How to Improve Your Vitality & Heal From Disease | Dr. Mark Hyman

My guest is Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D., a physician and world leader in the field of functional medicine. We discuss a systems-based framework for diagnosing and treating the root causes of disease, rather than simply managing symptoms. We also cover cutting-edge health and longevity tools such as peptides, NAD/NMN, exosomes, proactive blood testing and cancer screening, as well as nutrition, supplementation, detoxification, and strategies for addressing specific diseases and health challenges. This discussion will benefit anyone seeking to improve their vitality or combat specific health concerns.

Articles

• Serum cholesterol response to changes in the diet (Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental)
  
• Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older Than 50 Years (JAMA Network Open)

Books

• Network Medicine: Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics
• Food: What the Heck Should I Cook?
• The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World
• Eat Fat Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
• Biochemical Individuality
• Nutrition Against Disease
• Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet–One Bite at a Time
• The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• The Gene: An Intimate History
• Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
• Silent Spring
• Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

Other Resources

• Center for Functional Medicine (Cleveland Clinic)
• Institute for Systems Biology
• Institute for Functional Medicine
• Stanford Metabolic Psychiatry
• Function Health
• History of the Dietary Guidelines
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Environmental Working Group
• Good Food on a Tight Budget (EWG)
• Make America Healthy Again
• Let’s Move Campaign
• American Heart Association opposed removing ultra-processed foods from SNAP eligibility
• True Cost of Food: Measuring What Matters to Transform the U.S. Food System (Rockefeller Foundation)
• How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food (The New York Times)
• What Nonprofits Can Learn from Coca-Cola (Melinda Gates TED Talk)
• Food Fix Campaign
• Seatopia
• Galleri Cancer Screening
• Prenuvo
• Phenome Health
• I Have a Family History of Alzheimer’s Disease. I Wanted to Understand My Own Risk (Sanjay Gupta, CNN)

Huberman Lab Episodes Mentioned

• Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
• Dr. Layne Norton: Tools for Nutrition & Fitness
• Dr. Zachary Knight: The Science of Hunger & Medications to Combat Obesity
• The Effects of Microplastics on Your Health & How to Reduce Them
• Dr. Shanna Swan: How to Safeguard Your Hormone Health & Fertility
• Benefits & Risks of Peptide Therapeutics for Physical & Mental Health

People Mentioned

• Gregory Bateson: British/American anthropologist, influential in systems thinking
• Jeffery Bland: Founder, Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute
• Linus Pauling: American chemist and biochemist, Nobel laureate
• Christopher Palmer: professor of psychiatry, Harvard University
• Leroy Hood: co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology
• Toby Cosgrove: former President & CEO, Cleveland Clinic
• Michael Pollan: journalist; professor of the practice non-fiction, Harvard University
• Alice Waters: chef, farm-to-table pioneer
• Rick Warren:  pastor, author
• Ronald Krauss: professor of pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
• Eddie Chang: neurosurgeon, University of California, San Francisco
• Richard Issacson: Director, Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, Florida Atlantic University
• Dale Bredesen: president & CEO, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
• Nick Norwitz: PhD in metabolism and nutrition from the University of Oxford, medical student at Harvard