Indigenous Amazonians Have Just 1% Dementia Rates. We Can Learn From This [Science Alert, March 2022]

Title:

Indigenous Amazonians Have Just 1% Dementia Rates. We Can Learn From This

 

Author:

David Nield 

Published:

Science Alert, 11 March 2022

https://www.sciencealert.com/indigenous-amazonian-tribes-have-some-of-the-lowest-rates-of-dementia-in-the-world

 

From the article:

Two groups from the Bolivian Amazon were studied: the Tsimane and the Moseten people. Dementia rates among older people were found to be around just 1 percent, compared with 11 percent of those 65 and older in the United States.  

 

"Something about the pre-industrial subsistence lifestyle appears to protect older Tsimane and Moseten from dementia," says psychologist Margaret Gatz, from the University of Southern California (USC).