by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
When you are trying to lose excess weight, eat lots of leafy green vegetables. Researchers at Imperial College in London found that high-fiber foods from plants help people lose weight by causing the intestines to release an appetite-suppressing gut hormone called PYY...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
Recent interest in vitamin K2 has led advocates of grass-fed beef to focus on its vitamin K2 content (J of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, 2006;25;54(2):463-7) . Sellers of cow’s meat either let their cows eat grass, or they can make the cows fatter and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 19, 2024 | Nutrition
Doctors used 24-hour dietary recalls on 12,716 US adults, of whom 1290 suffered from constipation and 1067 had diarrhea. Those who ate the most ultra-processed foods had more than double the incidence of constipation as those who ate the least, and minimally-processed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 10, 2024 | Nutrition
Extensive research has found that a plant-based diet is significantly less likely than a meat-based diet to be associated with increased risk for heart attacks or diabetes (American J of Preventive Cardiology, Sept 2021;7:100182). Entrepreneurs in the plant-meat...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 7, 2024 | Nutrition
Some of the bacteria growing in your colon may help to protect you from getting infections throughout your body. Researchers cultured stool samples from more than 10,000 people, including more than 600 people hospitalized for serious infections. The stool was...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 18, 2024 | Nutrition
Nitrates from the foods you eat can be converted in your body to nitric oxide, which widens blood vessels to increase blood flow throughout your body, to improve exercise tolerance and to help prevent heart disease (Med Sci Sports Exerc, Feb 1, 2021;53(2):280-294;...
