Thanks, Tom, for your appreciation and for mentioning the Yanomami tribe (for the interested reader, here is the link to the original study: http://cardiology.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamacardio.2018.3676). Curiously, in my original draft for this article, I made reference to a similar South American tribe, the Tsimane of Columbia. They have been investigated quite extensively by Gurven and Kaplan and their group. Hypertension prevalence is less than 3% in these tribes. Also there is no age-related rise in blood pressure. Your suggestion that this age-related rise in our societies is indicative of an exposure to unhelpful diets and sedentary lifestyles is absolutely correct.

On the other hand, we do not need to live in the jungle under these tribes’ conditions to remedy our hypertensive ailments. The latter is simply due to a mismatch between our genetic predisposition and our health habits. But we can correct this mismatch by adjusting those aspects of our individual lifestyles that conflict with our individual predisposition. The way to that is to trial-and-error our way towards the aligning our everyday dietary and exercise habits with our genome.