by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 16, 2023 | Nutrition
Advertisers are claiming that berberine (an over-the-counter herbal supplement) is “nature’s Ozempic for weight loss,” but there is not adequate data to support this claim. The main reason that we are being exposed to such heavy advertising for berberine now is...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 11, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Gustav Born was a physician and pharmacologist who taught the world about blood clotting. In 1945, he was posted as a British army doctor in Hiroshima, and noticed that most of the survivors of the atomic bomb suffered from chronic bleeding. He demonstrated that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 10, 2023 | Heart Health
There are many ways to measure risk factors for having a heart attack, but since the 1950s the criteria used most by doctors to predict your likelihood to suffer a heart attack has been that HDL (“Healthy”) cholesterol predicts protection, and the LDL...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 10, 2023 | Diabetes
More than 80 million North Americans suffer from a fatty liver and many do not know that they have it because most people with a fatty liver have normal liver function blood tests in the early stages of the disease. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 9, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Every physician eventually is asked to treat patients who fake illness, usually to get attention or personal gain. In 1951, British physician Dr. Robert Asher described three patients who went from doctor to doctor with multiple fictional symptoms, many unexplained...
