by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 7, 2017 | Women's Health
The majority of women who have burning on urination, frequency and urgency have urinary tract infections, even if their cultures do not grow any germs (Clinical Microbiology and Infection, published online April 28, 2017). In addition to a standard urine culture,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60 (CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, April 6, 2017)....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2017 | Diabetes
Several studies show that the high blood sugar of diabetes can be caused by excess fat in: • the liver (JAMA, February 14, 2017), • the muscles (J Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, April 2017) and • the pancreas ((Diabetes Care, December 2015). Diabetes...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 9, 2017 | Joints & Bones
Several studies suggest that inflammation associated with a faulty diet, lack of exercise, overweight and lack of vitamin D increases risk for autoimmune diseases, but there is no strong evidence yet to show that any diet will cure auto-immune disease. Examples of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 2, 2017 | Men's Health
One in three North American adults have to get up to urinate more than twice a night, and a study presented at the European Society of Urology shows that the most common cause may be taking in too much salt (International Journal of Urology, Mar 14, 2017;24(3))....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A diet that is high in either red meat or sugar, or both, increases the growth in the colon of bacteria called Fusobacterium nucleatum that appears to suppress a person’s immunity to increase the growth of cancer cells in the colon. A prospective study of...
