You remember that 5,000 year old intact body/mummy they found up at 11,000 feet in the Alps a decade or more ago? I was just watching a NOVA program about the partial autopsy/investigation they did on him. It may have been a rerun.
Anyway, his DNA, they were able to obtain 93% of it, showed markers for what some think of as modern diseases. 1) Lyme disease and the arthritis that can go with it. So, apparently Lyme disease is at least 5000 years old. 2) He had heart disease. Not a modern disease at all. Here was a guy in his 40s, who had been climbing up and down the Alps all his life, ate organicly, and yet he had heart disease. What that means is that a genetic propensity for something like heart disease hangs around in us for a very long time.
What did he eat just before he dieded? They found grain and Ibex meat. Kinda like a whole weat sandwich.
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