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

By Dr. Mark Hyman

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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Corruption In The Food Indu...

01.27.2020

Imagine if there was a virus that killed 11 million people a year. There would be a global effort to eradicate it. Yet, this is what bad food is doing to us, and no one is sounding the alarm. In ...

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

01.27.2020 Corruption In The Food Industry And The Challenge With Our Dietary Guidelines Imagine if there was a virus that killed 11 million people a year. There would be a global effort to eradicate it. Yet, this is what bad food is doing to us, and no one is sounding the alarm. In ...
01.24.2020 Why Neuroscientists Love Running For decades we were taught there was no stopping cognitive and physical decline, now we know it’s possible to maintain a youthful brain and body into old age using accessible means. Given the right conditions, you can continue to thrive ...
01.22.2020 Is It Possible To Be Vegan-Keto? with Dr. Ethan Weiss and Dr. Carrie Diulus Despite what conventional medicine has told us, type 1 diabetes is not a sentence for a heavy reliance on insulin. For many people, a diet that carefully monitors carb intake can dramatically reduce blood sugar swings and reduce the amount ...
01.20.2020 Why Eating Fake Meat Won't Solve Our Climate Problem Wendell Berry said, "To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd." We need to revolutionize the food system completely. We have as system that fuels destruction, not only of our own health, but the health ...
01.17.2020 How To Feed Your Gut There are so many angles we need to look at with gut health and they can tell us an amazing amount of information about the rest of the body. Our gut bacteria regulate many of our bodily functions, from creating ...
01.15.2020 Why We Have The Worst Health Outcomes Of All Industrialized Nations with Dr. Charles Modlin, Dr. Leonor Osorio, and Tawny Jones Nobody wants to name the problem, but let’s call it what it is: social injustice is part of our healthcare system. Black and Hispanic people are far more likely to get sick and die from the 10 leading causes of ...
01.10.2020 How To Address The Lies We All Tell Ourselves Nourishing our spirit through addressing the inner challenges we all face—whether it’s discontent in a marriage or job or self-sabotaging beliefs about not being good enough—has a major impact on our overall well-being. When we address the lies we tell ...
01.08.2020 Why Healthcare Policy Needs To Focus On Prevention with Dr. Anand Parekh We have the best hospitals, most highly trained doctors, and people come from all over the world to get medical treatments in the US. Yet, we’re lagging behind almost every other country in health metrics, including life expectancy and infant ...
01.03.2020 How Metal Toxicity Affects Health And Aging Unfortunately, in today’s world we’ve become exposed to a greater number of environmental toxins than ever before. Heavy metals including mercury, lead, and arsenic pose many threats to our health, from increased risk of cancer to autoimmune disorders, hormonal imbalances, ...
12.31.2019 Is There An Antidote To Stress? with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee We’re up against a chronic epidemic: stress. In fact, it’s estimated that 80% or more of doctors’ visits are due to illnesses related to stress. This can come in many different forms. Socioeconomic stress is a real burden for many ...
12.27.2019 How Much Is Your Food Waste Costing You? Food waste is one of the largest problems of our time. In fact, about 30% of all food produced globally (1.3 billion tons) is wasted—and it’s costing us. Food waste is also a major contributor to climate change; if food ...
12.24.2019 How To Fix Nutrition In Schools with Kimbal Musk As we see a rise in the hyperlocal movement, urban farming, school gardening programs, and farm to table restaurants it’s clear there are some really exciting solutions in the works for a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable food system. We just ...
12.20.2019 Understanding Nutrition Research We’re always hearing extreme results from nutritional research. Ranging from the “dangers” of coconut oil and eggs to completely contradictory statements, like that a low-carb diet shortens lifespan and also increases it, we are bombarded with confusing information that can ...
12.18.2019 The Power Of Food To Heal Everything From Autoimmune Disease To Traumatic Brain Injury with Dr. George Papanicolaou One of the reasons Functional Medicine is so transformative is that it recognizes disease does not occur in isolation. If one part of the body is compromised the entire body is thrown out of balance. SIBO, or small intestine bacterial ...
12.13.2019 How Meditation Activates Our Healing Mechanisms We have all heard that meditation can provide stress relief, but the benefits do not stop there. Meditation also provides immune support, can lead to better sleep, and even better sex; it also provides the immune system a rest five ...
