by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 27, 2016 | Diabetes
If you store the extra fat in your buttocks and thighs, you are at low risk for being harmed by that extra fat. However, if you store the extra fat primarily in your belly, you are at high risk for becoming diabetic and dying prematurely. People with tiny buttocks and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 20, 2016 | Heart Health
Forty percent of deaths in the United States are from heart disease, which kills more than 400,000 people each year. Soluble fiber (from beans, oats, peas, barley, nuts, fruits and vegetables) reduces high blood levels of Low-Density Cholesterol (LDL), one of the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 30, 2016 | Joints & Bones
Osteoarthritis affects almost 30 million North Americans, making it the most common joint disease. It damages cartilage most often in the knees, hips, fingers and spine and is associated with aging, trauma, and obesity, but its primary cause now appears to be an...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 9, 2016 | Other Diseases & Conditions
On October 3, the 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, a 71 year old Japanese scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, for his pioneering research on autophagy. His breakthrough work will advance efforts to prevent and treat cancers,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 2, 2016 | Heart Health
Up to 75 percent of people who are prescribed statins stop taking them within two years, and 65 percent of those patients reported that they stopped because of side effects, primarily muscle pain (Eur Heart J, 2015;36(17):1012-1022). A study from the Cleveland Clinic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2016 | Men's Health
More than 180,000 North American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, and more than 26,000 of those men will eventually die from the disease. Prostate cancer, unlike most other cancers, tends to grow very slowly and does not kill the majority of men...
