To know how digestion works provides insight into the proper care of the system and helps us understand what is going wrong when discomfort or disease appears. The post Episode 10: Digestion Top to Bottom first appeared on Mark Timon.

To know how digestion works provides insight into the proper care of the system and helps us understand what is going wrong when discomfort or disease appears.

The new term, Functional Foods, is being used more and more to attract buyers to foods with allegedly rich health benefits. What lies behind the claim? The post What’s All the Hullaballoo about Functional Foods? first appeared on Mark Timon.

Wrap your mind around a new concept: FUNCTIONAL FOODS. What are they? Where did they come from?

Old Rosie spent her life hauling milk to the train with farmer Dilly. But retirement can be tough, leading to misadventures and misunderstandings. The post OLD ROSIE, The Horse Nobody Understood first appeared on Mark Timon.

Our ancestors chose food by trail and error. Are all the foods we eat really good for us? We are only now learning through science what the good and bad features of our diets might be. See what the Global Burden of Disease study can tell us. The post Episode 8: Still Clueless After All These Years first appeared on Mark Timon.

Figuring out what to eat has always been a hit-or-miss proposition. If it didn’t kill our ancestors, we kept eating it. Find out what the Global Burden of Disease study can tell us about the connection between diet and disease and what to do to be healthy.

Glycation will always be a present danger but you can adopt dietary and lifestyle practices that can control and remove them. If you exercise regularly, don’t eat sugar or sweets, ignore grain-based foods, avoid soft drinks and fruit juices; if you eat lots of antioxidant-rich, non-starchy vegetables and colorful fruits that are loaded with antioxidants, and if you supplement your diet with additional botanical antioxidants, carnosine, and CSA, then you can probably reduce glycation end...

Glycation can steal your vitality and shorten your life. It is always a clear and present danger. Find out how to fight back and win in Episode 7.

Blood sugar and dietary sugars can enter into an unholy alliance with bodily proteins to form glycation products that stiffen tissues and destroy your health. Learn abou tyour enemy and how to defeat him in Episodes 6 and 7, Don't be Such a Stiff, Parts 1 & 2. The post Episode 6: Don't be Such a Stiff, Part 1: Understanding AGEs, dAGES, and RAGEs first appeared on Mark Timon.

Mixing protein, amino acids, or your DNA with sugar can be risky business. Over time, glucose, galactose, and especially fructose combine with all sorts of proteins to stiffen arteries, steal vitality, and rush you toward old age. It helps to know your enemy…and then find a way to defeat him.

How does red meat cause debilitating diseases? The mystery has puzzled researchers for decades…until now. Discover a tiny simple sugar that appears to be the smoking gun behind red meat’s contribution to our epidemics of heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer.

How does red meat cause debilitating diseases? The mystery has puzzled researchers for decades…until now. Discover a tiny simple sugar that appears to be the smoking gun behind red meat’s contribution to our epidemics of heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer.

From the beginning, we’ve heard how overwhelming inflammation in severe cases of COVID-19 can destroy the lungs and damage the heart or lead to death. Episode 4 unravels the biology of those dangerous events and offers protective dietary practices and dietary supplements that may restore health and preserve life.

From the beginning, we’ve heard how overwhelming inflammation in severe cases of COVID-19 can destroy the lungs and damage the heart or lead to death.  Episode 4 unravels the biology of those dangerous events and offers protective dietary practices and dietary supplements that may restore health and preserve life.

New information on how COVID-19 damages organs reveals what foods and dietary supplements may offer protection against complications of the disease.

New information on how COVID-19 damages organs reveals what foods and dietary supplements may offer protection against complications of the disease.

Do you remember Jim Fixx? He was an overweight smoker of two packs a day who remade himself into the running guru of the world. While running solo near his home in Hardwick, Vermont, he paused at the side of the road, perhaps to let traffic slip by before crossing over the roadway. Then his heart stopped and he did cross over. Jim Fixx was dead at age 52. How could that happen? We'll dig into his habits and lifestyle to build the cautionary tale that is Jim's lasting legacy.

Running guru, Jim Fixx, offers a cautionary tale on the dire consequences of ignoring the essential demands of biochemistry. We’ll dig deep into how his early smoking habit and disregard for a healthy diet led to his untimely death.

Step way back in time to see how we became who we are and see what that tells us about our diets today. Along the way, we’ll learn why the Paleolithic Diet is such a hot topic and whether it should be … or not

Examine what we ate from the origins of the human diet to today. See how agriculture, trial and error, and a lack of science has kicked us off the path to optimal health.

If you want to know how to build better health and fortify yourself against disease, then this podcast is for you. Mark Timon, The Healthy Geezer, has studied the nutrition and biochemistry behind health and disease for over 49 years. In The Healthy Geezer podcasts, he passes along salient information on current topics in Nutrition, Health, and Disease. Here you can learn the latest information about what to do to make and keep yourself well. Pick up fascinating facts on general &...