12.11.2019 Why Food Is A Social Justice Issue with Leah Penniman There’s a part of our food system that’s not being talked about: racial inequality. The division of land, government subsidies, and financial resources that are available favor white farmers. Meanwhile, many of our sustainable farming practices actually stem from African ...
12.06.2019 How To Fast Without Feeling Hungry Food has an amazing ability to heal, but the timing of when we eat or abstain from eating can also have really amazing impacts on our health. Autoimmunity, gut issues, Alzheimer’s, and aging have all been found to benefit from ...
12.04.2019 Why Your Mindset Matters If You Want Health And Wealth with Tom Bilyeu Ever notice how a growth mindset leads to opportunity and success and how a poverty mindset leaves you with nothing but want, and often spirals downwards into an ongoing funk? We have to use our physical state to change our ...
11.29.2019 How To Avoid Falling Prey To Food Marketing Creating optimal health and a life you love is about setting the right foundation and putting in the right inputs to get the right results. And the first step is your vision. What do you want your present and future ...
11.27.2019 Why Fixing The Gut Is The Key To Healing Chronic Disease with Dr. Todd LePine The impact the gut has on the entire body should not be underestimated, but unfortunately in conventional medicine it often is. We are shuttling pounds and pounds of food into this tube we have called the digestive system several times ...
11.22.2019 How Psychedelics And Meditation Affect The Brain Currently, psychedelics are getting renewed interest from the medical community. From anxiety and depression to addiction and even overcoming fear of death, research is showing psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has a lot to offer. And science is showing us that the same ...
11.20.2019 Is Food A Laughing Matter? with Mia Lux Eating unhealthy food and trying to improve your health is like mopping up the floor while the sink is still overflowing—it just doesn’t work! But it can be hard to decide what we really should be eating for optimal health, ...
11.15.2019 What To Do Today To Be Healthy At 100 With deliberate attention, we can create the physical, mental, and emotional health we desire at any age. The first step is identifying where we want to be at “X” age. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. Peter Attia ...
11.13.2019 The Love Diet: Healing Through Community with James Maskell and Tawny Jones Success comes from support. We are actually more strongly impacted by our peers and social networks than by our genetics—this is huge when it comes to changing our health. That’s why I’m such an advocate for community-based healthcare. Putting people ...
11.08.2019 Why You Should Avoid Vegetable Oils Many of us grew up believing that vegetable oils were good and butter was bad. We were told, even by government and medical associations, to use more vegetable, seed and bean oils (like soybean, corn, safflower, canola). Now we know ...
11.06.2019 How to End Mental Illness with Dr. Daniel Amen There’s a certain stigma around mental illness, one that can, unfortunately, keep people from feeling empowered that they can change their brain health and get the care they truly need. But think about it—would we ever shame someone with cancer, ...
11.01.2019 Why Millennials Are Shaping Our Future There is an exciting shift happening in the relationship between consumers and companies—consumers are driving industry change through a higher level of awareness when it comes to where they spend their money. A new generation of consumers, entrepreneurs, and business ...
10.30.2019 How to Find the Real Cause of Your Disease and How to Fix It with Dr. Elizabeth Boham So many Functional Medicine practitioners like myself have gone through their own healing crisis. For me, it was a total brain and body breakdown 30 years ago due to mercury poisoning from when I lived in China. For my good ...
10.25.2019 How Hedonism Can Change Our Food System You might be surprised to learn that there is a major monopoly when it comes to seeds. Globally, 68% of seeds are in the hands of just three companies. This has major implications for our food system at every level. ...
10.23.2019 Is Self-Love Medicine? with Dr. Andrea Pennington It might sound too good to be true, but there are tools waiting within all of us, that can improve everything from depression to addiction, anxiety, discontent, or numerous other unbeneficial feelings or states of dis-ease. We just have to ...
10.18.2019 The Key to Behavior Change Having a coach or community to support your health journey can be instrumental in creating and sustaining lifestyle and behavioral change. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman talks with Functional Medicine practitioner, Chris Kresser, about the challenges involved in altering behaviors ...
