by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 10, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
How would your life have turned out if you: • were the daughter of music legend Nat King Cole and famous singer Maria Hawkins Ellington, • were raised in the affluent Hancock Park district of Los Angeles, • were surrounded by incredible wealth (in a family called...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 6, 2016 | Joints & Bones
When you complain that your knees hurt, your doctor tries to find a cause. If he finds no known cause, he tells you that you have osteoarthritis. We don’t have the foggiest idea what causes osteoarthritis and no effective treatment except pain medicines. A study...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Fitness
I do not run anymore and virtually all of the runners who ran with me in the 1940s through 1960s don’t run either, mostly because of the very high rate of running injuries. Eighty percent of long-distance runners suffer injuries that force them to take time off...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Nutrition
The average North American takes in 150 to 200 pounds of sugar a year. Most of your sugar intake comes from added sugars in drinks and packaged, frozen and canned foods that you buy in grocery stores or eat in restaurants. More than 75 percent of the packaged foods in...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
I love stories about quacks who become prophets. Medical breakthroughs are often made by doctors who are first ridiculed by their peers. In 1890, Dr. William Coley, a bone surgeon in New York City, found the medical records of a patient who was dying from cancer that...
