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Each of us is made up of an estimated 30 trillion cells, all of which work together in harmony to perform all of the functions necessary for us to survive from day to day and year to year. But sometimes cells go rogue and don’t conform to the normal cell life cycle. When that happens, we end up with cells in our body that start to cause damage. These rogue cells, called senescent or “zombie” cells, release inflammatory chemicals that contribute to all manner of health issues—osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, to name just a few.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking all about zombie cells—what they are, how they develop, and how we can get rid of them.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What are zombie cells and how do they develop? (4:00 / 1:14) 
• The negative effects of zombie cells (4:53 / 2:39) 
• How to get rid of zombie cells (7:06 / 4:08) 
• Causes of zombie cells (8:19 / 5:08) 
• Natural and pharmaceutical compounds that kill zombie cells (11:17 / 8:00) 
• Lifestyle practices that reduce and kill zombie cells (15:24 /12:20)

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If we want to age as well as possible, maintain function and strength, and stay independent as we age, there is a key area of our physiology that we need to pay attention to: muscle.

Skeletal muscle is the currency of aging; it’s an essential lever in maintaining optimal metabolic health, reducing body fat, and supporting longevity. And a major piece of building and maintaining muscle is protein consumption—which is often a controversial topic in the nutrition space. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon about the science of muscle mass, protein sources, and healthy aging and how we can all pay attention to these things in our daily lives. 

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a Washington University fellowship-trained physician in Nutritional Science and Geriatrics and is board certified in Family Medicine. She is the founder of the Institute for Muscle Centric-Medicine™ and has a private practice that services the leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in their prospective fields. In addition, Dr. Lyon also works closely with Special Operations Military. Her goal is to change the paradigm of medicine from obesity-focused to muscle-centric and change the way we think about health and medicine with high scientific integrity.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why muscle is key to overall health and longevity (5:25 / 2:14) 
• How much protein should you eat vs the government’s Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) (11:12 / 9:26) 
• Essential amino acids, animal vs plant sources of protein, and building muscle (18:55 / 15:10) 
• How much protein do you need to eat with each meal? (29:04 / 26:02)
• Research showing that dietary protein will reduce hunger and cravings (33:54 / 29:15)
• High-protein food sources (37:22 / 32:19) 
• Is meat bad for your health? (39:38 / 34:44) 
• Stimulating mTOR, our “longevity switch” (45:55 / 37:23)
• Muscle-centric medicine (54:50 / 50:08) 
• Dr. Lyon’s daily diet and exercise routine (1:05:09 / 1:00:24) 

Check out Dr. Lyon’s podcast, The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, here. Get her free protocol with a food guide and subscribe to Dr. Lyon’s newsletter at drgabriellelyon.com.

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Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading causes of death—and premature death at that—in the US. These diseases all have several risk factors in common, like smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet, which policy often views simply as personal choices. We need to begin looking at disease prevention beyond individual decision-making.

In this podcast, I talk with Dr. Anand Parekh, Senator Bill Frist, and Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian on the need for government policymakers to address disease prevention.

Dr. Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center’s chief medical advisor, providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization, particularly in the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. As a US Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. He is the author of Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America.

Senator Bill Frist is a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US Senate majority leader. He led passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act and the historic PEPFAR HIV/AIDS legislation that has saved millions of lives worldwide. As the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, and published seven books.

Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Dean and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical School. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications on dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases and on evidence-based policy approaches to reduce these burdens in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory roles, including for the US and Canadian governments.⁣⁣ ⁣

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While there are many reasons that could account for occasional sleepless nights or a few days of having trouble focusing on the job, if you find yourself having persistent sleep-related issues, it could be that your circadian rhythms are out of balance. So what can you do when your body’s internal clockwork gets off?

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I delve into circadian rhythms—what they are, why they’re important, and how you can reset yours when they become unbalanced.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What are circadian rhythms? (5:14 / 2:02) 
• The science behind circadian rhythms (6:29 / 3:17) 
• Why you should get 20 minutes of sunlight first thing in the morning (7:07 / 3:55) 
• What throws off your circadian rhythms? (8:04 / 4:51) 
• The impact of sleep medication on your circadian rhythms (9:29 / 6:20)  
• Ways to reset your circadian rhythms (10:20 / 7:08) 

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The Circadian Prescription: Get in Step with Your Body's Natural Rhythms

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Trauma isn’t just psychological; it impacts us all the way down to our genes. And those epigenetic changes don’t just stay with us—they can be passed down through several generations. That means the trauma we may be working through isn’t just our own, it’s the stress and trauma of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents. I know this might sound bleak, but today’s conversation on The Doctor’s Farmacy with Dr. James Gordon is about healing from all types of trauma to find greater mind-body peace. 

Dr. James Gordon, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Gordon is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School and was chairman (under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Cozy Earth.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• How the war in Ukraine is affecting Ukrainians’ mental health (5:24 / 2:00) 
• Recognizing trauma as a universal part of life (11:15 / 8:00) 
• Epigenetics and generational trauma (13:35 / 9:44) 
• Techniques Dr. Gordon uses to heal generational, cultural, and individual trauma (17:03 / 13:45) 
• Healing America’s divisiveness (24:53 / 21:10)
• Integrating unnamed and underlying cultural trauma (36:36 / 32:25) 
• Moving beyond the medical model when it comes to trauma (41:59 / 38:00) 
• Identifying and healing personal trauma (42:41 / 39:08) 
• Stories of transformation from Dr. Gordon’s work (55:00 / 50:52) 
• The importance of healing oneself first (1:00:54 / 56:40) 

Learn more about Dr. Gordon at jamesgordonmd.com. To support his trauma healing work in Ukraine, visit cmbm.org and click DONATE. 

