by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 6, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
John Urschel, arguably the smartest player in the National Football League (NFL), just retired from football at age 26 to avoid concussions that can cause brain damage, known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. He will finish his course work for a Ph.D....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Nutrition
If you take a sugared drink while eating meat, the animal protein reduces your ability to burn off the calories from sugar by more than a third (BMC Nutrition, July 20, 2017). In this elegant new study, 27 healthy-weight adults spent two full days in a sealed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Nutrition
Nobody has presented good evidence that eating meat from grass-fed animals is more healthful than the meat from corn-fed animals. The main health arguments for eating grass-fed meat are its lower fat content and higher content of omega-3 fatty acids (Meat Science,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world's most renowned painters, but during his lifetime, he sold only one of his paintings, The Red Vineyard, even though he painted more than 900 canvases and penned more than 1100 drawings and sketches. He lived most of his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 23, 2017 | Heart Health
Two breakthrough studies have given the best explanation yet of how exercise helps to prevent heart attacks. Competitive older endurance athletes may have more plaques in their arteries than non-exercisers, but they have the type of plaques that are far less likely to...
