by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2020 | Nutrition
At one time I followed a vegan diet and ate no animal products at all, primarily based on data that associated eating mammal meat and processed meats with increased risk for diabetes, heart attacks, certain cancers and premature death. However, a couple years ago I...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 10, 2020 | Heart Health
Athletes in sports requiring great strength who eat a very-high protein diet increase their risk for dying at a young age of heart attacks, even though protein loading does not grow larger muscles. A study by Stanley Hazen at the Cleveland Clinic has identified a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 9, 2020 | Nutrition
A study in mice showed that increasing dietary protein from 15 percent to 46 percent of calories caused the mice to develop 30 percent more arterial plaques than mice on their normal-protein diet, even though they did not gain more weight (Nature Metabolism, Jan 23,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 6, 2019 | Fitness
A review of 49 studies on a total of 1800 weightlifters, who lifted at least twice a week for at least six weeks, found that doubling the recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of protein increased strength gains by nine percent and added about a pound of muscle (British...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 8, 2017 | Fitness
A researcher posing as a 15-year-old football player called 244 health food stores across the United States and asked if they would sell him protein supplements to give him larger muscles. More than two-thirds of sales attendants at the health food stores recommended...
