by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 16, 2014 | Men's Health
It should bother you that the nutritional supplement industry is unregulated because there is no way to tell what a supplement contains. Several different studies have shown that at least one third of nutritional supplements do not supply what is on the label. An...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 16, 2014 | Men's Health
I have been asked by hundreds of men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer whether they should be treated with surgery or radiation, or just watch and wait. One study showed that men under 60 who are in excellent health and are destined to live long lives may...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2014 | Women's Health
Dry skin means lack of water, not lack of oil. Skin creams function by creating a temporary barrier on your skin that seals in water. In the late 1940’s, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital took a hard callus off the foot of one of his patients and placed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2014 | Nutrition
You have cold receptors in your skin and these cold receptors are different from your skin's heat and pain receptors. Now we have an explanation for the deception in advertisements for body wrapping to lose weight. You go to a special salon where an attendant...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 12, 2014 | Nutrition
Many health writers make the topic of sugar so complicated that nobody can understand it. It’s very simple. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Your body treats the sugar in an apple the same way that it treats all other sources of sugar. The difference is that an apple...
