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Disgusted by spoiled food? You may be protecting yourself from disease Feb. 15, 2021 , 3:00 PM Ask a man of the Shuar tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon what disgusts him the most, and he might say eating raw meat; stepping in human feces; or drinking chicha, a traditional alcohol, made “with the spit of a toothless woman,” says Lawrence Sugiyama, an anthropologist at the University of Oregon. Feeling grossed out by potentially contaminated food or spit from an unhealthy person turns out to be a wise reaction for the Shuar, Indigenous people who hunt, gather, and grow crops in the rainforests of south-central Ecuador. In the first study of disgust and the health of Indigenous people, Sugiyama and his colleagues have found that the Shuar who felt the most revolted by raw or spoiled food, or other potential sources of pathogens, are less likely to be fighting a viral or bacterial infection. “Those individuals who scored higher on the Shuar disgust scale had lower levels of immune a

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