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  1. Gabe Mirkin. Gabe Baron Mirkin (born June 18, 1935) is a physician, author, professor, columnist, former guest lecturer, and a former marathon runner. He hosted a radio show on health and fitness for more than 20 years and wrote several books on sports medicine, nutrition, and health. [1]

  2. Sep 15, 2024 · The Dr. Gabe Mirkin Show. I do a monthly call-in radio show on WRTA in Altoona, Pennsylvania; you can listen to a recent show here. There are many more of these shows in the station’s online archive; just enter “Dr. Gabe Mirkin” in the search box at the top of the page. The shows are generally scheduled on the second Monday of each month ...

  3. 3 days ago · About Dr Mirkin. Sports medicine doctor, fitness guru and long-time radio host Gabe Mirkin, M.D. brings you news and tips for your healthful lifestyle. A practicing physician for more than 50 years and a radio talk show host for 25 years, Dr. Mirkin is a graduate of Harvard University and Baylor University College of Medicine.

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    Early Life

    Mirkin was born on June 18, 1935, in Brookline, Massachusetts to Mitchell and Vera (Baron) Mirkin. His parents were born in Russia and immigrated to the United States, where his father collected insurance policy premiums for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother taught piano lessons. He was brought up in Roxbury, a suburb in Boston.

    Education

    He was graduated from Boston Latin School in 1953, Harvard College in 1957, and Baylor Medical School in 1961.

    Personal Life

    1. In 1961, Dr. Mirkin married Irene Mannheimer and had four children with her: Gene, Jan, Jill, and Geoff. 2. In 1983, he married Mona Shangold, M.D. and they had a son, Kenneth. 3. He married Diana Purdie Rich in 1997. 1. In 2008, he retired from his medical practice in Maryland and moved to The Villages, Florida. He and his wife, Diana, ride daily with a large group of tandem bicyclists, maintain a website, produce a weekly newsletter, and write a column on health and fitness for the Villa...

    Medical Career

    Dr. Mirkin opened a private practice in Sports Medicine, Allergy and Immunology in Silver Spring, MD from 1966-1968. He served in the United States Army at Fort Belvoir from 1969-1970 and then resumed his medical practice in Silver Spring and Kensington, MD from 1970 until his retirement in 2008.

    Teaching Appointments

    He took a residency in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1961-1963 and a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD from 1963-1965. During his training, he served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvardand Johns Hopkins Medical Schools. He was Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland (1972-77) and Associate Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine (1982-2008). He has been a featured speaker at...

    Long-Distance Running

    During his fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Mirkin started to train for long-distance races and ran twice a day. He then chose to settle in Washington, DC because, at that time, it was the only city in the U.S. with competitive long-distance races 52 weeks a year. He continued to race competitively into his late thirties. While at Johns Hopkins, he founded the Run-for-Your-Life Program in 1962, a two-mile fun run for novice runners that was added to regular Road Runners Club of Ameri...

    Dangers of the Beverly Hills Diet

    The Beverly Hills Diet is a fad diet that was developed by author Judy Mazel in one of her books. This diet argues that proteins and carbohydrates should never be eaten or combined on the same day. It begins with the consumption of a series of prescribed fruits in a specific order for the first ten days of the program. On the succeeding days from days 11 to 18, the dieter can choose to add bread, two tablespoons of butter, and three cobs of corn. The dieter will not be allowed to consume comp...

    RICE

    ­This is an acronym for rest, ice, compression, and elevation. The mnemonic, introduced by Dr. Gabe Mirkin in The Sports Medicine Book 1978, serves as a guideline for treating soft tissue injuries. However, he has since recanted his supportfor the regimen and wrote on March 16, 2014 that “Coaches have used my 'RICE' guideline for decades, but now it appears that both Ice and complete Rest may delay healing, instead of helping. In a recent study, athletes were told to exercise so intensely tha...

    Goldman's Dilemma

    Also known as the Goldman dilemma, this is a question posed to elite athletes by Robert Goldman (physician, osteopath, and publicist). The question asks whether elite athletes would willingly take a drug that would promise immense in sport but would cause them to die after only five years. During the 1970s, Dr. Mirkin conducted his own research and reported that more than half of the top runners he interviewed would accept the proposal. He asked the runners: "If I could give you a pill that w...

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  4. A practicing physician for more than 50 years and a radio talk show host for 25 years, Dr. Mirkin is a graduate of Harvard University and Baylor University College of Medicine. Dr. Mirkin hosted a popular call-in radio show on fitness and health that was syndicated in more than 120 cities. He has written 16 books including The Sportsmedicine ...

  5. Apr 29, 2023 · As of July 28, 2022: First Conventional COVID-19 Vaccine Is Approved for Ages 18-Up: The U.S. Food and Drug administration and CDC have authorized the Novavax vaccine as the first conventional COVID-19 vaccine (New York Times, July 20, 2022). The U.S. government has purchased 3.2 million doses of the vaccine so far.

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  7. Nov 27, 2023 · Gabe Baron Mirkin (born 18 June 1935) is a physician, author, professor, columnist, former guest lecturer, and a former marathon runner who hosted a radio show on health and fitness for more than 20 years and wrote several books on sports medicine, nutrition, and health.Mirkin is commonly known for his recommendations on standard medicine as well as his non-standard recommendations on health ...

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