by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 13, 2014 | Fitness
When you run very fast, you reach a point where you gasp for breath. You keep on pushing the pace and after a few seconds, you feel that you have recovered and that you can pick up the pace again. It’s called second wind and your apparent recovery is caused by...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 6, 2014 | Heart Health
Knowing when to take your blood pressure can help you predict your likelihood of suffering a heart attack. We know that having high blood pressure markedly increases your risk for heart attacks. Blood pressure is usually lowest just before you go to bed at night and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 6, 2014 | Men's Health
Metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes are characterized by high blood sugar, insulin, and triglycerides, low HDL and a fatty liver and obesity. Of 490 male adults, average age 58 years old, 37 percent with lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTS) had metabolic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Toshiko D’Elia, who broke many age-group world marathon records for women over 50, died of brain cancer on February 19, 2014. She was the first woman over age 50 to run a marathon in under three hours, in 2:57:25 (August, 1980) and the first woman over age 65 to run...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 2, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
He was born in 1899 in Brooklyn to Italian immigrant parents and showed evidence early in life that he had no respect for people, the law or the rules of society. At age 14, he was expelled from school for punching a female teacher in the face. How he Made Friends He...
