by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2022 | Nutrition
A recent study on mice helps us understand how eating sugar can cause diabetes and obesity (Cell, August 29, 2022). Eating excess sugar can cause loss of protective T Helper cells (TH17 cells), to allow overgrowth of harmful bacteria that damage the linings of your...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2022 | Other Diseases & Conditions
More than 450 people are still dying every day from COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) have authorized the new bivalent COVID-19 vaccines as a single booster dose at least two months after primary or booster...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States by the slim margin of 112,827 votes. His Electoral College victory margin of 303 to 219 was the closest since 1916. The 1960 campaign for the presidency of the United States was shrouded...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 12, 2022 | Nutrition
Two studies in the current British Medical Journal give us more reasons to cut back on ultra-processed foods: • One study followed more than 200,000 U.S. men and women for up to 28 years and found that eating almost any type of ultra-processed food was associated with...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 12, 2022 | Other Diseases & Conditions
In the largest prospective study yet on the subject, researchers followed 1251 participants in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses’ Health Study who developed Parkinson’s Disease. (JAMA Netw Open, Aug 19, 2022;5(8):e2227738). The...
