by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2018 | Nutrition
The hottest area of medical research today may well be on the bacteria that live in your gut to affect how much you weigh, how long you live, and your susceptibility to many diseases. In the largest and most complete study of its kind ever, researchers analyzed genes...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2018 | Fitness
A study in mice suggests that having low levels of vitamin D may harm athletes and exercisers by limiting how long they can exercise (Aging, June 2018). Six-month old mice were put on a low vitamin D diet for one year. A six-month-old mouse is equivalent to a 25 year...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Donald Ritchie ran more than 208,100 miles during his lifetime as one of the best ultramarathon runners of all time. He set more than a dozen international records for distances from 50 kilometers to 200 kilometers. Exercise has been shown in hundreds of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 1, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Nearly fifty percent of people over 85 suffer from symptoms of dementia of which Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive loss of brain cells, is the most common form. The second most common type of dementia comes from repeated strokes. This month researchers offer...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 1, 2018 | Nutrition
Fasting can help people lose weight and slow the diseases being overweight causes (Obesity, Feb 2018;26(2):254-268). For several years I have been recommending the various types of intermittent fasting, but perhaps the easiest way to use fasting for weight loss and...