diff --git a/docs/Timers.md b/docs/Timers.md
index dd6152c98..44cc093ae 100644
--- a/docs/Timers.md
+++ b/docs/Timers.md
@@ -71,5 +71,4 @@ var Component = React.createClass({
 });
 ```
 
-We strongly discourage using `setTimeout(...)` and recommend using `this.setTimeout(...)`. 
-This will eliminate a lot of hard work tracking down bugs.
+We strongly discourage using the global `setTimeout(...)` and recommend instead that you use `this.setTimeout(...)` provided by react-timer-mixin. This will eliminate a lot of hard work tracking down bugs, such as crashes caused by timeouts firing after a component has been unmounted.