by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 25, 2022 | Diabetes
Sleeping with the lights on or a television set on for just one night raises blood sugar, heart rate and insulin resistance, all risk factors for diabetes (PNAS, March 14, 2022;119(12):e2113290119). Five to ten percent of the light can actually get through a closed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 21, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Scott Hall was a “bad-guy” wrestling superstar who was inducted twice into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, previously WWF) Hall of Fame: • in 2014 as Razor Ramon, known for wearing gold chains and flicking a toothpick at opponents • in 2020 as a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Muhammed Ali was honored by presidents and kings as the most famous athlete in the world. He was an Olympic gold medalist and three-time heavyweight world champion. His ancestors were slaves in the pre-Civil War South with some Irish and English in their heritage. His...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness
• A study of 1535 cancer survivors over 40 years old, followed for 4.5 years, found that those who did not exercise and those who sat for more than eight hour per day were at the highest risk for death from cancer (JAMA Oncol, published online January 6, 2022). • A...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 7, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Together with his wife, Virginia Man-Yee Lee, researcher John Trojanowski wrote more than 500 scientific papers that made him one of the world’s leading authorities on abnormally-folded proteins that damage the brain: • tau proteins in Alzheimer disease •...
