Scientists studying the Tsimané people of Bolivia found dementia rates of just 1%. Their research points to a specific ...

Researchers working with remote indigenous populations in the Bolivian Amazon have found the communities experience extraordinarily low rates of dementia. The new study follows on from prior findings ...

The reason why the Tsimane people are declared the healthiest population as yet measured is because none have been recorded as having any signs of clogged up arteries, even the most elderly members of ...

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 ...

Study estimates that an 80 year old from the Tsimane (pronounced chee-MAH-nay) group had the same vascular age as an American in their mid-fifties. The Tsimane people – a forager-horticulturalist ...

A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers. The decrease in their ...

A primitive tribe in the Amazon rainforest may have the best heart health in the world. Researchers of a new study think that simple living provides them with extraordinary protection against ...

An Amazon indigenous group whose brains age 70 per cent slower than those of Europeans could offer valuable insight into preventing dementia, scientists have said. Researchers said the Tsimane ...

Indigenous Bolivian Amazon dwellers are helping to bolster recent findings that normal body temperature, around 37° Celsius, or 98.6° Fahrenheit, might not be so normal anymore. The ...

Heart attacks and strokes are almost unknown amongst the Tsimané thanks to a high carbohydrate, low protein diet and active lifestyle, say researchers A high carbohydrate diet of rice, plantain, ...