DR. MIRKIN ON SALT: TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE Salt for Warm Weather Exercise Two major reports in medical journals claim that getting people to reduce their intake of salt will save lives, prevent heart attacks and markedly reduce health costs (Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2010; NEJM, April 22, 2010). That may be true [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ten-year-olds spend more time sitting on their rears and less time running around than they did at age nine, according to a new British study. T.V. AND VIDEO GAMES ON WEEK-ENDS Kids mostly cut down on their physical activity during weekends, by an average of 40 minutes about 75 minutes [...]
HOW EXERCISE PREVENTS DISEASE AND PROLONGS LIFE BY DR. MIRKIN How does exercise prolong life? The leading theory is that exercise prolongs life and prevents heart attacks and cancers by causing the body to dispose of free radicals with increased production of antioxidants. Exercise speeds up the reactions that turn food into energy, so exercise [...]
Recent studies show that people with certain variants of the “fat mass and obesity associated” gene, or FTO gene, are more likely to become overweight. The FTO genes acts in your hypothalamus, the part of your brain that regulates appetite and satiety, and certain variants have been linked to increased energy intake, especially in the [...]
Moderate Exercise for 15 Minutes Daily Improves Survival By Laurie Barclay, MD, from Medscape The minimal amount of physical activity to reduce mortality risk is 15 minutes a day of moderate-intensity exercise, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported online August 16 in The Lancet. “Exercising at very light levels reduced deaths [...]
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN RESEARCHED THOROUGHLY. STUDIES EXAMINED REFER TO TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND EVEN TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN JAPAN AND OTHER COUNTRIES. THE STUDIES COVER DECADES OF LIVING. I EXCLUDED ALL MINOR STUDIES WHICH COVERED LESS THAN 10,000 PEOPLE AND LESS THAN 10 YEARS. I AM OF THE OPINION THAT [...]
Original article written by Dr. Mercola Researchers have discovered that exercise affects the behavior of your muscle stem cells. This finding could lead to new rehabilitation techniques for muscle injuries, and may help prevent or even restore age-related muscle loss. It has long been known that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in skeletal muscle are an [...]
Fasting Two Days a Week May Benefit Your Brain By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. February 26, 2012 See Dr. Pinna’s comments below… Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have collected evidence that reducing food intake to under 500 calories per day for two days a week may help to prevent brain [...]