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Food marketing and misguided dietary guidelines play a large role in the food choices we make. These foods are frequently devoid of nutritional value and, even worse, they are addictive and keep you going back for more. Our bodies are built and maintained by what we put in our mouths; we literally are what we eat. Unfortunately, that means the majority of people in our country are made of ultra-processed food-like substances that create disease. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Nina Teicholz, Michael Moss, and Vani Hari on the influence of food marketing and why the US government’s dietary guidelines may not be so healthy after all.

Nina Teicholz is a science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat—especially saturated fat—and spurred a new conversation about whether these fats in fact cause heart disease.

Michael Moss, a New York Times investigative reporter turned food-focused journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for Explanatory Reporting, and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, as well as the book Hooked: Food and Free Will, focused around food and addiction.

Vani Hari is the revolutionary food activist behind foodbabe.com, cofounder of organic food brand Truvani, New York Times best selling author of The Food Babe Way and Feeding You Lies. She has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, and General Mills that attracted more than 500,000 signatures and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies.

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Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Michael Moss

Vani Hari

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Heartburn and reflux are major problems for so many people. At least 10 percent of Americans have episodes of heartburn every day and 44 percent have symptoms at least once a month. So why are we suffering from reflux? What is the cause? Is it something we are doing or something we are eating? Is there some other factor that’s driving this epidemic?

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I discuss simple actions you can take to uncover the root cause of your reflux, the problem with acid-blocking drugs, and more.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Common triggers of reflux (2:25 / 1:45) 
• Getting to the root cause of your reflux (8:11 / 5:18)
• Supplements that can help with reflux (9:31 / 6:36) 
• The problem with taking acid-blocking drugs (10:36 / 7:40) 
• Tests you can get done through your doctor (11:07 / 8:11) 
• Weaning off acid-blocking drugs (12:16 / 9:15) 

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I would eat a lot more fish if I knew it was free from toxins like heavy metals, PCBs, and other dangerous compounds. It’s an incredibly healthy protein source when we can eliminate these factors, but sourcing clean fish can be tough. 

Today, I’m taking a deep dive into the issues surrounding fish, what kinds we should be eating, and everything in between with James Arthur Smith. 

James Arthur began his journey with regenerative aquaculture as a teenager volunteering at the Nature Interpretive Center in Southern California, where he got first-hand experience with a steelhead trout breeding and hatchery program. For the past ten years, he lived aboard and sailed around the Pacific from San Francisco to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Throughout that time, he’s been on a mission visiting ocean aquaculture farms, vetting claims, lab testing seafood, and connecting the best-in-class aquaculture projects with farm-to-table restaurants in California. 

In 2020 he founded SEATOPIA, a gourmet seafood subscription box now delivering certified mercury-safe seafood, carbon-neutral, direct to homes nationwide. Through SEATOPIA, he is endeavoring to scale a truly regenerative seafood supply chain and empower health-conscious consumers to directly support innovative aquaculture projects producing some of the healthiest protein on the planet.

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, InsideTracker, and Rupa Health.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why wild fish is not necessarily better than farmed fish (7:06 / 3:35) 
• Assessing the pros and cons of aquaculture (12:39 / 8:40) 
• The types of fish I recommend to my patients (17:50 /  14:31)
• Destructive industrial fishing practices (18:14 / 14:46) 
• The dangers of feedlot (or factory) fish (27:34 / 20:27) 
• Creating regenerative aquaculture (34:12 / 29:13) 
• Microplastics and fish consumption (41:15 / 36:29) 
• Why I rarely eat tuna (52:48 / 48:00)  
• Aquaculture policy efforts and challenges (1:02:59 / 57:38) 
• Creating a healthy supply chain for aquaculture feed (1:07:10 / 1:02) 

Learn more about Seatopia.

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There are actually many proven benefits of medical marijuana when it’s used the right way. In fact, cannabis may be one of the oldest documented herbal medicines on earth. And the body has a remarkable built-in system of endocannabinoid receptors that pair with it to reduce pain, improve sleep, increase mood, reduce nausea, and much more. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Misha Kogan, Dr. Josh Axe, and Jamie Wheal about the many benefits of cannabis, and we take a look at how the body’s built-in endocannabinoid healing system works in tandem with this plant medicine.

Dr. Mikhail “Misha” Kogan is the medical director of the George Washington University Center for Integrative Medicine and associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Kogan has recommended medical marijuana to thousands of patients and is a frequent lecturer on medical cannabis to professional audiences across the nation.

Dr. Josh 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 cofounder 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.

Jamie Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind and the global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Essentia.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Misha Kogan

Josh Axe

Jamie Wheal

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High blood pressure—medically known as hypertension—affects about 30 percent of adults. Left neglected, it can severely damage your quality of life and set the stage for heart disease, kidney complications, or a stroke. Conventional medicine typically treats hypertension with medications that are generally effective in reducing the risk of these complications. These medications frequently come with unintended side effects, however. The good news is the right foods and nutrients can dramatically lower blood pressure without the high costs and side effects of medications. 

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I discuss the driving forces of hypertension and the Functional Medicine approach to treating it.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Normal and optimal blood pressure levels (4:07 / 1:00) 
• The conventional medicine approach to treating high blood pressure (4:44 / 1:34) 
• Underlying causes of high blood pressure (5:34 / 2:04) 
• Does salt really cause high blood pressure? (7:30 / 4:20) 
• Diet and lifestyle strategies to normalize blood pressure (11:09 / 8:00)  
• Supplements for lowering blood pressure (14:18 / 11:07) 
• Exercise and blood pressure (14:40 / 11:30) 
• Stress, sleep, and blood pressure (15:14 / 12:03) 

Mentioned in this episode

UltraBroth Recipe

10-Day Reset Guide

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This episode is brought to you by Mitopure, Rupa Health, and FOND Bone Broth.

When we take a global bird's eye view of diets around the world, it’s clear that the Western diet makes humans sick. Any nation that has acquired our habits of eating highly-processed foods, rich in refined carbohydrates, fructose, and inflammatory fats, ends up metabolically unhealthy. Metabolic health is much more than just maintaining a healthy weight. It’s the sum of our cardiovascular, mitochondrial, liver, gut, and hormone function—and a poor diet impacts all of these systems for the worse. 

