by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 28, 2018 | Fitness
Dramatic results in a study from the Cleveland Clinic show that: • You can’t be too fit: Elite athletes who do tremendous amounts of exercise have a much lower risk of dying than non-exercisers. • Exercise is healthful: Not exercising is worse for your health...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 28, 2018 | Nutrition
Processed soluble fiber added to low-fiber foods led to liver cancers in mice, probably by preventing the liver from clearing bile from the body (Cell, October 18, 2018;175(3):679-694). Soluble fiber is felt to be one of the most healthful components of foods, and has...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 28, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Paul Allen was ranked as the 44th-richest person in the world ($20.3 billion), co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and then went on to found his own company, Vulcan Inc., that owned research, media, technology and spaceflight companies. He owned three major...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 21, 2018 | Fitness
“Cooling down” means that after you exercise intensely, you slow down and exercise at low intensity for a while before you stop exercising for that session. The scientific literature is controversial on whether cooling down helps to reduce next-day muscle...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 21, 2018 | Fitness
To make muscles stronger, you need to exercise intensely enough to damage the muscles. You can tell that you are damaging muscles when you exercise vigorously enough to feel soreness in those muscles eight to 24 hours later, which is called Delayed Onset Muscle...
