Re:Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest he...
by askthereception on Saturday April 20, 2019 @07:25AM
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So this is the kind of news that one ought to be careful with now that everyone has had a chance to read the Black Swan.
It has probably more to do with genetic drift. You cannot stumble upon a tribe, take some random property they all share, and then make causal inferences from all the other properties they all share. This holds especially when this property correlates with survival of the tribe; it is actually more informative to investigate a group of people with properties that reduce survival, e.g. bad heart conditions.
Re:Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest he...
by flybrand on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:45AM
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Could it be the law of small numbers?
If we broke the world population out into groups the size of this population - one of them would have to be the longest lived. Then we could send reporters there to create a narrative around how they lived.
I like the point that they don’t consume processed foods. As a Celiac, the comments about parasites are interesting (there are some therapeutic approaches here under evaluation).
> “But up until the day they die, the Tsimane are often very healthy.”
Re:Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest he...
by woliveirajr on Saturday April 20, 2019 @07:24AM
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> If you look up the lifespan of the Tsimane, you will find that it is much shorter than those living in the United States.
To have a fair comparison if their hearts are really healthier this should be taken into consideration. If you exclude those deaths by animals, during birth, etc, how long would be the average lifespan? And those who live longer still have healthier hearts?
It has probably more to do with genetic drift. You cannot stumble upon a tribe, take some random property they all share, and then make causal inferences from all the other properties they all share. This holds especially when this property correlates with survival of the tribe; it is actually more informative to investigate a group of people with properties that reduce survival, e.g. bad heart conditions.
If we broke the world population out into groups the size of this population - one of them would have to be the longest lived. Then we could send reporters there to create a narrative around how they lived.
I like the point that they don’t consume processed foods. As a Celiac, the comments about parasites are interesting (there are some therapeutic approaches here under evaluation).
> “But up until the day they die, the Tsimane are often very healthy.”
Is there a way to measure this?
To have a fair comparison if their hearts are really healthier this should be taken into consideration. If you exclude those deaths by animals, during birth, etc, how long would be the average lifespan? And those who live longer still have healthier hearts?