Today, I’m excited to talk to my friend and a physician who is an inspiration to me, Dr. Robert Lustig, all about fixing our metabolic health. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He’s the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He is also one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry, in part through his game-changing books. His latest work is Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The real problem with the Western diet (7:50 / 4:50) 
• Why fatty liver is so prevalent today (9:45 / 6:44) 
• How glucose and fructose affect the body differently (14:38 / 12:07) 
• Insulin resistance, mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic disease (18:08 / 14:00)
• How to know if you have insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome (21:54 / 18:07) 
• Why sugar, not salt, drives high blood pressure (34:54 / 29:27) 
• Eight subcellular pathologies that underlie metabolic disease (49:53 / 39:02) 
• Fixing your health with food (1:06:02 / 1:01:31
• Four things in our food supply that damage mitochondria (1:07:52 / 1:03:20) 
• How to fix our food system (1:12:46 / 1:08:10) 

Learn more about Dr. Lustig at robertlustig.com and get a copy of his book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. 

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Ask A Cardiologist episode with Dr. Neel Patel. 

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In Western culture, we’ve gained a negative view of aging. But in other cultures around the world, aging is celebrated and embraced. That’s because we define difficult symptoms like aches and pains, cognitive decline, and so many others as “aging” when they’re actually signs of dis-ease that can be prevented and often even reversed. Fortunately, there is much we can do to change the trajectory of aging starting at a young age, or at any age. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. David Sinclair, Dr. Frank Lipman, and Dan Buettner about all the ways to age better, from supplements to support mitochondria, to increasing muscle, to cultivating community, and more.

Dr. David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and codirector of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study longevity, aging, and how to slow its effects.

Dr. Frank Lipman is recognized as a vocal pioneer of integrative and Functional Medicine (or what he calls “Good Medicine”). Dr. Lipman is the founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and the Chief Medical Officer at The Well. He is a sought-after international speaker and the bestselling author of six books: How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young & Slim for Life, Revive, Total Renewal, and his newest book, The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality.⁣

Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world—dubbed Blue Zones—where people live the longest, healthiest lives.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Dan Buettner

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Typically, the first thing we reach for to deal with acne is a lotion, potion, or cream to apply to the skin—and conventional medicine doctors frequently prescribe birth control pills. These approaches do not target the root cause of acne, however. A growing body of research suggests it’s not what we slather on our skin that matters most but rather what is going on inside our body.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I talk about acne—the number-one skin condition in the United States—and its effects on not just millions of teenagers but an increasing number of adults.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Common causes of acne (4:16 / 1:16) 
• Foods to avoid if you have acne or are trying to prevent a breakout (5:34 / 2:34) 
• The gut-skin connection (7:22 / 4:45) 
• Considerations for using the birth control pill to treat acne (8:30 / 5:37) 
• Dietary and lifestyle changes for reversing acne (9:30 / 6:30) 
• Choosing skin-safe topical products (13:00 / 10:03) 

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If you’ve ever been curious about why you are the way you are, the Enneagram can provide some really interesting insights. Translating this ancient practice into modern life can help us understand our unique gifts and how we can best show up in the world. The Enneagram is a system of mapping nine ways of being, including personality and beyond. The teaching of the Enneagram—an ancient map of how we work—has a fascinating intersection with Buddhism—an ancient map of how the mind works. 

I couldn’t be more excited to sit down with my very good friend Susan Piver to explore this connection and learn more about using the Enneagram and Buddhism to create greater self-love. Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation, and The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships. Her newest book is The Buddhist Enneagram: Nine Paths to Warriorship.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is the Enneagram? (5:53 / 2:48) 
• The problem with the self-help movement (10:59 / 7:56) 
• When working on yourself is counterproductive (14:09 / 11:00) 
• Releasing self-aggression (16:03 / 13:32) 
• Three ways to work with difficult emotions (27:21 / 23:23) 
• Bringing the Enneagram into Buddhist thinking (33:31 / 28:49) 
• Finding your Enneagram type (35:04 / 30:23) 
• How the Enneagram can help free us from our negative self-talk (50:04 / 45:20) 
• Using tonglen meditation to deal with individual and global pain (54:22 / 50:42) 
• Directing our minds to gratitude and openness (1:02:02 / 56:08) 

Get a copy of Susan’s book, The Buddhist Enneagram: Nine Paths to Warriorship, here, and find her online community, the Open Heart Project, here.

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Omega-3 is a fatty acid your body uses in all kinds of ways. Its benefits for our body are hard to overstate. But unlike most fats, your body can’t manufacture omega-3. Instead, it’s an “essential nutrient,” which means the only way to get it is through your diet.

In today’s episode, I talk with Paul Greenberg, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Daniel Amen about the importance of essential fatty acids like omega-3 for sleep, brain and heart health, and more.

Paul Greenberg is the bestselling author of Four Fish, American Catch, and The Omega Principle. A regular contributor to the New York Times and many other publications, Mr. Greenberg is the writer-in-residence at the Safina Center, a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, and the recipient of a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature.

Dr. Andrew Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, which is given to the scientist making the largest discoveries in the study of vision. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets.

Dr. Daniel Amen is a physician, double-board-certified psychiatrist, 12-time New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 10 US locations. Dr. Amen is the author of many books including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as The End of Mental Illness, Memory Rescue, Healing ADD, and Your Brain Is Always Listening. His new book, You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, is now available.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and FOND Bone Broth.

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For years well-meaning doctors, echoed by the media, have emphasized what they have long believed is the intimate link between cholesterol and death by heart disease. If only it were so simple! You may hope that if you monitor your cholesterol levels and avoid the foods that are purported to raise cholesterol, you’ll be safe from America’s number-one killer. The truth is much more complex. Cholesterol is only one factor among many—and it’s not even the most important one—that contribute to your risk of getting heart disease.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I talk about why standard cholesterol testing is outdated and why cholesterol may not be the cause of heart disease.  

