We know about the devastating effect that Alzheimer s and other types of dementia can have on people – but what s less clear is how they get started in the brain and what can be done to cure them or prevent them from happening in the first place.
Researchers working with a remote population in the Amazon have found the group experiences extraordinarily low rates of dementia. The study follows on from prior findings that the same group displayed almost no cases of age-related heart disease.
Experts have found rates of dementia are 11 times lower among the indigenous hunter-gatherer Tsimane community in the Bolivian Amazon, compared to westerners.
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