We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
people in plant-based circles will often point to indigenous hunter-gatherers or they'll say cavemen only live to be 25 years old and I just think this is such an inaccurate representation of the quality of life that indigenous peoples can experience and it probably has to do with the differences in their diet and lifestyle which we can get into
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there is such an insidious notion out there that hunter gatherers lead short lives and this is just wrong
as i've talked about with chris ryan and other people on the podcast clearly this is wrong and it's it's confounded by higher rates of infant mortality when humans are living in the wild
if you account for infectious disease which probably kills the majority of these kids or kills the hza you know then we haven't done anything for life expect right we're just it's a we're just being fed a lie here
If you actually look at the data, it shows something completely differently. It shows that if a man or a woman makes it to the age of 12 or 13, they have a life expectancy that is just as long as ours.