by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 21, 2019 | Deaths of Famous People
Earl Thomas Conley was a country music singer-songwriter who during the 1980s and 1990s had 24 Top-10 country singles including 18 that were Number One. Only Alabama and Ronnie Milsap had more number one hits during the decade. This month, at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 14, 2019 | Nutrition
Hundreds of studies done in the last 15 years have shown how your microbiome (gut bacteria) helps you to retain your health (Aliment Pharmacol Ther, 2019;49(5):506-515), and that what you eat determines the ratio of healthful to harmful types of bacteria in your...
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...
