Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.
I did physical exams on about 300 people living in Tayakome and Diamante, another village on the Manú, and was seeing a remarkably healthy group of people, infants to elders, generally fit, active and well-nourished. They were hunters, fishermen, farmers and foragers, had been forever, and they were good at it. I never heard a heart murmur or recorded an elevated blood pressure.