Tubu: the people who have the longest life expectancy and never get sick (5 photos)

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, and scientists have already proven this fact, in this seemingly lifeless territory, there was an earthly paradise. Literally ten thousand years ago, a green savannah stretched here for many hundreds of kilometers with many lakes and high-water rivers that gave life to fertile lands.





It is believed that these lands were densely populated, and the inhabitants of these places hunted, fished, were engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding. After all, it was there, in these territories of this lifeless desert, that the first great civilization - Egyptian - originated.

There is an interesting hypothesis about the reasons for the desertification of this huge area of our planet. It turns out that periods of wet and dry climates are cyclical. Scientists examined the bottom sediments of the Western Sahara coast and made a sensational conclusion that sands came into the ocean from the desert periodically. This means that in some 5-7 thousand years the Sahara will turn green and bloom again.

In the meantime... tuba live there

Of all of them, Tuba chose, perhaps, the most unsuitable place to live. Fate threw them into the very center of the Great African Sands, where the temperature at times reaches +55°C in the shade. Just where to get it, this shadow.

It is, in our opinion, completely impossible to live there. There are not even sands in this place. The rocky Tibesti plateau, on the surface of which sand does not linger. A strong wind blows it away. Well, how a stone can become hot at such an extreme temperature is not for me to tell you.

The Toubou's place of residence is located at the junction of the borders of Chad, Nigeria and Libya. Their distant ancestors settled in these areas a long time ago. Science recognizes this people as one of the oldest peoples in Africa.



Who knows, maybe the distant ancestors of the Tuba were lucky enough to come to this rocky plain back in the days when the forests were green there, in the thicket of which rivers flowed and streams with clear cold water gurgled.

There is no trace of anything like that now. One can only dream about those distant times of tuba. But they don’t dream, they simply live in this area.

They live to the envy of everyone and sell salt

The Tubu are engaged in the extraction and sale of salt. Yes Yes. After all, bread and salt are the head of everything. Of course, you can’t grow bread in the area where they live, but you can get salt. Which is what they do with success.

This popular commodity, without which the life of other tribes in the Sahara is simply impossible, tuba is mined in one of the deep lowlands of the hot desert. They load bags of salt onto camels and set off. The journey can take several days, or even weeks. The caravan route is laid out by the buyer of the goods.

And you know, Tubu has no rights to this salt deposit. But for some reason they are the only ones engaged in this business. Why, you ask?





Yes, all because they have no competitors. No one but them can withstand the tedious long journey. Even those representatives of the tribes who live next door to the Tubu. It would seem that they also live in the desert, also roam around it, accustomed to the heat and to a meager ration of water and food. No. They can't stand it.

But the tuba do this with ease. They can be compared in terms of endurance to a camel. They, like the “ship of the desert,” can go for weeks without water and food.

But how? How do they do this?

Scientists for a long time could not unravel the phenomenon of this endurance.

At first they agreed that it was all due to heredity. We looked around. Hmm... then why don’t other representatives of the tribes that have lived in their neighborhood for centuries have such heredity?

We started looking further. Mysticism was called in to help. The tuba's abilities are explained by certain special functions in their body. That is, unlike other peoples, the Tubu body is able to spend vitality very economically.

But, again, an incredible conclusion arises - about the alien origin of the people. Again, some kind of nonsense, not the results of research.

A third version has been put forward. It consisted in the fact that restrictions in water and food are achieved almost by training from infancy. That is, like those athletes who started skating at the age of five.



They were told: “What the hell is that restriction? Tabu women raise goats, whose milk they feed babies almost from birth. They quickly propagate their ownass. And goat milk is considered a very high-calorie product.”

A riddle within a riddle

As it turned out later, the tuba, in addition to endurance, has other amazing records. It turns out that this people leads in life expectancy among other African peoples. What about the African ones? According to this indicator, the most advanced European countries can put the tuba in their belt. And all this in the absence of medical care.

Further more. Representatives of the Tubu people almost never get sick. They never experience toothache, since caries for some reason does not affect their snow-white teeth, which they retain until very old age.

The curtain opened a little when the explorers decided to travel with the tuba caravan. True, not on camels, and not on foot, but on SUVs. This technique has only just appeared in Western everyday life.

They agreed with the elders of the tribe that they would accompany a caravan loaded with salt for sale. Naturally, on SUVs equipped, among other things, with air conditioning.

The “journey” lasted about a week

The scientists drove without turning off the air conditioning in the car. The camel drivers followed the caravan on foot. None of them rode animals.

On the first day, the caravan covered a distance of 50 kilometers. Before setting off, scientists measured the pressure of each participant in the hike. At the end of the day, when the day's march was completed, they again measured the pressure of each representative of the taboo.

They were in shock. The medical evidence seemed to whisper to them: “This is a mess, Mr. Professor. This man hasn’t gotten off the couch since morning.”

An interesting entry in the diary of a Belgian scientist, a participant in the expedition:

“In the morning they (the drivers) brewed tea from the leaves of some plant in a pot. Local, most likely. We drank a small mug of this decoction and we hit the road.

Nothing but this tea. Until lunchtime. I watched them carefully. They didn't drink or eat anything along the way. For lunch they ate a handful of dates and some roots, and washed it all down with water. Then, without resting, we continued on our way.

“How can that be,” I thought, “after all, these are camels. You can milk nutritious fatty milk and satisfy your hunger.”

But none of this happened. As it turned out later, all these pack animals were males. Females and cubs remained in their homes under the supervision of women and children.

At dinner, just before going to bed, the tuba again ate several roots, washing them down with a decoction from the leaves of plants unknown to us.”



As it turned out, the Tubu were vegetarians. Their food contains only dates, cereals and the roots we have already mentioned.

How? How they, without eating protein, camel milk, finally, if there is no other living creature nearby, can cover such distances with a caravan. Everything is clear with a camel, but not with them. They're people!

Scientists, those from jeeps, have not been able to fully understand the phenomenon of endurance of this people. Or maybe they found out, but didn’t want to share with others. You know, “you need such a cow yourself.”