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is cholesterol? (4:36 / 1:48) 
• The myth around cholesterol and dietary fat (5:06 / 2:25) 
• The biggest source of abnormal cholesterol is not fat—it’s sugar (7:43 / 4:58) 
• How lifestyle, environmental influences, and genetics influence cholesterol (8:28 / 5:44)
• Key contributors to heart disease (11:05 / 8:19) 
• Tests to determine your risk for cardiovascular disease (13:13 / 10:24) 
• How to lower your risk of heart disease and fix your cholesterol (16:58 / 14:10)  
• The benefits, side effects, and risks of taking statin drugs (18:30 / 15:53) 

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If you or a loved one struggle with addiction, this is an episode you’re going to want to listen to. Many of our current pharmaceuticals stem from compounds discovered in plant medicines. And many beneficial plants that were discovered decades ago still have huge potential for changing modern medicine—ibogaine is one of them. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to sit down with Dr. Deborah Mash to discuss the use of the African plant ibogaine and its metabolite, noribogaine, in the treatment of addiction and how it could impact the devastating opioid epidemic. 

Dr. Deborah Mash is one of the world's foremost experts on ibogaine. She is the CEO and Founder of DemeRx Inc., a clinical-stage drug development company advancing ibogaine and its active metabolite noribogaine for the treatment of opioid use disorder. DemeRx has partnered with ATAI Life Sciences—a global biotech platform with a special focus on psychedelic medicine—to develop ibogaine for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Building on the extensive human data available around ibogaine, DemeRx and ATAI are conducting a Clinical Phase I/II trial in opioid-dependent patients. This landmark trial will advance screening procedures, dosing guidelines, and best practices for opioid withdrawal management and relapse prevention.  

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, InisdeTracker, and Rupa Health.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The long history of ibogaine’s ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological use (7:01 / 4:10) 
• The power of ibogaine to reset opioid tolerance and bypass many withdrawal symptoms in a single dose (15:41 / 8:11) 
• How ibogaine works (20:59 / 14:15) 
• Using ibogaine to protect against future relapse (26:09 / 19:25) 
• Efforts to understand the importance of ibogaine’s psychedelic effects (30:05 / 24:54) 
• Assessing the success rates of recovery and relapse prevention from ibogaine treatment (37:49 / 34:02) 
• Understanding the underlying drivers of addiction for better recovery and relapse treatment (41:46 / 37:55) 
• The concept of “psychoplastogens” and turning on synaptic plasticity in the brain (51:44 / 47:52) 
• Humanity’s relationship to plants and plant medicines (57:25 /  53:34) 
• Risks associated with and considerations for seeking ibogaine treatment (1:03:24 / 59:37)

Learn more about Dr. Mash’s work at demerx.com.

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Gluten is one ingredient we all love in bread or our favorite pizza dough, but it’s often the cause of inflammation and leaky gut, which is implicated in so many health conditions such as IBS, skin problems, Hashimoto’s, high blood pressure, and more. And it is not just people with celiac disease who are affected.

In today’s episode, I talk with Maggie Ward, Dr. Alessio Fasano, and Dr. George Papanicolaou about how gluten affects the gut and how to know if it's a problem for you.

Maggie Ward, MS, RD, LDN, is the Nutrition Director at The UltraWellness Center. Maggie holds a master’s degree in Nutrition from Bastyr University, which focuses on using whole foods for holistic nutrition therapy. She completed her requirements to become a registered dietitian at Westchester Medical Center in New York. Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center team in 2008, Maggie worked at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York.

Advancing innovation in research, clinical care, and education, Alessio Fasano, MD, has dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for people with celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders. He founded the Center for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1996. In 2013, he moved the center to Massachusetts General Hospital and renamed it the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment. He is chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in family medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. Upon graduation from his residency, he joined the Indian Health Service. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health—a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and HigherDOSE.

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Hidden inflammation is at the root of all chronic illness—conditions like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, depression, cancer, and even autism. So if inflammation is at the root of most modern diseases, how do we find the causes and get the body back in balance? First, we need to identify the triggers and causes of inflammation. Then we need to help reset the body’s natural immune balance by providing the right conditions for it to thrive.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking about inflammation, how it’s linked to everything from obesity to all of the chronic diseases of aging, and how to combat it.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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• What is inflammation, and why can it become so dangerous? (3:36 / 00:54)
• The problem with common treatments such as anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids (8:05 / 5:23) 
• Testing to determine if you are suffering from hidden inflammation (9:40 / 6:58) 
• The biggest drivers of inflammation (11:06 / 8:22) 
• Steps to living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle (15:48 / 13:06) 

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I know many of us can relate to feeling disconnected from each other, the natural world, and the things that really matter in life. So how did we lose our way and how can we make better sense of the world? It takes some inner work but also means cultivating truth and connecting with community, in order to reshape our narrative and change the collective conversation and state of the world. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I have a deep conversation on rediscovering meaning with Jamie Wheal, about reclaiming our inner passion, courage, and conviction.

Jamie Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind and the global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance. 

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• What does it mean to recapture the rapture? (8:43 / 3:40) 
• Personal growth vs self-indulgence (10:33 / 7:44) 
• How the foundations of our understanding of the world are collapsing and transforming (23:39 / 19:35) 
• Finding meaning and purpose in our modern world (30:00 / 24:30) 
• The power of healing in community (33:38 / 25:42) 
• Using breathwork, embodiment, sexuality, substances, and music to help us reconnect to ourselves and each other (37:31 / 33:14) 
• Applying the tools of Hedonic Engineering to real lives and relationships (57:16 / 53:10) 
• Research Jamie conducted with real-life couples (1:09:24 / 1:05)
• Why we need ethical guidelines to steer through our own personal explorations (1:19:16 / 1:15:02) 
• Ten ethical guidelines that Jamie developed (1:22:22 / 1:16:40)

Get a copy of Jamie’s book, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind, here.

