Bolivian Amazon with a robust heart! Among the forests of Bolivia, the tsimané, natives of South America, have the healthiest arteries in the world. This is what emerges from a study conducted by a team of researchers from Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, led by Hillard Kaplan of the University of New Mexico. Published in The Lancet, the research has verified that the inhabitants of 85 tsiman villages have the most in shape of all the others, with rates of coronary anterosclerosis 5 times lower than, for example, to the United States. In research, the Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute team visited 85 Tsiman villages between 2014 and 2015.
In this period, the researchers studied the conditions of about 16 thousand inhabitants and, with the help of the CT, analyzed the hearts of 705 subjects of at least 40 years. Taking an important prognostic indicator for the risk of coronary heart disease, calcium in the coronary artery (CAC), scholars discovered that at 45 years of age 25% of Americans have signs of CAC while in no tsimane there was a trace. At 75, 80% Americans have signs of CAC compared to one third of the tsimanes. From here it is clear that an 80 -year -old from this Bolivian tribe has a vascular age comparable to a 50 -year -old American.
85% of tsimanes would have no cardiovascular risk, neither stroke nor heart attack.
Why this disparity? Not considering the fact that we have little or nothing in common with the lifestyles of these civilizations, the researchers investigated the reasons for this singular phenomenon, starting from the diet.
As for physical activity, a man from the Tsiman tribe follows on average 17 thousand steps a day and the women 16 thousand. Hunters can walk at least six hours a day by covering a distance of about 18 kilometers and only 10% of the time remain inactive.
But what it is glitter that glitters is not. Here they are fine with the heart, in agreement, but there is a nice proliferation of infections – First of all Tuberculosis – for a serious lack of fresh water and sewers. Furthermore, electricity is missing and saying that if they pass it well maybe it’s a little too risky.
In short, there is no need to be born in Bolivia to have a healthy heart. Eating correctly and moving a lot are the must of cardiovascular well -being.
