by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Heart Health
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that one of the best tests to predict your risk for having a heart attack is your Recovery Heart Rate. Recovery heart rate is a measure of fitness and a slow recovery from exercise means that you are out of shape....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Heart Health
Doctors no longer predict your chances of suffering a heart attack by how high your total cholesterol is. The current guidelines recommend that everyone should have a blood level of the bad LDL cholesterol below 100. If you live in Canada, divide the American number...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Heart Health
One in ten Americans suffers from mitral valve prolapse and the vast majority have no symptoms and will never know that they have it. Valves are located in your heart to keep blood from backing up. With aging, some of these valves can stretch and fail to close...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Diabetes
Most people who develop diabetes in later life can be controlled so that they are not at increased risk for the many complications of diabetes such as heart attacks, strokes, blindness, deafness, amputations, kidney failure, burning foot syndrome, venous insufficiency...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 19, 2013 | Men's Health
If you are a man who finds it difficult to start your stream, check with your doctor to see if you have an infection or a benign or cancerous enlargement of your prostate. Your doctor usually examines your prostate for potentially cancerous nodules, orders a PSA blood...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 19, 2013 | Men's Health
As men age from 50 to 70, their testosterone levels drop more than 40 percent, causing them to become fatter, and less sexual, muscular and assertive and have smaller, weaker bones (7,11). Twenty percent of men aged 60-80 years have testosterone levels below the lower...
