by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Nutrition
Fish oil pills are the third most-bought food supplement, after vitamins and minerals, and are bought by 10 percent of North Americans at a cost of about $1.2 billion each year. Fish oil pills have not been shown to help prevent heart attacks, even though people who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Erich Segal was on the track team with me at Harvard and ran the Boston Marathon with me several times. Both of us were mediocre runners trying to prove ourselves. A line in one of his novels, The Class, described both of us: “Fear of death is universal. But...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 20, 2016 | Women's Health
Women pay millions of dollars for products that are supposed to get rid of cellulite, but there is no such thing as cellulite. The fat on a woman's hips and thighs is the same as the fat anywhere else. She has skin on the outside, fat in the middle and muscles and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 19, 2016 | Men's Health
Prostate infections are extremely difficult to diagnose and treat because many doctors do not order the right tests and even when they make the correct diagnosis, they often fail to treat the condition long enough or they fail to treat infected partners. SYMPTOMS:...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 17, 2016 | Nutrition
North Americans are killing themselves by eating too much of the wrong foods. Half of all U.S. adults suffer from chronic diseases caused by unhealthful diets and two-thirds are markedly overweight. To help correct this, the Dietary Guidelines issued in 2016 by the...