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Instead of using a pharmaceutical drug, what if your doctor knew how to look deeper to find out what is causing your depression, ADHD, or anxiety? While there is a time and a place for drugs, they can have significant side effects and may not be as effective at correcting an underlying imbalance in the body. Functional Medicine practitioners look at gut health, genes, diet, hormones, and so much more to create a thorough healing plan.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Uma Naidoo, Dr. George Papanicolaou, and Dr. Drew Ramsey about how diet and lifestyle can be both a cause of and treatment for depression and other mental health issues.

Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutrition specialist. In her role as a clinical scientist, Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based clinical service in nutritional psychiatry in the US. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Naidoo is the author of This is Your Brain on Food. ⁣

Dr. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in family medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. Upon graduation from his residency, he joined the Indian Health Service. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health—a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

Dr. Drew Ramsey is a psychiatrist, author, farmer, and founder of the Brain Food Clinic in New York City, offering treatment and consultation for depression, anxiety, and emotional wellness concerns. He is the author of three books, most recently the award-winning cookbook Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients That Fuel Brain Power, Boost Weight Loss, and Transform Your Health.

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“Fatty liver” literally means your liver fills with fat, which paves the way for chronic disease and inflammation. Fatty liver is a dangerous yet misunderstood disease. It is also very common, affecting 90 million Americans alone. You need a healthy liver to combat toxic junk and chemicals in your environment. A healthy liver means your body stays healthy, you don’t get sick, and you maintain plenty of energy. A fatty liver, on the other hand, has numerous repercussions including inflammation, which triggers insulin resistance and prediabetes, meaning your body deposits fat in your liver and organs, including your belly (called visceral fat). Fatty liver can also lead to more serious problems including high triglycerides, low HDL (“good” cholesterol), and high amounts of small LDL (dangerous cholesterol particles that can cause heart attacks). Fatty liver also increases your heart attack risk.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking about how to identify if you have fatty liver, what’s causing it, and how to fix it.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is fatty liver disease? (4:16 / 00:40) 
• Causes of fatty liver disease (5:23 / 2:25) 
• How to know if you have fatty liver disease (5:51 / 2:54) 
• The dangers of fatty liver disease (6:57 / 4:06) 
• Fructose and fatty liver (8:57 / 5:55)  
• Foods to avoid and to eat to fix a fatty liver (10:31 / 7:42)
• Supplements to support the liver (12:41 / 9:44) 
• Detoxifying, liver-repairing superfoods (13:54 /10:26) 

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For decades, I’ve been on a mission to help my patients understand that weight loss is not about “calories in, calories out”. There are a multitude of factors that play into how our body makes, stores, and burns fat and the actual amount of calories we eat is one small drop in the bucket of our complex biology. Today, I’m excited to talk with Dr. Casey Means about the main drivers people face when struggling to lose weight and what we can do about them. 

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer, and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate a deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means’ perspective has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The top reasons for resistance to weight loss beyond food, sleep, stress management, and exercise (5:41 / 2:30) 
• Obesogens, obesity, and resistance to weight loss (11:41 / 8:50)
• Common sources of toxins in our daily lives (13:57 / 9:45) 
• How toxins negatively affect our health (14:44 / 12:10) 
• Why detoxification is an important component of weight loss (17:45 / 15:00) 
• Limiting our toxic exposure (18:49 / 16:26) 
• The role of micronutrients in resistance to weight loss (29:33 / 25:16) 
• Tips for grocery shopping for micronutrients (40:02 / 35:50) 
• The impact of light on our metabolism (47:29 / 43:14) 
• Using a continuous glucose monitor to improve your metabolic health (55:36 / 51:35) 

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For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on stopping stress with your vagus with Dr. Titus Chiu. 

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Your gut is your inner garden—the more good bugs you have in it the more likely it is to flourish. Our gut bacteria regulate many of our bodily functions, from creating vitamins to controlling our immune system, our brain function, and, of course, our metabolism and weight. They are critical to our long-term health. But even if you’re eating the right things, you may need some outside assistance maintaining plentiful and diverse gut bacteria. Probiotics help populate your gut with beneficial bacteria, improving your sleep, daily elimination, brain health, and so much more. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dhru Purohit, Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh, and Dr. Elizabeth Boham about probiotics, the importance of the gut microbiome starting in infancy, and why you should work with a skilled practitioner to choose the right probiotic for you.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh is leading the work in understanding the infant microbiome. She is a nutritional scientist who helps new and expectant moms learn about creating healthy gut bugs in their babies. Dr. Shafizadeh received her Ph.D. in nutritional biology from the University of California, Davis, and spends her free time "loving the guts" out of her two boys.

Dr. 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.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Your brain is an organ that’s connected to everything else happening in your body. Most of us never learn how to manage our energy and bodies. Instead, we use drugs like sugar, caffeine, and alcohol to self-medicate and manage our energy and moods. We don’t connect our behaviors and choices with how we feel. Many of us get too little good food, nutrients, light, air, water, rest, sleep, rhythm, exercise, community, love, meaning, and purpose. We’re exposed to far too much poor-quality food, stress, toxins, and allergens. But even if you manage all those things correctly, you still might not be getting the right amount of certain nutrients that support your brain and body. That’s where supplements come in.

In today’s episode in my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking about how to heal our broken brains with the right nutrients. The brain is resilient and can recover and heal when given the right conditions.

This episode is brought to you by  Beekeeper’s Naturals and Athletic Greens.

Right now, Beekeeper’s Naturals is giving my community an exclusive offer. Just go to beekeepersnaturals.com/HYMAN and enter code HYMAN to get 25% off your first order.

