by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 23, 2017 | Heart Health
Two breakthrough studies have given the best explanation yet of how exercise helps to prevent heart attacks. Competitive older endurance athletes may have more plaques in their arteries than non-exercisers, but they have the type of plaques that are far less likely to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 23, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
My report on Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques, showing that vigorous exercise in later life helps to prevent heart attacks by stabilizing plaques, should be a strong stimulus for people to continue exercising at any age. This week at the USA Track and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Medical fraud is as rampant today as it has always been, but John Brinkley was among the greatest medical frauds of all time. From the 1920s onward, between World War I and World War II, he became fabulously wealthy by surgically implanting the testicles of goats into...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2017 | Fitness
A study io mice showed why taking NSAIDS (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs), to reduce muscle pain before, during or after exercise, can reduce the gains in endurance from aerobic training (PNAS, June 27, 2017;114(26):6675–6684). The processes that heal damaged...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2017 | Diabetes
Researchers followed 63,257 Chinese adults aged 45–74 for an average of 10.9 years and found that eating red meat was associated with increased risk for developing diabetes. The authors suggest that it may be the iron in meat that could cause diabetes (American...
