The Enigmatic Role of the Human Appendix: Beyond a Vestigial Organ

For years, the appendix was considered a vestigial structure, a remnant of an ancestral past where our diets and ways of life were vastly different, with no significant function in the modern human body. However, recent research suggests that this small, worm-shaped tube connected to the large intestine may have roles that contribute to our well-being, although not in detoxification as might be sometimes misconstrued.