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Things that damage our brain (3:48 / 1:18) 
• The top nutrients we need to support our brain health: multivitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, vitamin D, folate, B6, and B12, and probiotics (6:17 / 2:55)
• The gut-brain connection (11:26 / 8:55) 
• The role of glutathione in brain function and how to boost it (12:24 / 9:46) 
• Supporting mitochondria for brain health (13:14 / 10:42) 
• Calming nutrients to support the brain (14:13 / 11:42)

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Our relationships affect our health and happiness. The problem is that we’re never taught how to seek, create, nurture, and assess our relationships the same way we do our careers and bank accounts. But the cost of bad relationships on ourselves and our society truly adds up. The relationships many of us grew up around and might consider “normal” are in fact dysfunctional, creating a negative cycle we often don’t even realize we’re in. So how can we find good love, create good relationships, and keep them? That’s what today’s conversation with Mia Lux is all about. 

Mia merges the playful and the profound—drawing on her experience as a start-up CEO, stand-up comedian, personal growth junkie, and recovering lawyer. For over 7 years, Mia has been an international host, comedian & facilitator, specializing in designing and facilitating top wellness/personal development experiences around the world. Now, Mia is channeling this in the name of love as the Co-Founder & CEO of La Vette, a radical new platform designed to rehumanize dating in the digital era. 

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• How our relationships affect our health and happiness (6:01 / 2:25)
• Shifting away from dysfunctional relationships toward intentional relationships (7:49 / 5:04)
• Self-inquiry to support healthy love relationships (14:07 / 11:30)
• Identifying the unconscious beliefs driving us into relationships (19:05 / 15:37) 
• Letting go of good love and conscious uncoupling (25:11 / 20:02) 
• Scientific predictors of relationship success (27:18 / 23:52) 
• Interpersonal skills to improve your dating life and relationships (31:59 / 26:37) 
• Speaking your truth in relationships (38:47 / 33:40) 
• Navigating the dangers of dating (40:18 / 36:10) 
• The importance of vulnerability and authenticity in dating and relationships (48:17 / 45:35) 

Learn more about LaVette and try your first month free at lavette.love/drhyman.

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Hair loss is a commonly experienced issue and often signals something deeper going on in the body. And as there are many different types of hair loss, there are also many various drivers of hair loss, including hormonal imbalance, metabolic dysfunction, or even autoimmune disease. This is why Functional Medicine practitioners look at gut and metabolic health, nutrient status, and much more to find the root cause of hair loss.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham, Dhru Purohit, and Dr. Cynthia Li about the many different types of hair loss and their associated underlying causes.

Dr. 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.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. Cynthia Li received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She has practiced as an internist in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic serving the homeless. Her personal health challenges led her to integrative and Functional Medicine, and she currently has a private practice in Berkeley, CA. She serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and she is the author of Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Pique Tea.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Dr. Cynthia Li

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Thyroid disease affects one in five women and one in ten men, yet 50 percent of people with thyroid disease go undiagnosed. The main role of thyroid hormone is to stimulate metabolism, and it affects almost every function of the body. That’s why thyroid imbalance can cause so many different symptoms.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss thyroid disease and why an out-of-whack thyroid can stall your metabolism and create many other problems. I also share why using a whole-foods diet, nutritional supplements, and optimizing thyroid hormone replacement is critical for addressing thyroid disorders. 

This episode is sponsored by Paleovalley and Pendulum.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is the thyroid gland and how does it function? (4:38 / 1:42) 
• Symptoms of hypothyroidism (7:05 / 4:11) 
• Diagnostic testing to assess thyroid function (8:42 / 4:54) 
• What causes thyroid problems? (10:22 / 7:30) 
• My approach to healing hypothyroidism (14:58 / 10:20) 
• Thyroid-supporting foods and foods to avoid (15:15 / 12:20) 
• Supplements that support your thyroid (17:00 / 14:04) 
• Thyroid hormone replacement (17:46 / 14:50) 

If you suspect you have hypothyroidism, 

• take a thorough inventory of any of the symptoms mentioned in the podcast to see if you might be suffering from hypothyroidism.
• get a full-spectrum thyroid test that includes TSH, free T3, free T4, TPO, and antithyroglobulin antibodies.
• check for celiac disease with a celiac panel.
• consider heavy metal toxicity testing.
• check your vitamin D level.

Mentioned in this episode

Self-Assessment Tool within The UltraThyroid Solution Workbook (Download here)

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If you’ve ever wondered if supplements are worthwhile or just create expensive urine, this is the podcast episode for you. While I wish it wasn’t the case, I do believe we need supplements to make up for the nutrients we can no longer get through food alone. It’s extra important to note, though, that not all supplements are created equal. And please keep in mind they’re called “supplements” for a reason, not “replacements”—they are meant to supplement a healthy diet and lifestyle to provide the most impact.

Today, I’m excited to take a deeper dive into this topic with one of my most trusted sources when it comes to nutrition and dietary research, Chris Kresser. Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac. is the co-founder of the California Center for Functional Medicine, the founder of Kresser Institute, the host of the top-ranked health podcast Revolution Health Radio, the creator of ChrisKresser.com, and the New York Times best-selling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. Chris is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health and has trained over 2,000 clinicians and health coaches from over 50 countries in his unique approach. He has recently launched Adapt Naturals, a supplement line designed to add back in what the modern world has squeezed out and help people perform and feel their best.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Cozy Earth.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Do we really need to take supplements? (5:14 / 1:54) 
• Why our food is less nutritious than it used to be (13:32 / 10:10) 
• Can you really get your nutrients from food? (15:28 / 12:10) 
• The prevalence of, and most common, nutritional deficiencies (16:27 / 13:35) 
• Testing your nutrient levels (21:35 / 18:25)
• Symptoms of common nutrient deficiencies (29:03 / 25:05) 
• Can you take too much or overdose on nutrients? (41:57 / 36:58) 
• What to look for in a quality vitamin or supplement (51:37 / 47:10) 
• What nutrients are provided by plant vs animal foods (59:41 / 55:06)  
• The most nutrient-dense foods (1:10:23 / 1:05:45) 

Learn more about Chris at ChrisKresser.com and check out his new supplement line, Adapt Naturals.

