by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 10, 2015 | Joints & Bones
COPIED FROM WAYBACK MACHINE Archive of www,drmirkin.com before 2015 Arthritis Treatments – J106 2/9/2011 Gabe Mirkin There are two major types of arthritis: osteoarthritis, also called degenerative arthritis, and reactive arthritis. Osteoarthritis means that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 4, 2015 | Nutrition
This week, Dr. Ajit Varki of the University of California at San Diego showed for the first time that feeding genetically-engineered mice a sugar called Neu5Gc, found in red meat, caused them to produce anti-Neu5Gc antibodies that caused spontaneous cancers...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 2, 2015 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Millions of North Americans take zinc lozenges to treat their colds. A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine (November 1997) showed that they neither shorten the cold nor lessen its symptoms. Another study from the University of Virginia showed that zinc nasal...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 1, 2015 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The most common cause of senility in North America is Alzheimer’s disease, a horrible condition in which a person loses his capacity to reason, think, recognize and function. Former president Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s disease, as do some Nobel Prize...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 1, 2015 | Other Diseases & Conditions
All people smell when they don’t bathe often enough. Sweat doesn’t smell when it first reaches your skin. The odor comes only after bacteria or fungi on the skin’s surface break down the fat in sweat to form chemicals that smell. Most sweat glands...