The Tsimane Amazon tribe where people age better - BBC World Service

In the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia the Tsimane, one of the most remote indigenous peoples on the continent, stand out for one thing.

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People here age more slowly than other populations and the older Tsimane enjoy exceptional vitality, as several scientific studies have shown. What is their secret? BBC News Mundo travelled to meet them.

00:00 Introduction

01:31 Meeting Martina

03:12 Studying the Tsimane

04:24 Is their diet the key?

06:40 Meeting Juan

07:03 The active lifestyle of the Tsimane

09:01 Meeting Fermin

10:53 The medical history of the Tsimane

12:49 How their way of life is changing

Video by Jorge Pérez Valery and Alejandro Millán

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