The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.

By Dr. Mark Hyman

Health Medicine

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We are seeing an ever-increasing burden of chronic disease, primarily driven by our food and food system. This is perpetuated by agricultural, food and health care policies that don’t support health. We need to rethink disease and reimagine a food system and a health care system the protects health, unburdens the economy from the weight of obesity and chronic disease, protects the environment, helps reverse climate change and creates a nation of healthy children and citizens. This podcast is a place for deep conversations about the critical issues of our time in the space of health, wellness, food and politics. New episodes are released every Wednesday morning. I hope you'll join me.

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The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D. episodes:

08.21.2019 A Simple But Profound Solution to Food Waste with Kavita Shukla Sometimes the best ideas are the most simple. In an age where technology is ever-evolving and often responsible for the latest inventions, it can be easy to forget that even the most basic of ideas can add up to massive ...
08.16.2019 How the Food System Makes Food Choices For Us How much personal choice do we really have when it comes to our food choices? The science is clear—our processed, sugary, starchy diet is the single biggest cause of disease and death. And health outcomes are disproportionately worse in minority ...
08.14.2019 Is Meat As Bad As We Think: Breaking Down Nutrition Myths with Chris Kresser When it comes to looking at studies on nutrition, we need to ask the right questions. What type of study is it? Who funded it? What kinds of variables were and weren’t accounted for? And so much more. There is ...
08.09.2019 How Women Are Leading the Way to a Conscious Food System Globally women are leading the way when it comes to caring for biodiversity, water quality and quantity, soil health, and other aspects of consciously producing food for an ever-growing population. They are also producing 43% of the world’s food, despite ...
08.07.2019 Why Food Matters More Than You Think: From Plate to Planet with Mark Bittman Food impacts everything, which is why changing the way we eat and working towards a new food system can be so powerful and far-reaching. Cooking at home used to be the norm but it’s become the exception. Food marketing has ...
08.02.2019 Do Your Genes Determine Your Destiny? Epigenetics suggests that our behavior can influence which of our genes are turned on or off. This has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine. Predisposition is not pre-destiny and a familial history of disease does not render you ...
07.31.2019 Enhancing Your "Healthspan" to Live Well for 100+ Years with Dr. Peter Attia When it comes to aging well, we all have to set our own standards and goals. That might mean playing with your grandkids on the floor, carrying groceries up several flights of stairs, or being able to be present emotionally ...
07.26.2019 The Antidote to Loneliness and Social Isolation Lack of community and strong social connection can have a disastrous outcome on your health, which is why taking the time to strengthen existing relationships and build your personal community is an integral part of any wellness plan. In this ...
07.24.2019 Lucid Dreaming: How to Learn, Grow, and Heal While You Are Asleep with Charlie Morley I often talk about the importance of high-quality restful sleep and getting the right amount when it comes to creating great health. But what about the role of dreaming? You might be surprised to learn that the way we dream ...
07.19.2019 Why Wasn’t Gluten an Issue 50 Years Ago? A few decades ago, most people didn’t know anything about gluten. Today there is an unmistakable trend of people going gluten-free in the hopes of solving all of their gut woes. Why is this?In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman explores this ...
07.17.2019 Why Climate Change is Worse Than You Think with David Wallace-Wells Climate change is not moving as slowly as we’d like to think. In fact, half of all the damage done through burning fossil fuels has been just over the last 30 years. Unfortunately, every year is now more damaging than ...
07.12.2019 Sugar, Statins and Heart Health For so long we were told that having low LDL cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease, which led to doctors overprescribing statins to keep LDL low. Many people still believe that eating cholesterol and fat, especially saturated fat, ...
07.10.2019 How Chefs Can Be Doctors, and Doctors Can Be Chefs with David Bouley Many of us are in the middle of an identity crisis when it comes to what we eat. We’re pulled one way or another about macronutrients and labels, all the while missing the most important concept of all: food is ...
07.05.2019 How the Food Industry Targets Children Our children are being bombarded by powerful marketing messages from the food industry promoting unhealthy processed food-like substances. In fact, the food industry spends billions of dollars on marketing junk food to our kids every year. The average child in ...
07.03.2019 Are we eating too much (or not enough) protein for good health? with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon These days, we hear a lot about carbs versus fats. But what about protein? It’s become the forgotten macronutrient. The diet-wars have been tough on protein, as strict vegans and believers in Paleo strongly disagree on the best forms of ...
