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Reflections On Living An Authentic Life | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, ButcherBox, and Four Sigmatic

I was lucky enough to learn at a young age that we can write our own stories. We can become the authors of our own lives instead of the victims—living authentically is a cornerstone of that process. Throughout life we’re posed with obstacles, successes, and everything in between. My guest on today’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, the one and only Matthew McConaughey, shares how challenging events (redlights) can provide us with the opportunity for growth and success (greenlights), which is the focus of his new book Greenlights.

Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey is a husband, father of three children, and a loyal son and brother. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation, believes it’s okay to have a beer on the way to the temple, feels better with a day’s sweat on him, and is an aspiring orchestral conductor. In 2009, Matthew and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which helps at-risk high school students make healthier mind, body, and spirit choices. In 2019, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Minister of Culture/M.O.C. for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. McConaughey is also brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company, an owner of the Major League Soccer Club Austin FC, and co-creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet, Wild Turkey Longbranch.

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Here are more of the details from our interview: 

• What Matthew found when he looked back on the journals he kept over 30 years (8:12)

• The science of satisfaction (11:25)

• Being an author vs. victim of your life (14:16)

• Reframing selfishness (16:28)

• Matthew’s recurring dream and what he did to follow it (23:16)

• The transformative wrestling match that Matthew inadvertently found himself participating in (29:36)

• Prioritizing what matters most to you (42:08)

• How relinquishing need can bring in more (48:09)

• The power of journaling and writing down your thoughts (49:10)

Get a copy of Matthew’s book, Greenlights at https://greenlights.com/.

Follow Matthew on Facebook @MatthewMcConaughey, on Instagram @officiallymcconaughey, and on Twitter @McConaughey.

Heavy Metals And Health: The Untold Story | This episode is sponsored by Joovv and AquaTru

We live in an environment steeped in chemicals that our bodies were not designed to process. When it comes to toxins one plus one does not equal two. There is a compounded effect. Chronic toxicity can wreak havoc on our health and result in symptoms ranging from fatigue to sleep and skin issues. It can also be related to autoimmune issues, diabetes, hypertension, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, autism, and many other conditions. Unfortunately, conventional medicine rarely examines the role of toxic load when it comes to treating these conditions. 

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to assessing a patient's toxic load and supporting the body to detoxify and reduce high levels of heavy metals. They also share their personal experiences treating patients in this area.

Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.

This episode is sponsored by Joovv and AquaTru.

Right now, Joovv is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners an exclusive discount on Joovv’s Generation 3.0 devices. Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY. Some exclusions do apply. 

This episode is sponsored by AquaTru. We need clean water not only to live but to create vibrant health and protect ourselves and loved ones from toxin exposure and disease. Learn more about the AquaTru water filter at a special price at www.drhyman.com/filter.

In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:

• How heavy metals affect the immune system, gut health, chronic disease, and more

• Concerns over metal dental fillings

• Testing heavy metal levels 

• Lead exposure in our environment

• Optimizing your detoxification system with food

• Patients cases they have treated

• Heavy metal chelator treatment

Additional Resources:

How To Optimize Your Body’s Detoxification System with Maggie Ward

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/10/26/podcast-hc28/

How Lead And Other Environmental Toxins Are Affecting Us

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/12/04/podcast-minisode65/

How Environmental Toxins in Our Water, Air, and Products Wreak Havoc on Our Immune System with Dr. Aly Cohen

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/05/18/bb-ep112/

Fat has been unfairly vilified for decades. The truth is that the right fats can make you healthy and lean, and can fuel your brain, while the wrong fats can be deadly. Unlike sugar, which is pretty much all bad, fats are complicated. Some people thrive on a high-fat diet, while others gain weight and struggle with abnormal cholesterol. However, even though fats are complicated, eating a fat-free diet is not good for your health. We need fats to survive. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses why we should be eating fats with every meal, the seventh principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com

The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy to follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get Dr. Hyman’s discount bundle which includes discounts to all of his favorite brands when you pre-order The Pegan Diet today. 