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Sleep is a keystone of health. Most people know they should get more high-quality sleep, but they don’t really know where to start. But understanding the way our brain and neurotransmitters work means we can hack our sleep to not just feel amazing but to level up our focus, skills, and knowledge. And it’s not all about what happens at night, either—getting the right exposure to light at the right times has a profound impact on our circadian rhythms and the way our bodies transition to sleep.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Roger Seheult, Dhru Purohit, and Dr. Andrew Huberman about why optimizing your sleep should be prioritized and how you can get better sleep.

Dr. Roger Seheult is currently an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, and an assistant clinical professor at the School of Medicine and Allied Health at Loma Linda University. Dr. Seheult is quadruple board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is also the cofounder of MedCram, an online medical education company that helps healthcare professionals and laypeople understand medical topics clearly.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. Andrew Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, which is given to the scientist making the largest discoveries in the study of vision. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets.

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Dhru Purohit

Dr. Andrew Huberman

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This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker and Athletic Greens.

Believe it or not, the surface area of your small intestine, which is where your food is absorbed, is the size of a tennis court. Your small intestine is also the home of your gut-immune system, which accounts for about 60 percent of your total immune system. The lining of this sophisticated system is just one cell layer away from a toxic sewer where all of the bacteria and undigested food particles live in your gut. If that lining breaks down—from stress; too many antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen; steroids; intestinal infections; a low-fiber, high-sugar diet; alcohol; and more—your immune system will be exposed to foreign particles from food, bacteria, and other microbes. This, in turn, creates havoc that can lead to an irritable bowel and other system-wide problems including allergies, arthritis, and autoimmune and mood disorders.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss how to heal irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and upregulate your gut health, which is at the forefront of Americans’ most common health complaints.

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker and Athletic Greens.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is irritable bowel syndrome? (4:05 / 1:12)
• Symptoms of IBS (4:30 / 1:35) 
• Causes of IBS (4:54 / 2:00) 
• Identifying food allergies as the potential cause of IBS (8:00 / 5:11) 
• How gut imbalance leads to IBS (9:36 /  6:44)
• Diagnostic testing to access gut health (12:14 / 9:25) 
• What is SIBO, how does it cause IBS, and how is it diagnosed? (15:20 / 12:29) 
• Assessing if yeast overgrowth is causing your gut issues (15:58 / 13:05) 
• Treating yeast overgrowth and SIBO (16:40 / 13:50) 
• Strategies for rebooting the gut and restoring optimal gut health (17:44 / 14:55) 

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and FOND Bone Broth.

Why are we seeing more chronic disease, stress, obesity, addiction, and so many other states of illness than ever before, despite having the most advanced medical system in the world?

Because we aren’t living in a natural and normal world. We’re actually having normal responses to our abnormal circumstances, many of which create trauma that gets stored in the brain and body. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m honored to talk to my dear friend Dr. Gabor Maté about the myth of normal, and why doing the difficult work of uncovering trauma is essential for living our fullest expression of life. 

A renowned speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, and has co-authored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His latest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture was just released. 

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and FOND Bone Broth.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Uncovering my personal trauma history (6:42 / 3:50) 
• Scientific evidence linking trauma and stress to physical and mental illness (14:38 / 11:45)  
• Social determinants of health (16:34 / 14:15) 
• Our crisis of separation, disconnection, and loneliness (20:25 / 18:00) 
• The link between addiction, our profit-driven culture, and trauma (25:16 / 22:20) 
• The myth of normal (31:07 / 26:33) 
• Tools, therapies, and resources for your own healing (49:50 / 45:41) 
• Treating trauma with plant medicines and psychedelics (55:40 / 51:16) 
• The biology of psychology (1:10:46 / 1:06:20) 
• Gabor’s vision for our society (1:31:42 / 1:25:48) 

Learn more about Gabor Maté at drgabormate.com and get a copy of his new book, The Myth of Normal—Trauma, Illness, & Healing In a Toxic Culture, here.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Levels.

We’ve been told that cognitive decline is inevitable, but researchers are discovering that we have more power over our aging brains than we once thought. What we eat, what we think, and how we live have incredible influence over the health of our brains—and our entire bodies. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Max Lugavere, Dr. Christopher Palmer, and Dr. Daniel Amen about foods that improve brain health, the link between our metabolic health and brain health, choosing happiness, and so much more.

Max Lugavere is a health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, now published in 10 languages around the globe. His sophomore book, also a bestseller, is called The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary. Max is the host of a number-one iTunes health and wellness podcast called The Genius Life.

Dr. Christopher Palmer is a psychiatrist and researcher working at the intersection of metabolism and mental health. He is the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For over 25 years, he has held leadership roles in psychiatric education, conducted research, and worked with people who have treatment-resistant mental illnesses. He has been pioneering the use of the medical ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric disorders—conducting research, treating patients, writing, and speaking around the world on this topic.

Dr. Daniel Amen is a physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, twelve-time New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 10 US locations. Dr. Amen is the author of many books including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as The End of Mental Illness, Memory Rescue, Healing ADD, and Your Brain Is Always Listening. His new book, You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, is now available.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Levels.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. Check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Max Lugavere

Dr. Christopher Palmer

Dr. Daniel Amen

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This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and Athletic Greens.

Think of magnesium as the relaxation mineral. Anything that is tight, irritable, crampy, and stiff—whether it is a body part or even a mood—can be a sign of magnesium deficiency. This critical mineral is actually responsible for over 600 enzyme reactions and is found in all of your tissues—but mainly in your bones, muscles, and brain. You must have it for your cells to make energy, for many different chemical pumps to work, to stabilize membranes, and to help muscles relax. Yet, so many of us are deficient in this important mineral. 

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss why magnesium deficiency is a huge problem, why most of us are deficient, how to identify if you are magnesium deficient, and what to do about it.  

This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and Athletic Greens.

