Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest hearts in the world

In fact, the researchers concluded after a year-long study that the Tsimane, as they are called, had the healthiest hearts in the world, a title previously held by Japanese women. And given that so many chronic diseases, including heart disease, are often ignited or worsened by our own immune systems, it is possible that the parasites in the bodies of the Tsimane help regulate their immune systems and protect their hearts. While heart disease kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year and costs nearly a billion dollars a day, the Tsimane remind us that wealth doesn’t necessarily buy health and that simple solutions surround us, if we just take the time to notice.

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