by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 24, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Isaac Asimov probably had more of his writings published than any other person in history with more than 500 books, mostly science fiction and popular science. As a child, he was short, fat and uncoordinated and never learned to swim or ride a bike. As an adult, he...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2020 | Heart Health
You have two blood pressures: the systolic that measures blood pressure when your heart contracts, and the much lower diastolic reading that measures the pressure when your heart relaxes. When your heart contracts, it pushes a huge amount of blood forward to your...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Infection with COVID-19 comes primarily from breathing air in indoor spaces where people with the coronavirus have been, and the more virus you breathe in, the more likely you are to become infected. • Some people appear to be super contagious, and we don’t know why....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 16, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Sumner Redstone was a media magnate worth about five billion dollars, through his innovations and investments in radio, television, and movies. In 2016, at age 92, he resigned from being the executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom because of a court-ordered...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 16, 2020 | Nutrition
Overweight people who lose weight without dieting after age 65 are at high risk for dementia (Age and Ageing, May 2019;48(3):367–373). For 15 years, the authors followed 257,523 overweight but otherwise healthy people and compared them to 161,927 people who had...
