The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million species of insects, 10 million species of animals, and 50 indigenous ethnic groups living in the Amazon alone. There are so many trees in the Amazon that 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from this rainforest. People who occupy the Amazon are native tribes
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Indigenous ethnic groups would live longer, especially the isolated ones. Any illness they had could easily be treated by plants found in the jungle. Every type of medicine was readily available directly from nature. Now, some tribes believe that westerners who immigrated to the area has brought along unnatural diseases they are not immune to. These diseases break down the immune system quicker and some tribes would die off without getting proper treatment for the lack of health facilities in the area. Plus, going to a hospital is not part of their tribal practices so some people die off quick. Nowadays, the life expectancy for people in the area is actually decreasing. But, for the westerners living in the area, their life expectancies are increasing. They are taking advantage of the many modern medicines derived from the chemicals found in the rainforest. Another reason life expectancy is low among indigenous populations is because they kill themselves off after a certain age. This is a superstitious belief that old age not good so they’re encouraged to die off before reaching it. Although this happens among some tribes, this doesn’t take away from the fact that indigenous people typically live a long time as long as they stay completed isolated from the rest of the population. One of the oldest men in the world who turned 126 in 2014 is from the northeast region of Brazil very close to the Amazon
Indigenous ethnic groups would live longer, especially the isolated ones. Any illness they had could easily be treated by plants found in the jungle. Every type of medicine was readily available directly from nature. Now, some tribes believe that westerners who immigrated to the area has brought along unnatural diseases they are not immune to. These diseases break down the immune system quicker and some tribes would die off without getting proper treatment for the lack of health facilities in the area. Plus, going to a hospital is not part of their tribal practices so some people die off quick. Nowadays, the life expectancy for people in the area is actually decreasing. But, for the westerners living in the area, their life expectancies are increasing. They are taking advantage of the many modern medicines derived from the chemicals found in the rainforest. Another reason life expectancy is low among indigenous populations is because they kill themselves off after a certain age. This is a superstitious belief that old age not good so they’re encouraged to die off before reaching it. Although this happens among some tribes, this doesn’t take away from the fact that indigenous people typically live a long time as long as they stay completed isolated from the rest of the population. One of the oldest men in the world who turned 126 in 2014 is from the northeast region of Brazil very close to the Amazon