10.16.2019 What Is Hyper-Local Food? with Tobias Peggs Imagine getting the freshest basil, lettuce, and tomatoes for your favorite salad, right in your own neighborhood, no matter where you live or what time of year it is. With urban farming, this is the future we can all look ...
10.11.2019 How Your Health Is Connected to Soil Health You may be surprised to learn that we see genetic crosstalk between the bacteria we harbor in our bodies and the bacteria or microbes within our soil. In fact, food acts as a language helping the two communicate. In this ...
10.09.2019 Can You Age Backwards? with Dave Asprey Getting older is inevitable, but aging is not. What society thinks of as aging—wrinkly skin, poor memory, weight gain, aches and pains—is actually abnormal aging, and it doesn’t have to be this way. There are reasons for these symptoms, and ...
10.04.2019 What the World's Longest-Lived People Eat We all want to know what it takes to live a long, healthy, and happy life. In this mini-episode of the podcast, Dr. Hyman speaks with longevity expert and bestselling author of, “Blue Zones,” Dan Buettner, about the commonalities amongst ...
10.02.2019 How a Doctor Cured Her Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine with Dr. Cynthia Li Think about how different our medical system would be if all doctors were required to have an extreme health crisis before practicing medicine. It’s through those toughest times with our own health that many of us turn to Functional Medicine, ...
09.27.2019 How Diet Influences Everything From Gut Health to Decision Making The health of our digestive system greatly impacts the health of our whole body. This is because our gut is designed to help us digest food, absorb nutrients, keep invaders out, and even produce helpful compounds like the neurotransmitter serotonin, ...
09.25.2019 Can Eating Regenerative Meat Help Reverse Climate Change? with Tom Newmark Soil is the most important answer to climate change, and also one of the most underappreciated. Without soil, we have no food, and I don’t think I need to elaborate on how catastrophic that would be. The positive news is ...
09.20.2019 Is convenience depleting your health and your bank account? As a society, we have been brainwashed into thinking that cooking real food costs too much, is too hard, and takes too long. Fast food manufacturers and grocers lure us into convenient, heavily processed meals that take a toll on ...
09.18.2019 Is It Possible to Truly Heal From Trauma? with Dr. Jim Gordon Trauma comes in many forms, and it’s something we’re all going to face at one point or another. Though it might seem in the moment that we should push away negative feelings and pretend everything is fine, true healing can’t ...
09.13.2019 Can Food Reactivate Your Stem Cells? Among the major superpowers of our stem cells is their ability to self renew. Stem cells can also sense damaged cells and tissues and send signals that promote self-healing. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. William Li about ...
09.11.2019 Death is Inevitable but Aging is Not with Dr. David Sinclair Age is not the definitive factor it’s made out to be when it comes to our health. We can use our age as a baseline for tracking our health and longevity, but it isn’t stagnant. For example, certain types of ...
09.06.2019 Why You Should Feel Optimistic About the Future While we are in an incredibly exciting time when it comes to preventing and reversing disease, issues such as misleading scientific research, imperfect policy, corporate financial interests, and other biases often act as roadblocks to enhancing the health of our ...
09.04.2019 Have We Discovered the Cause of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS? with Dr. Jay Lombard The gut and brain are strongly interconnected. That’s why in Functional Medicine we always take the gut into account, along with the rest of the body, when trying to understand a brain disease. Unfortunately, conventional medicine likes to look at ...
08.30.2019 Awakening to Our Authentic Selves and Families Wellness is more than just eating right and exercising; feeling well means feeling whole, balanced, vibrant, and alive. And there are many moving pieces that we can tap into to feel empowered in our own wellness journey. In this miniepisode, ...
08.28.2019 Meditation, Kindness, and Compassion: The Secret To Your Life and Financial Abundance with Daniel Goleman You may have heard about emotional intelligence, but have you really ever paused to think about where you fall on the spectrum, and how it’s influencing your relationships and place in the world? It actually impacts everything, from our family ...
08.23.2019 What Science Got Wrong About Weight Gain We’ve all heard the fiendishly simple and completely untrue colloquialism about how to lose weight: Just eat less and exercise more. The idea that all calories are created equal has been one of the most pervasive and damaging food lies ...
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 ...

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