by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 25, 2024 | Fitness
Competitive athletes train by “stressing and recovering,” and healthy people who do not compete in sports can gain greater benefits from their exercise programs by using this same training principle. You have to damage muscles to gain strength and enlarge...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 25, 2024 | Nutrition
Most of you already know that weight gain, diabetes and heart attacks are associated with eating pro-inflammatory foods such as mammal meat, sugar-added foods and fried foods. However, you may not know that people who eat their meals very fast (an average of less than...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 20, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Akebono Taro was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach the highest rank in Sumo wrestling and he was also one of the tallest and heaviest Sumo wrestlers ever at 6′ 8″ in height and more than 500 pounds in weight. Taro retired from wrestling in...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 20, 2024 | Fitness
How Muscles Become StrongerEach muscle fiber is made of a series of blocks called sarcomeres that are lined up end to end. Each sarcomere is attached to the one next to it at a “Z line.” Muscle fibers do not contract equally along their lengths; they...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 18, 2024 | Nutrition
The bacteria in your colon may help to determine whether you:• become obese (European Congress on Obesity, April 2, 2024)• have high cholesterol (Cell, April 2, 2024)• are at increased risk for suffering a heart attack (Int J Mol Sci, 2021 Aug; 22(15): 8074)• are at...
