by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 5, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
As businesses and activities are re-opening, many people have decided to relax their precautions to avoid infection with COVID-19. If you are a person who is at high risk for complications from this virus, I believe that you should continue to be on guard. You are at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 30, 2020 | Heart Health
Your resting heart rate should average between 50 and 70 beats a minute. Athletes can have rates between 30 and 50 and still have healthy hearts, and your heart rate temporarily can go above 70 when you are sick, stressed or sleep deprived, but all people who have...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 28, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Dick Buerkle ran 3:54.93 to break the world record in the men’s indoor mile in 1978, and earned places on the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic teams. From age 12 onward, he had suffered considerable taunting from his classmates because he lost all the hair on his head...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 26, 2020 | Nutrition
You have more than 100 trillion bacteria in your colon, and some are healthful while others are harmful. The harmful types include those that eat choline and lecithin, two chemicals that are found in high concentrations in red meat and egg yolks. These colon bacteria...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 22, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
If you were alive during World War II, you probably remember Vera Lynn as the “Forces’ Sweetheart” of Great Britain’s resistance to Nazi Germany — but you don’t have to be that old to recognize her songs. Throughout the war she sang on...
