The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
if you look at the morbidity curve uh of like westernized humans it just goes down and down and down right people have like less function less function less function these hundred gathers are like straight across it's squared right and then they drop off at the end
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within these tribes that it's the observation consistently whether it's the hadza the ikong other hunter-gatherer tribes there's only a few left on the planet they they're vital up until maybe the last few months or weeks of their life and then it kind of drops off a cliff right so when the time has come for them to die they will decline but it's all what we call this is called compression of morbidity or squaring of the morbidity curve
what we know about at least current tribes of hunter-gatherers is that they live as long as we do with much better vitality and what is called squaring of the morbidity curve into long into old age