by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 15, 2023 | Nutrition
Staying hydrated may slow the aging process. NIH researchers followed 11,255 adults for 30 years and found that compared to those who didn’t drink enough fluids, those who stayed well-hydrated: • aged more slowly, • lived longer, and • were far less likely to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 15, 2023 | Nutrition
A group of 54 very obese children, 5 to 17 year of age, were placed on a standard weight loss diet plus either a butyrate supplement or a placebo for six months (JAMA Netw Open, Dec 5, 2022;5(12):e2244912). The butyrate group took sodium butyrate capsules, 20 mg/kg...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 8, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Barbara Walters was a brilliant television broadcaster for 65 years from 1951 through 2015. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time made her the one chosen to interview some of the world’s most famous people, including: Fidel Castro, Anwar Sadat,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 7, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
About 22 percent of North Americans ages 85-89 and 33 percent of those over 90 suffer some degree of dementia (JAMA Neurol, 2022;79(12):1242-1249). A study from the Chicago Health and Aging Project, which followed 2449 men and women over age 65, suggests that there is...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 6, 2023 | Nutrition
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that people with high blood levels of a chemical called phenylacetylglutamine (PAG) are at high risk for heart failure that affects more than 6.2 million North Americans (Circulation: Heart Failure, Dec 16, 2022;e009972). PAG...
