Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

We have to stay sharp at Zoe. Nutrition science moves fast, so it's important for us to stay up to date with new discoveries and the latest advice.

However, every now and there, it helps to look back, way back.

And in this recap, we're turning to a rather unusual teacher, a 5,000-year-old ice man,

preserved in ice and carrying clues about the diet of our ancient ancestors. I'm joined by Frank

Maxner and Professor Tim Specter to uncover what

this prehistoric man ate and what those findings can teach us about our diet today.

Frank, can you tell us about what happened, I think about 30 years ago, high in the mountains,

you know, between Italy and Austria? Yeah, it was in 1991, actually.

So there was this couple from Nuremberg, Erica and Helmut Simon.

They made holidays and they were on a hike in the mountains in the Alpine Ridge between Austria and

Italy.

And it was quite late already at the day.

And then they need to take a

shortcut back to the hut there. And when doing this, they stumbled over a body which was still

sticking half in the ice. And they immediately thought that this maybe is a hiker or skier who

died up there and they informed

the hut owner and he informed then the Italian police which then not felt responsible for this

and they then said the Austrians should take over this case and yeah this body was recovered

and it was for a long time not considered pressures. It took some days actually

until an archaeologist had a look at this finding and it turned out that it's a 5,300-year-old

mummy who died up there. And this was the start of this research on the iceman, actually.

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