by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 21, 2016 | Heart Health
If you have pain in your chest, jaw, arm, or neck when you exercise, you could have angina, which is pain caused by reduced blood flow through narrowed arteries leading to your heart. You should check with a doctor as soon as possible. Symptoms of angina can also...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 21, 2016 | Fitness
Researchers collected data for 384 locations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and USA, and showed that 7.3 percent of deaths from 1985 to 2012 were due to cold weather while only 0.4 percent were due...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 14, 2016 | Men's Health
Heart attacks are the main cause of death in men diagnosed with prostate cancer (Circulation, Feb 4, 2016). More than 230,000 American men are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Because prostate cancer usually progresses so slowly, the more than three...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 14, 2016 | Nutrition
Controlled studies show that healthy athletes do not improve because of gluten-free diets (Med Sci Sports Exerc, 2015;47:2563-2570), yet as many as 60 percent of North Americans believe that a gluten-free diet will make them feel better (Dig Dis Sci,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 7, 2016 | Fitness
Taking extra fat during long distance running or cycling races will not help you to go faster or win the race. When you exercise intensely, your muscles burn mostly sugar and the more intensely you race, the greater the percentage of sugar that your muscles use....
