Vilcabamba: An Amazing Amazonian Story about Lessons in Longevity

In the Western Hemisphere a place exists where degenerative diseases seldom, if ever affects the population.
The people have no heart disease, no cancer, no diabetes, no stroke, no cirrhosis, no senility, no arteriosclerosis, nor any other morbid conditions connected with an interruption in blood flow that are commonly responsible for illness, disability, and death among industrialized people.

Since they don't die of degenerative diseases, the inhabitants of this place are able to live the longest of mankind's years - more than a century. Here you will learn about these centenarians, their daily routine of living, and how they conduct themselves so as to be the longest lived people in the Western Hemisphere.

In November 1981, my wife and I visited the Sacred Valley of Vilcabamba in the province of Loja, South America, where the centenarians live.

Although it is quite close to the equator, the climate is temperate, with a year round daytime temperature ranging from 68 to 72...