06.28.2019 Does Your Immune System Listen To Your Thoughts? Emerging research is giving us a more comprehensive picture than ever before about the way our mind can impact our health. While science continues to reveal the dramatic impacts of stress on the immune system, more and more clinical research ...
06.26.2019 How Do Psychedelics Help You Reach Enlightenment or At Least Happiness? with Michael Pollan As we see the amount of information and technology we have access to growing, we also gain a stronger view of universal human tendencies that are overarching in time and culture. One of those that is particularly fascinating is our ...
06.21.2019 The Ground-Breaking Study You Haven’t Heard About Ketogenic diets have gained significant popularity in the mainstream. However, ketogenic diets have actually been around in medicine for a long time. For example, they are used for treating intractable epilepsy when medications fail. Yes, that’s right, when meds fail ...
06.19.2019 Do You Dream Big Enough for Your Life? with Jon and Missy Butcher We don’t have any control over the cards we’re dealt, but we do have control over how we play them. Part of playing those cards right is believing we can have everything we want and figuring out exactly what it ...
06.14.2019 Why You Should Avoid Sweet Fat Many of us were taught that eating dietary fat makes us fat and leads to heart disease. This assumption has been catastrophic for our health. In fact, fats are essential for optimal health, and saturated fat, specifically, is not the ...
06.12.2019 How Do Stem Cells Heal? Stem cells are a major player in the future of medicine. They have the potential to become many other types of tissue—they are essentially like a smart-bomb that we can use to target a specific problem. But the magic doesn’t ...
06.07.2019 Reclaim Your Time By Changing Your Relationship to Technology We are living in a stressed-out, super-busy, hyper-caffeinated world, often pushing aside what matters most to us when things get hectic. And technology is everywhere—in our pockets, on desks, our nightstands, and even on our wrists. Yet, most of us ...
06.05.2019 How One Woman Is Transforming the Food System with Danielle Nierenberg What if we could lift 150 million people out of hunger? By empowering women farmers with education, money, and other resources we could increase crop yields by 20 to 30% and do just that. And if you’re wondering why I’m ...
05.31.2019 Foods That Fight Depression & Improve Sleep We know that a diet comprised of foods from our industrial diet—one high in processed sugar, starch, refined fat, and low in whole foods, fruits, and vegetables—can wreak havoc on your physical health. But what does that same diet do ...
05.29.2019 Why Big Food Should Be Afraid of You with Vishen Lakhiani We are all human first, after all, and connection can help us create the right systemic shifts. This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I was joined by visionary Vishen Lakhiani to talk about the role of education in creating transformation.Vishen ...
05.24.2019 How Our Food System Acts as an Invisible Form of Oppression We know all too well the visible forms of racism in our society. Less visible, however, is how our food system acts as the deadliest weapon used against the poor and minorities— keeping them poor, sick and fat, hijacking their ...
05.22.2019 Why Making Food Taste Better Makes it Healthier with Dan Barber I’m a big believer in the farm to table movement, but with one major caveat: you can’t skim the cream! What I’m saying is that we can’t cherry pick when it comes to our crops, growing the same ones over ...
05.17.2019 Finding Your Purpose Through Happiness, Intention and Surrender Our internal dialogue is intimately connected to our physical body, and our mitochondria are always eavesdropping on our thoughts. In fact, our mindset can be one of our strongest guiding forces. The overwhelming stresses in today’s world can create enormous ...
05.15.2019 Why Your Health Depends on the Soil with Dr. Daphne Miller In college, I read a book called The Soil and Health by Albert Howard. Little did I know, that book would forever change the way I viewed the relationship between dirt, food, bacteria, and human health.Emerging research continues to reveal ...
05.10.2019 The State of Science for Sex, Aging and Regenerative Medicine with Dr. George Shapiro The goal to age well and stay on top of my health led me to my guest on this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. George Shapiro. Dr. Shapiro has been a practicing physician for 30 years, specializing in internal ...
05.08.2019 The Science of Preventing (and Reversing) Dementia with Dr. Marwan Sabbagh For so long, we’ve been told that memory loss and dementia are just a normal part of aging. Though we now know it doesn’t have to be that way, and that there are many measures we can proactively take to ...
05.01.2019 Why We Need a President Who Cares About Food with Rep. Tim Ryan Our food system is completely broken. The foods that nourish us, elevate our health, and prevent chronic illness are more expensive for farmers to produce and for consumers to buy than those that have been proven to create disease. They’re ...
04.24.2019 Why We All Lie, How It Messes Up Our Lives and How To Fix It with Lauren Zander Years ago, I met a woman who changed my life. A mutual friend introduced us and we went to grab a cup of coffee; but I didn’t realize how life-changing that day would be. That woman was Lauren Zander, and ...
