A primitive Amazonian tribe appears to have the best heart health in the world, living a simple existence that inadvertently provides them extraordinary protection against heart disease, researchers ...

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As Americans race to unlock the secret to anti-aging, the answer could be tucked away in the depths of the Amazon rain forest. The Tsimané people boast the “healthiest hearts on the planet” and brains ...

The people with the healthiest hearts in the world live on a tributary of the Amazon River in Bolivia, filling up on starchy food, researchers reported Friday. The Tsimane people walk, ride bikes or ...

Modern life really does kill after a remote tribe living deep in the Amazon were found to have the healthiest arteries ever studied. A new study estimates that an 80-year-old from the Tsimane has the ...

Indigenous peoples suffered disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing a lack of sovereignty, limited infrastructure and discrimination in local healthcare systems that make them ...

The Tsimane living in the Amazon have the lowest reported levels of age-related hardening of the arteries in the world, say researchers who encourage Westerners to learn from these Bolivian rainforest ...

Members of the Tsimané, an indigenous population in the Bolivian lowlands of South America, pound down more calories per day than a typical American while still boasting some of the healthiest hearts ...

Like the ancient Greek of Homer's time, the Tsimane' language has no set word for the parts of the color spectrum English speakers call “blue.” Although Tsimane' does name a number of more subjective ...

Indigenous Peoples have suffered disproportionally from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Systemic factors including lack of sovereignty, limited infrastructure and discrimination in local health care ...