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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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 & clinical nutrition, aging, disease prevention, dietary supplementation, and more by listening to The Healthy Geezer podcasts.