I drank beer made out of yucca root that native women spit into the ground and let ferment. I ate worms and grubs raw.
I was living with the Guarani tribe in Peru and I wanted to find out their secrets for healing herbs.
But what I found turned out to be even more valuable.
Were These Native Americans Real-Life "Super Men"?
When I was in Arizona getting ready to climb Humphreys Peak, I did some research on Native Americans.
Back in the old West, Native Americans enjoyed a kind of power and vigor that is hard for us to understand or believe.
Cabeza de Vaca, one of the first Europeans to explore what is now Texas and the Southwest in the 16th century, lived among the Native Americans for eight years.
He observed, “One Native American ran down a buffalo on foot and killed it with his knife as he ran by its side.”…