The History Of Our Food System: What’s Wrong And How To Fix It | This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Thrive Market, and Athletic Greens

What do wealth inequality, chronic disease, climate change, and the industrialization of agriculture all have in common? The answer is food, and more specifically our food system. Very few people are able to connect the dots between some of the world’s most pressing issues in a way that lets us see the big picture. My guest on today’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Mark Bittman, is someone who does exactly that in an effort to achieve a different future for food. 

Mark Bittman is the author of thirty acclaimed books, including How to Cook Everything and the #1 New York Times bestseller, VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health... for Good. He was a New York Times columnist for more than two decades and has hosted four TV series, including the Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University and is the editor in chief of the blog The Bittman Project, and his most recent book is Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal.

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Here are more of the details from our interview:

• Answering the question, what would a good food system look like? (9:29)

• Looking back at the development and resulting consequences of our agricultural system (11:17)

• Tracing today’s wealth inequality, food industrialization, and monocrop culture back to the agricultural pursuits of the nineteenth century (18:27)

• Making measurable, incremental change to improve our modern food system (29:43)

• What individuals can do to improve our food system (32:26)

• The cost of failing to name that we are in a national food crisis (33:34)

• Is Big Food rethinking its role in our food system? (38:29)

• Incentivizing regenerative agriculture, nationally and internationally (40:46)

• Improving national food policy (48:08)

• The link between agriculture and climate change, and the role of animal production in climate change (50:30)

Learn more about Mark Bittman at https://www.markbittman.com/ and get his new book, Animal Vegetable Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal at https://www.markbittman.com/book-covers-descriptions/yd23vsv00b8bbc0c5rupl6fzq5ofka.

Access Mark Bittman’s newsletter The Bittman Project at https://www.bittmanproject.com/.

Follow Mark on Facebook @markbittman, on Instagram @markbittman, and on Twitter @bittman.

Articles referenced:

Long-latency deficiency disease: insights from calcium and vitamin D https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14594776/

Paradigm Shift: The End of “Normal Science” in Medicine

https://drhyman.com/blog/2010/12/21/paradigm-shift-the-end-of-normal-science-in-medicine/

Ask Mark Q&A #8: Vitamins, Acid Reflux, Intermittent Fasting, And More | This episode is sponsored by Thrive Market

In this Q&A series, Dr. Mark Hyman takes live questions from his community. For a chance to speak with Dr. Hyman during a future Ask Mark Q&A, text your question to 413-225-8995 using the hashtag #askmark

Topics covered in this episode include:

• Should you take vitamins, and if so, what kinds?

• Sugar substitutes

• Considerations for eating canned foods

• Treating acid reflux

• Omega-3’s and fish oil supplementation

• Helping a friend improve their health

• Intermittent fasting

• “Kids food”

• Treating osteoporosis 

• Supporting gut health during and after antibiotic use

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Mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Hyman Store

Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

Getting To The Root Of And Getting Rid Of Heartburn And Reflux with Dr. Todd LePine

7 Steps to Reverse Acid Reflux

10 Day Reset

Why Most Everything We Were Told About Dairy Is Wrong

The Pegan Diet

Addressing The Root Causes Of Childhood Obesity | This episode is sponsored by Beekeepers Naturals and BLUblox

Our children are unfortunately being born into a toxic food environment. Currently, a third of American kids are overweight or obese and in addition to rising rates of childhood obesity, we are also seeing a significant increase in type 2 diabetes in children. Overweight children not only face unfair stigma and judgment, but they are also more prone to battling weight issues in adulthood. Yet, food manufacturers continue to produce and peddle junk to our children that we loosely call food. The good news is that you have control over what foods you bring into your home and the type of modeling you provide for your children when it comes to what to eat.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to combating childhood obesity and they share patient cases they have treated related to childhood obesity. 

Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.

This episode is sponsored by Beekeepers Naturals and BLUblox.