04.17.2019 Are Psychedelics the New Wonder Drug for Mental Illness and the Fear of Death? with Dr. Anthony Bossis When it comes to medicine, many of us want immediate results. What if just one dose of medicine could dramatically shift your perception, decreasing anxiety, depression, fear of death, addictive tendencies, and so much more? It might sound too good ...
04.10.2019 The Secret Power of Fasting for Longevity and Healing with Valter Longo These days, we hear a lot about fasting. Intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, and water fasting are just some of the many terms being thrown around in support of better health. And we can’t forget about the high-fat, ketogenic, and low-carb ...
04.03.2019 How to Prevent Alzheimer’s with Your Fork with Dr. David Perlmutter Every time we eat, we have a chance to boost our brain function. In medical school, we’re taught the brain is immutable, that we can’t grow new brain cells or change the brain once dysfunction or injury has occurred. Now, ...
03.27.2019 Why Being Sick and Overweight Is Not a Personal Choice with Dr. Sonia Angell Our food and healthcare systems are broken; they are not serving public health and are even putting certain communities at a disproportionate risk. We are up against social, economic, environmental, and political dysfunctions that contribute to chronic disease. Heart disease, ...
03.22.2019 Eggs? Why the Headlines Got it All Wrong A new study published in the medical journal JAMA says, ‘Eggs are bad,’ but are they really?In this episode, we take a look at the specifics of the study. This particular study is an observational study; it does not prove ...
03.20.2019 Why Food Is Better Than Medication To Treat Disease with Dr. William Li I never get tired of saying it: real food heals. Food has the power to prevent and reverse disease, and the more we know about it, the more power we have to curate a targeted diet to help us reach ...
03.13.2019 Growing a New Body Through Science and Shamanism with Alberto Villoldo Think about walking into a room full of people who are giving off good energy. They are smiling, kind, welcoming—you can feel what they are putting out into the world and want to be a part of it. Alternately, think ...
03.06.2019 From 31 Flavors of Ice Cream to a 31-Day Food Revolution with Ocean Robbins As my friend Ocean Robbins says, “When you eat the Standard American Diet you get the standard American diseases.” In fact, poor diet is responsible for almost 700,000 deaths in the US each year, and 11 million worldwide! And the ...
02.27.2019 The Secrets to Creating a Healthy Immune System with Dr. Leonard Calabrese The immune system: we hear about it all the time, especially this time of year as cold and flu season is in full swing. But there’s a lot more to it than just your susceptibility to a runny nose. 50 ...
02.20.2019 Why Meditation is the New Medicine with Emily Fletcher If there was something you could do everyday to boost your focus and productivity, feel energized, reduce stress, sleep better, maintain a positive outlook, and support whole-body health, wouldn’t you do it? It’s for all these reasons, and more, that ...
02.13.2019 From Funny Food Addict to Happy, Healthy Helper with Lisa Lampanelli It’s never too late to turn your life around. Doing deep emotional work can not only help us find better health and happiness, it can also help us discover our true purpose and understand how to fully share our gifts ...
02.06.2019 How Social Media May Be Ruining Your Life with Cal Newport Think about how often you check one of your many social media accounts. Chances are you spend a pretty good portion of your time, productivity, and brain power participating in these apps each day. Though it may seem harmless, or ...
01.30.2019 The Secrets To Disrupting Your Life On Your Own Terms with Miki Agrawal There are many health topics considered too taboo to talk about—menstruation being one of them. By ignoring this completely normal part of women’s health we miss out on the ability to empower young girls to become educated, strong women who ...
01.23.2019 Why the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Embraced Functional Medicine with Dr. Toby Cosgrove Obesity and type 2 diabetes create trillions of dollars in direct and indirect healthcare costs each year, due to their high prevalence and their ability to promote a wide range of other chronic diseases.These diseases are perpetuated by subsidies of ...
01.16.2019 Integrating Functional Medicine into Cleveland Clinic’s Inflammatory Bowel Program with Dr. Reguiero Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is estimated to impact more than 2 million Americans. This term encompasses different disorders relating to inflammation in the digestive tract, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. And up until now, traditional gastroenterology took ...
01.09.2019 Is One Minute of Meditation Enough? with Dan Harris How did a skeptical journalist find his way from depression and panic attacks to a more balanced, mindful life? Meditation.For a long time, meditation was sold in a way that made many people wary of its actual benefits. But now, ...
01.02.2019 How to Fix Your Gut Bacteria to Prevent Heart Attacks with Dr. Stanley Hazen There’s a lot more happening in your gut than you might think. Sure, our digestive system moves food through the body, extracting nutrients and eliminating waste. But there’s actually a significant portion of calories we ingest that don’t get absorbed ...

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