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Meet the tiny organ evolution couldn’t quite delete.

Your appendix mostly minds its own business—until one day it sparks a full-blown abdominal crisis. In our new episode of Not Another Medical Podcast, James, Brodie, and Josh unpack:

➡️ How appendicitis actually starts and why the pain “moves”

➡️ Why 1 in 12 of us will get it

➡️ When to stop “waiting it out” and head to the ER 🚑

➡️ Whether antibiotics can ever replace surgery

➡️ And what the appendix might really be for: a leftover evolutionary glitch… or a microbiome bunker and immune outpost that stuck around for a reason.

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