by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 14, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Jack Lemmon was an actor who starred in more than 60 films, won two Academy Awards and was nominated eight times. He was born into a wealthy but abusive family and died at age 76 from complications of colon cancer that had spread to his bladder. From birth on, Lemmon...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 7, 2019 | Heart Health
The CARDIA Study shows that having certain types of bacteria in your colon is associated with having high blood pressure (Hypertension, Mar 25, 2019), and that you can lower blood pressure by improving the proportion of healthful to unhealthful bacteria in your colon....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 7, 2019 | Nutrition
Strong data associate eating red and processed meats regularly with increased risk for heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, some types of cancers and other diseases, but until now we had no good data to show whether eating small amounts of meat may be...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2019 | Heart Health
You have more than 100 trillion bacteria living in your colon, with some types that are helpful and other types that are harmful. With aging, the ratio of good to bad types of bacteria appears to change, increasing the amounts of harmful bacteria and reducing the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
On January 26, 1979, Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States, a four-term governor of New York and an heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died at age 70 of a heart attack that was rumored to have occurred during extramarital sex. New York...
