by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2024 | Other Diseases & Conditions
All people can develop body odor when certain bacteria or fungi colonize on their skin. Normal sweat doesn’t smell when it first reaches your skin. The odor usually comes only after certain microbes on the skin’s surface break down the fat in sweat to form chemicals...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 1, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A study of 44,000 Swedish adults, 64 to 99 years of age, followed for up to 35 years, found that 2.7 percent (1,224) lived to their 100th birthday (Geroscience, Nov 4, 2023). Among the 1,224 centenarians in this study, 84 percent were women. The researchers wanted to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 16, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Refusing to wear a mask when you have a respiratory infection and are near other people shows total disregard for their health. We have just gone through the major portion of a COVID-19 epidemic and can expect other epidemics from this and other viruses in the future....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 29, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 20 million new cases of venereal diseases occur every year. One out of five North American adults have a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and STDs cost the U.S. healthcare system nearly $16 billion/year...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 8, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
An early colon cancer often has no symptoms whatever, so screening tests can boost survival rates by diagnosing a colon cancer before it has caused symptoms and spread to other parts of the body (Prz Gastroenterol, Jan 6, 2019;14(2):89–103). Polyps detected in any of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 1, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A study from Spain called the Vallecas Project has followed 1169 non-demented people, average age 74.4, for six years and found that some of the participants had memory test scores that were equal to people who were 30 years younger. The authors call the high-scorers...
