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...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 27, 2016 | Nutrition
A review of studies written since January 2015 shows that you do not benefit from taking high doses of vitamin D or having very high blood levels of that vitamin. The Institute of Medicine recommends that adults need only 600–800 IU of vitamin D per day and that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 27, 2016 | Diabetes
If you store the extra fat in your buttocks and thighs, you are at low risk for being harmed by that extra fat. However, if you store the extra fat primarily in your belly, you are at high risk for becoming diabetic and dying prematurely. People with tiny buttocks and...
