by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2016 | Fitness
If you don’t exercise regularly and vigorously, expect to lose a significant amount of muscle strength as you age, and expect that loss of strength to reduce the quality of your life. A 15-year follow-up study showed that older people who lift weights at least...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2016 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Exercise is now recommended as part of the treatment for cancer by the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Cancer Society, the Oncology Nursing Society, the Commission...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who died on November 18, 2016 at the age of 96, was better than his peers in just about everything he did. He founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1972, where he and his team performed • almost 120,000 open heart...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2016 | Nutrition
This week, a study from Spain adds to the evidence that eating any type of meat (red, white processed, cured or organ meat) is associated with increased risk of colon cancer, and that cooking and processing meat increases risk (European Journal of Nutrition, Nov 24,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1927, Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for curing some patients with brain damage from syphilis by infecting them with malaria (Yale J Biol Med, June, 2013;86(2):245–254). He got the idea of causing...
