by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 13, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Vitamin D deficiency increases risk for becoming infected with COVID-19, and for complications and death from the disease. • A study of 500 patients showed that those who had low blood levels of hydroxy vitamin D (<20ng/mL) were twice as likely as those with normal...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2020 | Fitness
A review of 22 scientific studies showed that adding a resistance program such as lifting weights to endurance sports such as running or cycling can increase muscle size and strength, with greater benefit from low volume, high-resistance weight lifting than high...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 6, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Chadwick Boseman was a movie actor who brilliantly portrayed baseball player Jackie Robinson (2013), singer James Brown (2014), and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (2017). In 2016, at age 40, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and never told the public about...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 3, 2020 | Nutrition
A study of 20 healthy, normal-weight people found that changing their evening meal from 6PM to 10PM significantly increased their markers for becoming obese and developing diabetes (J Clin Endocrinol Metab, Aug 1, 2020;105(8):dgaa354). They had: • higher blood sugar •...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 30, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Fuller Albright discovered more new diseases and their causes than any other person in the history of medicine. He founded modern endocrinology, the study of how glands work in your body. In his lifetime, he mentored most of the chairmen of the departments of...
