by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 3, 2015 | Fitness
Eating during and after long, intense workouts helps competitive athletes recover faster from their workouts and therefore helps to make them stronger and faster. It is the intense workout that makes you stronger and faster, so the more rapidly you recover from an...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 27, 2015 | Nutrition
Lifestyle changes that affect gut bacteria may help to prevent and treat auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. More than 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases that look just like a person has an infection because laboratory...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 27, 2015 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Pinch the skin over your belly. If your fingers are three or more inches apart, you are at increased risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, and certain cancers (J Am Coll Cardiol, 2013;62(10):921-925). Harvard University researchers show that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 21, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
In the past month, two former National Basketball Association giant centers died of heart attacks: Daryl Dawkins on August 27 at age 58 and Moses Malone on September 13 at age 60 . Both were 6′ 10″ tall, weighed more than 250 pounds, and went directly from...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 16, 2015 | Fitness
When I wrote my best-selling Sportsmedicine Book in 1978, I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries (Little Brown and Co., page 94). Ice has been a standard treatment for injuries and sore muscles because it...