Beekeepers Naturals is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 15% off your first order. ​Go to beekeepersnaturals.com/hyman or use code HYMAN ​at checkout to claim this deal. 

Right now BLUblox is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 20% off. Just go to blublox.com/hyman and use code HYMAN20. BLUblox also offers free and fast shipping globally.

In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:

• Optimal birth weight

• Should we feed children “kids food”?

• Why prevention is so important when it comes to childhood obesity

• Food marketing aimed at children

• BMI measurements for childhood obesity

• The danger of sugar-sweetened beverages, including juices, sports drinks, and soda

• The benefits of breastfeeding

• The recommended amount of screen time per age bracket

• The link between sleep and weight gain

• Making your home a safe zone for your children

Additional Resources

5 Ways To Raise Healthy Eaters

https://drhyman.com/blog/2016/08/18/5-ways-to-raise-healthy-eaters/

Raising Healthy Eaters - Part I

https://drhyman.com/blog/2012/11/20/raising-healthy-eaters-part-i/

Fed Up movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceRFvhlcsiY

How Food Marketing Is Making Us Sick and Fat

https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/10/30/podcast-ep25/

How To Improve School Lunches, Grades, And Behavior At No Extra Cost

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/27/podcast-ep107/

Food Fix

foodfixbook.com

The truth about meat is more nuanced than whether it is good or bad. While factory-farmed red meat is an environmental and climate catastrophe, is inhumane, and may have adverse health consequences, this is not true of meat from regeneratively raised animals. The real question we should be asking is, is meat healthy or harmful? In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses how to eat meat as medicine, the fifth principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com

The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy to follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get Dr. Hyman’s discount bundle which includes discounts to all of his favorite brands when you pre-order The Pegan Diet today. 

Returning To Ancient Remedies To Promote Health | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, ButcherBox, and Athletic Greens

Modern medicine has come a long way, there’s no doubt about it. But our ancient ancestors had an in-depth understanding of how to use food and plants as medicine and this wisdom still holds true today. Our conventional medical system heavily relies on prescription medication to silence, or “manage,” symptoms. I call this the “pill-for-ever-ill” model of medicine. This often turns into a lifelong dependence without ever getting to the root of the problem. If we instead look at where the imbalance is stemming from and use a variety of tools to treat it—like food, stress reduction, herbs, etc.—we can see profound improvements and, many times, a reversal of disease. 

I was so happy to connect with Dr. Josh Axe to talk more about how ancient remedies can help us create the vibrant health we deserve and avoid lifelong health struggles. Dr. Axe is a certified doctor of natural medicine, a doctor of chiropractic, and a clinical nutritionist with a passion to help people get healthy by empowering them to use nutrition to fuel their health. He is the bestselling author of Keto Diet, Eat Dirt, and Collagen Diet and author of the book Ancient Remedies. He is also the co-founder of Ancient Nutrition, which provides protein powders, holistic supplements, vitamins, essential oils and more to the modern world. Dr. Axe founded the natural health website DrAxe.com, one of the top natural health websites in the world today.

This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, ButcherBox, and Athletic Greens.

Paleovalley is offering 15% off your entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.

When you sign up for ButcherBox today, you can get 2 lbs of wild-caught Alaskan salmon free in your first box. Just go to butcherbox.com/farmacy. 

Athletic Greens is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners a full year supply of their Vitamin D3/K2 Liquid Formula free with your first purchase, plus 5 free travel packs. Just go to athleticgreens.com/hyman to take advantage of this great offer.

