The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
they are pretty much free from chronic disease which is probably the most important part of this whole equation that that they that they're living in the Amazon they're uncontacted how cool is that and they don't have diabetes or high rates of cancer or other chronic diseases common in Western civilization
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these hundred gatherers who are free and so again here's a window to the past you show up in the delorean and you go wow these people are not fat they're not sick they're not depressed they're not unhealthy they don't get cancer they don't get diabetes what are they doing differently than us right
This notion should be taught to all medical students, as should the notion that free-living humans do not suffer rates of diabetes, obesity, chronic age-related illness, cardiovascular disease, dementia, or cancer that are even a fraction of what we do in the West.
there are still free living populations of humans on this Earth that are free from chronic diseases as we know them today that are ramped in our population there are humans living on this Earth that are free from obesity that are free from diabetes that are free from cardiovascular disease that are free from autoimmunity cancer depression dementia Etc
if I look at any free living population of humans I consistently find massively lower rates of cardiovascular disease and chronic disease and diabetes
they do not suffer chronic disease the way that we do in Western Society