a couple years, I went to an immunologist to get help, as I was sick every month, sometimes VERY sick. He said that probiotics play a much larger role than we think, and that my flora was probably all killed off by the India incident. Since I did not have an appendix, it could never regenerate on its own. After a month of strong probiotics, and now daily yeast fermentate supplements, I have not been sick a single time since starting. Fucking India and fucking appendix!