by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 26, 2019 | Nutrition
A small but well-designed study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows how eating processed foods, compared to unprocessed foods, leads you to eat more calories per day and gain more weight (Cell Metabolism, May 16, 2019). Twenty people lived in a lab for...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 26, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
I love stories about quacks who become prophets. Horace Fletcher was known as "The Great Masticator" who said, "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." More than 100 years ago, in 1913, his book ...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2019 | Fitness
You don’t need special sports drinks or power bars. Even the most elite athletes can get the nutrients they need from ordinary foods, water and salt. Healthy and fit people usually don’t need to eat during a bicycle ride when they cycle at a casual pace...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 19, 2019 | Fitness
People who want to grow larger muscles spend more than 10 million dollars a year on whey protein shakes. A study on mice showed that these whey protein shakes contain very high levels of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), which can reduce certain brain hormones to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2019 | Fitness
The more intensely you exercise, the less likely you are to suffer a heart attack, even though heart attacks can be caused by intense exercise in some people who already have irregular heartbeats or blocked arteries leading to their hearts. • Researchers had 4582 men...
