Indigenous peoples often exhibit a squared mortality curve, maintaining vitality longer before a precipitous decline at death, contrasting with the steady decline in vitality observed in Western populations.

“and when we get rid of that data and we sort of re-qualify or recalculate the data looking at a more level playing field or a reason of a landscape we see something quite interesting which is this squaring of the mortality curve this compression of morbidity”

“in indigenous cultures we see that all those metrics kind of stay more level and then drop off precipitously when they die right this is the compression of morbidity and I think this is the same thing that you're describing it is”

“So what you see in those populations is something called squaring of the morbidity curve. Morbidity is just this word that means like it's like how how quickly do we become decrepit. Got it. How it's your slope of dying. Yes. Your your gradual slope of dying. You're not dead, but you're partly dead. Right. You're partly dead because your your abilities are declining. You're not as vital. You're not as strong. You know, you get more injuries. So if you look at huntergatherer populations, they have a squaring.”