by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Fitness
If you want to protect yourself from infections, exercise regularly and lose weight if you are overweight. A new study on mice shows how exercise helps to strengthen your immunity (Sci Rep, November 6, 2015;5:16364). When germs get into your body, you produce certain...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 10, 2016 | Fitness
Your maximum heart rate is the fastest your heart can beat and still pump blood effectively through your body. As you age, your maximum heart rate drops. This means that your heart is weaker and more susceptible to damage, and you can’t exercise as fast over...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Fitness
I do not run anymore and virtually all of the runners who ran with me in the 1940s through 1960s don’t run either, mostly because of the very high rate of running injuries. Eighty percent of long-distance runners suffer injuries that force them to take time off...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 29, 2015 | Fitness
People who exercise into later life are smarter than those who do not exercise. To prove that exercise preserves brain function, studies must show that the loss of brain function with aging is not just genetic. Identical twins have exactly the same genes, so a study...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 1, 2015 | Fitness
Can athletes improve their performance by following a diet that is low in carbohydrates and high in fat (LCHF)? Several popular sports magazines have carried articles advocating LCHF diets, even though at present there is no data to support this regimen for sports...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 25, 2015 | Fitness
I think that asking people to stand at work, rather than sit, is harmful advice because standing and not moving is no better than sitting and is just going to make you too tired to exercise vigorously when you are not working. The highly-publicized studies that showed...
