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if you look at that study they they examine five hundred and six people and the entire so virtually the entire tribe everybody was examined for blood pressure and if you look at it across actually blood pressure stays low throughout life it doesn't rise systolic blood pressure remains about 100 diastolic about 60 and it doesn't change over the course of life
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the hanza have been assessed for this sort of thing there have been many studies of their cardiovascular health their physical activity and as you can see that they have um large amounts of time doing what is called moderate to vigorous physical activity we saw that when we hunted with them and they found no evidence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in this population they had a very low prevalence of hypertension and they had optimal levels of biomarkers for cardiovascular health specifically they looked at in this paper they looked at systolic blood pressure diastolic blood pressure and they looked at crp and other markers of inflammation as well as lipids which are interesting to to mention briefly
there is really no significant increase in systolic blood pressure as the hadza age but that is talked about as canon in medical school um and there is this this phenomenon of age-related hypertension but it doesn't really happen again this is a scatter plot but you can see here men and women purple and green there's really no significant increase i guess in this you know it goes from uh an average systolic blood pressure of maybe 110 to 120 at 80 years old and the diastolic does the same thing they're essentially flat throughout the lifespan
hypertension is normal as you age as for every decade systolic blood pressure goes up except in the hadza you know except in free-living humans in which there's no such thing as hypertension as you age there's no such thing as age-related hypertension
we've measured blood pressures and hundreds of pods of men and women and i can count on one hand the number that are you know above the 140 cut off for you know look for grade one what used to be called low grade one hypertension
We found no evidence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in this population of Hadza hunter-gatherers. There was a low prevalence of hypertension across the lifespan, optimal levels for biomarkers of cardiovascular health.
Yes, hunter-gatherers live long, ripe, vital lives, and our notion that they die early is confounded by higher rates of infant mortality in wild human populations, and as you can see, the systolic blood pressure does not rise in any significant amount as they age. Even into their eighth decade of life, the average systolic blood pressure was only slightly above 120 mm of mercury for the Hadza hunter-gatherers. Diastolic blood pressure remains between 60 and 80 mm of mercury across the lifespan well into the eighth decade of life for these Hadza hunter-gatherers.
There is no age-related increase in systolic or diastolic blood pressure in wild-living humans, that is hunter-gatherers, the Hadza.
this paper should be shown to every single medical student across the United States across the world title is the physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter-gatherers Herman Ponce is one of the authors on this paper he was on the podcast previously and they say in the abstract we found no evidence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in this population of hods hunter-gatherers there was a low prevalence of hypertension across the lifespan optimal levels for biomarkers of cardiovascular health I've spoken about this paper in the past when I've illustrated the notion that hunter-gatherers do not get chronic illness they do not have risk factors for cardiovascular disease as they age as do people in the western world
as you can see the systolic blood pressure does not rise in any significant amount as