by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 30, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
How could Tom Fleming have died of a heart attack at the very young age of 65, when at one time, he was one of the best marathon runners in the world? Fleming won the New York City Marathon twice, finished second in the Boston Marathon twice, won the Jersey...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 23, 2017 | Nutrition
Nearly 20 percent of North American adults take vitamin D pills. It is true that it is difficult to get adequate levels of vitamin D from sunshine during the winter months, but vitamin D is not a miracle vitamin that treats and prevents all sorts of diseases. A recent...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60 (CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, April 6, 2017)....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2017 | Diabetes
Several studies show that the high blood sugar of diabetes can be caused by excess fat in: • the liver (JAMA, February 14, 2017), • the muscles (J Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, April 2017) and • the pancreas ((Diabetes Care, December 2015). Diabetes...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 9, 2017 | Nutrition
Researchers at Boston University and Harvard reviewed three studies following more than 225,000 adults over age 50, for eight to twenty years, and showed that being even slightly overweight can increase your risk of dying by six percent, and in those who are obese, by...
