by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Getting credit for a great scientific discovery is sometimes just a matter of luck. You all know that penicillin can be made by fungi to kill bacteria, but most of you do not know the sad story that more than 120 years ago, antibiotics were first discovered by an...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 23, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
When I was in medical school way back in the 1950’s, a popular drinking song at every party was “Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” I still remember every word of the song. It is about a woman who made a lot of money selling a tonic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 20, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Peter Snell was a New Zealand runner who won three gold medals in the 800 and 1500 meter races in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. He also set two Olympic records and seven world records. In 1962, at age 24, he won an 800-meter race in the world record time of 1:44.3. That...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 9, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
C.W. Post was a brilliant huckster who invented Grape Nuts and Postum. He founded Post Cereals, which eventually became General Foods, one of the largest processed food companies in the world. Post spent his entire life suffering many real and imagined illnesses. At...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
George Jones and Tammy Wynette, perhaps the most popular married country-singing couple of all time, told us a lot about marriage and divorce in their songs. They were married for only seven years, but they wrote and sang together while they were married and for...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 26, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
At age 21, Dallas McCarver won the International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness (IFBB) North American Bodybuilding Championship to become the youngest professional bodybuilder ever to win a pro qualifier competition. In the next five years, he grew to weigh...
