by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 13, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Actor Donald Sutherland died on June 20, 2024, after suffering from prostate cancer and severe lung damage from smoking up to four packs of cigarettes per day. Several years before he died, he stopped smoking and wouldn’t let anyone smoke near him. He kept smokers at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 11, 2024 | Diabetes
Having a fatty liver is associated with a marked increase in heart attacks and liver damage, even in people who are not overweight (Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol, 2017 Oct;15(10):1604-1611). Getting both obese and normal weight people to lose weight helps them to get fat...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 10, 2024 | Nutrition
Extensive research has found that a plant-based diet is significantly less likely than a meat-based diet to be associated with increased risk for heart attacks or diabetes (American J of Preventive Cardiology, Sept 2021;7:100182). Entrepreneurs in the plant-meat...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
The track world has lost an epic coach, and society has lost a man who helped to develop leaders among his aspiring athletes. Johnson died of prostate cancer on June 29, 2024, at age 89. He coached athletes in track and field for more than fifty years, with...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 8, 2024 | Fitness
Everyone loses muscle size and strength with aging, to increase risk for disability, accidents, diseases, loss of independence and premature death (J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2018;9:3–19). Loss of muscle is called sarcopenia. You lose about 10 percent for each 10...
