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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Chopping wood may be the manliest sport there is. According to a new study, the act of chopping wood produces more testosterone than competitive activities like sports. The discovery highlights how ...

Mr. H, the first documented hikikomori in the United States, was 30 years old when he arrived at the psychiatric clinic at the University of California, San Francisco. Slender, with long fingernails, ...

A few years ago, I read reports of an indigenous tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest whose members had hardly any evidence of heart disease. In fact, the researchers concluded after a year-long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...