Here are more of the details from our interview:

• The health crisis in Dr. Axe’s family that led to his interest in ancient remedies (6:32)

• Our modern healthcare system’s overreliance on pharmaceuticals (11:30)

• Getting to the root cause of hypothyroidism (14:23)

• How many pharmaceutical drugs result in nutrient depletion (16:21)

• Antibiotics in our food (18:08)

• Ancient practices of using food as medicine (26:06)

• Personalized medicine, using spices and herbs to optimize health, and how emotions drive disease (32:39)

• Supporting our immune system to make ourselves more resilient to COVID-19, in addition to other illness and disease (35:53)

• The benefits of the CBD compound (41:41)

• Ancient remedies for PCOS, cancer, and hypothyroidism (44:50)

Learn more about Dr. Josh Axe at https://draxe.com/ and get his book, Ancient Remedies: Secrets to Healing with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History Hardcover at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316496456.

Follow Dr. Axe on Facebook @DrJoshAxe and on Instagram @drjoshaxe.

Is Histamine Intolerance The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms? | This episode is sponsored by Athletic Greens and Dr. Hyman's Sleep Master Class.

Most people are familiar with certain histamine conditions, such as the development of a welt from a bee sting or hives from a peanut allergy. However, symptoms ranging from brain fog to digestive problems, menstrual cycle problems, nausea, vomiting, edema, palpitations, and anxiety can all also result from issues of histamine intolerance. Unfortunately, this issue commonly goes undiagnosed, often resulting in years of ongoing frustration and suffering among individuals struggling to find the cause of their mysterious symptoms.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Todd LePine to talk about how they work with patients to get to the root cause of histamine intolerance. They discuss the rising prevalence of mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), how gut health influences histamine, and much more.

Dr. LePine graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, specializing in Integrative Functional Medicine. He is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center, he worked as a physician at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, for 10 years. Dr. LePine’s focus at The UltraWellness Center is to help his patients achieve optimal health and vitality by restoring the natural balance to both the mind and the body. His areas of interest include optimal aging, bio-detoxification, functional gastrointestinal health, systemic inflammation, autoimmune disorders and the neurobiology of mood and cognitive disorders. Dr. LePine teaches around the world, and has given lectures to doctors and patients at American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG), the University of Miami Integrative Medicine Conference, The Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA, and is on the faculty for American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). Dr. LePine is the head of the Scientific Advisory Board for Designs for Health and a consultant for Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory. He enjoys skiing, kayaking, hiking, camping and golfing in the beautiful Berkshires, and is a fitness enthusiast.

This episode is sponsored by Athletic Greens and Dr. Hyman’s Sleep Master Class.

Athletic Greens is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners a full year supply of their Vitamin D3/K2 Liquid Formula free with your first purchase, plus 5 free travel packs. Just go to athleticgreens.com/hyman to take advantage of this great offer.

In this modern world we place too much value on staying busy and deprioritizing sleep, which is why Dr. Hyman created his first ever Master Class. It guides you through the most important steps to getting better sleep, starting today. Get free access to Dr. Hyman’s Sleep Master Class at drhyman.com/sleep. 

In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Dr. LePine discuss:

• Symptoms of histamine intolerance

• The rising prevalence of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), and the effect of EMFs on mast cells

• Histamine producing foods, and the connection between histamine intolerance and leaky gut 

• Testing and diagnosis of histamine intolerance

• Pharmaceutical drugs that drive histamine intolerance

• Nutrients that support histamine balance

• Patient cases

Additional Resources:

The Functional Medicine Approach To Ending Migraines 

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/12/11/podcast-hc34/

What Is Leaky Gut And How Can You Treat It?

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/03/20/podcast-hc2/

A Simple Diet Experiment That May Solve Most Of Your Health Issues

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/08/22/podcast-hc24/

How To Recover From Chronic Lyme And Tick Disease

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/05/21/podcast-hc11/

Many of us don’t understand the link between what we eat and how we feel, or between food and the myriad ailments to which humans are prone. Foods are made not of ingredients but of complex compounds, all dynamically influencing your biology. Think about the implications of every single bite of food you eat. You are literally programming your biological software for better or worse. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses the power of using food as your farmacy, the first principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com

The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy to follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get Dr. Hyman’s discount bundle which includes discounts to all of his favorite brands when you pre-order The Pegan Diet today.