Staying healthy from 1 to 100

Dietger Mathias, born in 1939 in Berlin, studied chemistry and medicine in Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his doctoral degree in both subjects and his post-doctoral lecturer qualification in medicine; for one year, he was a research fellow under Severo Ochoa  at New York University, the 1959 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology. Afterwards, he spent two years as a research assistant at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the following eighteen years at Heidelberg University Hospital, where he earned his specialization in laboratory  medicine/transfusion medicine. From 1992 to 2012, Dr. Mathias ran a private practice in Geesthacht and Berlin, Germany.

Pivotal long-term.- The human body - a giant chemical factory.- Our food - an energy transfer medium .- Energy production.- Energy production when food is scarce.- Energy expenditure I - basal metabolic rate.- Energy expenditure II - heat production.-  Energy expenditure III - active metabolic rate.- Physical activity level.-  Control of energy metabolism in the brain.- Control of energy metabolism by endogenous hormones.- Control of energy metabolism - the reward system.