How to pronounce "tarahumara"

But maybe there's another benefit there as well.

Without getting too extreme about this,

imagine a world where everybody could go out the door

and engage in the kind of exercise

that's going to make them more relaxed, more serene,

more healthy,

burn off stress --

where you don't come back into your office a raging maniac anymore,

or go home with a lot of stress on top of you again.

Maybe there's something between what we are today

and what the Tarahumara have always been.

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons

and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet,

but maybe there's somewhere in between.

And if we find that thing,

maybe there is a big fat Nobel Prize out there.

Because if somebody could find a way to restore that natural ability

that we all enjoyed for most of our existence

up until the 1970s or so,

the benefits -- social and physical and political and mental --

could be astounding.