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Radical Anthropology

Does our heart and circulatory necessarily decline with age? Not if we live like the

'Horus Group scientists who had found heart disease in mummies would join with the Tsimane Project and analyse CT scans of the hearts of the Tsimane, an Indigenous tribe of about 17,000 people living in the lowland Bolivian jungle. They would find almost no heart disease. What’s more, continuing research with the Tsimane shows rates of dementia among the lowest ever observed, and they have only minimal cognitive impairment with ageing.'

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<p>An aerial view of the Bolivian Amazonian jungle, home of the Tsimane. Photo by <a href="https://paleyphoto.photoshelter.com/archive/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matthieu Paley</a></p>
AeonWhat Amazonian lives tell us about heart health and longevity | Aeon EssaysHumans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us
Feb 01, 2025, 12:02 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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