For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill.

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    According to a DNA analysis of people across western South America, a population in the Argentinian Andes carries a gene variant that likely helps them metabolize arsenic more safely

    Wow it’s not microbes etc. The water has arsenic and they can drink it.