Norman Swan
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You're going a bit far now.
So, Andrew, you need to listen to this week's What's That Rash, our sister podcast, where we deal with exactly this issue.
And the appendix, you're absolutely right, is thought of as a safe house.
Where there are bugs in there.
No, the safe house is different.
The safe house is for the microbiome.
Bacteria and other organisms.
So if something happens to the microbiome of the gut, the appendix can deliver the microbiome back into the gut.
But yes, you're right.
It's also an immune organ that actually trains the immune system and helps to control the immune system associated with these interesting little patches of immunity in the immune tissue at the end of your small bowel called the pyrus patches.
Apologise to your husband because he obviously felt threatened by my gun.
And so men carry the BRCA gene and that puts them at higher risk of male breast cancer.