Why does the spleen work so hard?

The little red organ is the spleen. The spleen is tucked on the underside of the respiratory diaphragm on the left side. The spleen is part of the immune system, helping to make white and red blood cells. The spleen gets called whenever there is inflammation in the body. And in today’s world most everyone has inflammation. Whether it is in the gut, or the joints, or something else.
So the poor little spleen is often overactive.
One of the big culprits to creating spleen over activity is gluten. Even if you are not celiac many many people are sensitive, and many often don't know it or pooh pah it. This inflammatory process continues to ask a lot of the spleen. If you are gluten/wheat sensitive the amount the size of a fingernail can set off an inflammatory process that lasts up to 3 months for many.
What are the symptoms to an overactive spleen? A tongue that feels too big inside your mouth. You can have pain in the left shoulder. There can be pain or tenderness over the spleen directly. Or it can reach down the outside of the leg and tighten the very famous ITB, iliotibial band. How's that for far reaching affects?
And here's my last thought. Why is it the medical community thinks it's ok to live without the immune system organs? Spleen, tonsils, appendix. Shouldn't we be finding a way to heal the immune system rather than take it out?????

December 6, 2018