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Nytimes did a piece in 2017 about a similar situation [1] about studying the Tsimané [2] and the Tsimané Project [3]; it's a different slant on Alzheimer's but, with such a complex issue, we need to federate and examine all such views.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/alzheimers... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiman%C3%A9 [3] http://tsimane.anth.ucsb.edu/index.html



Thanks for that. The interplay between human parasite evolution is fascinating. Here's a good paper I read some years back about helminth infections and the beneficial effect on autoimmune disorders (among other things) [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618732/





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