The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain

May 3, 2023

(Wired) – The routine was familiar for Hillard Kaplan, an anthropology and health economics professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, who has been working alongside the Tsimane for 20 years. His life’s work is to study how people in their society age compared to people in the United States and Europe. Between 2014 and 2019, Kaplan led a mobile team of doctors, lab biochemists, and anthropologists—more than half of whom were from the Indigenous population—to more than 100 villages. They collected data from those willing to share it and provided health care to those who wanted it. “Everything is up to the person—what they want to do and don’t want to do,” Kaplan says. About 90 percent of people agreed to participate. (Read More)