by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 6, 2014 | Heart Health
Knowing when to take your blood pressure can help you predict your likelihood of suffering a heart attack. We know that having high blood pressure markedly increases your risk for heart attacks. Blood pressure is usually lowest just before you go to bed at night and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 6, 2014 | Men's Health
Metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes are characterized by high blood sugar, insulin, and triglycerides, low HDL and a fatty liver and obesity. Of 490 male adults, average age 58 years old, 37 percent with lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTS) had metabolic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 9, 2014 | Men's Health
Researchers reviewed the medical records of 55,593 men who were given testosterone for low testosterone levels and/or sexual dysfunction and compared them to men who received Viagra or Cialis but no testosterone. After three months, the risk for heart attacks was...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 1, 2014 | Heart Health
Twenty years ago, reports from Harvard School of Public Health showed that a diet rich in plants lowers high blood pressure (1,2). It’s called the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.) Other studies show that similar eating patterns lower...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 1, 2014 | Joints & Bones
Doctors often prescribe aspirin and nonsteroidal medicines to people who suffer pain from surgery and injury, but they do not help you recover faster from muscle injuries (1,2,3) , broken bones, joint damage, surgery including joint replacement (12) or muscle soreness...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 24, 2013 | Heart Health
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) formulated guidelines for prescribing statin drugs to prevent heart attacks (J Am Coll Cardiol, Nov 2013;62(16):e147-e239). The old...
