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As Martina Canchi Nate walks through the Bolivian jungle, red butterflies fluttering around her, a team of journalists has to ask her to pause — they can’t keep up. Martina, 84 years old, is one of 16,000 Tsimanes (pronounced “chee-may-nay") — a semi-nomadic indigenous community living deep in the Amazon rainforest, north of Bolivia’s largest city, La Paz. Scientists have concluded that the Tsimanes people have the healthiest arteries ever studied, and their brains age more slowly than North Americans and Europeans. The BBC examines what Tsimanes consume, what they don’t, and what the rest of us might learn from them. https://flip.it/qkbnqO
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