ButcherBox makes it easy to get humanely raised meat and wild-caught, sustainable seafood by delivering it right to your doorstep. If you sign up at butcherbox.com/farmacy, ButcherBox will give you two pounds of ground beef free for one whole year.

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now, when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 free travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why magnesium deficiency is so prevalent (3:26 / 00:57) 
• Signs of magnesium deficiency (4:11 / 1:48) 
• Magnesium use in a traditional hospital setting (5:37 / 3:15) 
• Testing your magnesium levels (7:26 / 5:02) 
• Food sources of magnesium (7:51 / 5:27) 
• Things that deplete magnesium in the body (8:11 / 5:50) 
• Other vitamins and minerals needed to ensure adequate magnesium levels (9:22 / 7:02)
• How to stop magnesium depletion (9:33 / 7:10) 
• Magnesium supplements (10:24 / 8:03)

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and BiOptimizers.

Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, affects 5 to 10% of women in their childbearing years. Despite the many women struggling with the difficult symptoms of PCOS, we still know little about it. Those symptoms can include irregular or missing periods, excessive hair growth or hair loss, acne, and weight gain. Sadly, the average woman with PCOS sees four doctors before receiving a diagnosis. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Dr. Heather Huddleston to dig into the nuances and research around PCOS.

Dr. Huddleston is the founder of the UCSF Multi-disciplinary PCOS Clinic and Research Center. This clinic provides care via an integrated group of providers with expertise in reproductive endocrinology, dermatology, nutrition, and psychology. Through the associated research program, Dr. Huddleston oversees investigations aimed at advancing our understanding of how physical activity, depression, cognition, sleep, and metabolic health all contribute to the manifestations of PCOS. Dr. Huddleston is passionate about broadly improving the care of patients with PCOS and serves as a medical advisor to Allara Health, which is an all-in-one virtual care platform for people with PCOS. 

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and BiOptimizers.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/hyman and use code Hyman10.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why PCOS often falls through the cracks in our siloed medical system (6:04 / 3:12) 
• Symptoms of PCOS (7:34 / 4:50) 
• Do we know the causes of PCOS? (9:18 / 6:26) 
• Diet, nutrition, gut health, and PCOS (14:00 / 10:21)
• How inflammation affects and exacerbates PCOS (17:15 / 14:22)
• The five areas Dr. Huddleston addresses with PCOS patients (22:54 / 18:20) 
• Therapies for and approaches to treating PCOS (25:29 / 20:45) 
• Supplements for treating PCOS (30:37 / 26:19) 
• How exercise and quality sleep can benefit PCOS patients (33:23 / 28:52)  
• Measuring insulin levels and diagnosing insulin resistance (43:03 / 38:35) 

Learn more about Dr. Huddleston here. Learn more about Allara at allarahealth.com.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on Meal Planning Tips & Setting Up Your Kitchen for Optimal Health with functional nutritionist, Taylor Groff. 

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The most profound cases of healing are in people who refuse to give up. Even if they’ve found some things that improve their condition, they continue searching for new ways to feel better and better. This is how we break down walls in medicine. The Functional Medicine methodology is the same; there is no end to searching for what is underneath the symptoms. Functional Medicine healing protocols can ultimately help change the prognosis of so many conditions, including the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Terry Wahls and Dr. Todd LePine about using diet, meditation, and much more to reverse devastating autoimmune disease symptoms.

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. Her secondary progressive multiple sclerosis confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years, but she restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for mitochondrial health and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, and the cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.

Dr. Todd 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.

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Glutathione is the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent disease—yet you’ve probably never heard of it. It’s the secret to preventing aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia, and more, and it is necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer’s disease. The good news is your body produces its own glutathione. The bad news is poor diet, pollution, toxins, medications, stress, trauma, aging, infections, and radiation all deplete your glutathione levels.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss what glutathione is, why it’s important, and tips to help you optimize your glutathione levels, improve your detoxification system, and help protect yourself from chronic illness.

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker and Athletic Greens.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What is glutathione? (4:26 / 1:31) 
• Diagnostic testing of glutathione levels (6:08 / 3:16) 
• Why many people have a limited ability to detoxify (6:29 / 4:09) 
• The three main ways glutathione protects against chronic illness (8:38/ 5:46)
• Foods that support glutathione production (10:53 / 8:00) 
• How exercise boosts glutathione (13:23 / 10:30) 
• Reducing toxic exposure (14:19 / 11:35) 
• Supplementing with N-acetyl-cysteine, alpha lipoic acid, methylation nutrients (folate and vitamins B6 and B12), selenium, antioxidants (including vitamins C and E in the form of mixed tocopherols), and milk thistle to boost glutathione (14:45 / 11:50) 

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Environmental Working Group 

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All living things are programmed with a certain lifespan, which can be dramatically different from species to species. Humans now, in general, live twice as long as our ancestors, thanks to environmental changes and advances in medicine. But most of us spend the last years of our lives without the quality of life we really want. We’ve come to identify a slew of symptoms and chronic diseases as a natural part of aging, but do they really have to be?

Today I’m excited to talk to Dr. George Church all about the latest science on reprogramming our genes to extend our healthspan and lifespan. Dr. George Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, a founding member of the Wyss Institute, and director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world’s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data. Dr. Church is known for pioneering the fields of personal genomics and synthetic biology. He developed the first methods for the first genome sequence and his team invented CRISPR for human stem cell genome editing and other synthetic biology technologies and applications—including new ways to create organs for transplantation, gene therapies for aging reversal, and gene drives to eliminate Lyme disease and malaria. Dr. Church is the director of IARPA & NIH BRAIN Projects and the National Institutes of Health Center for Excellence in Genomic Science.  He is the author of Regenesis.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The top things that prevent disease and enhance longevity (7:06 / 4:13) 
• Defining aging as a disease and treating it as such (8:24 /  5:40) 
• Reprogramming and repairing cells to a younger state (12:24 / 9:35) 
• The future, and challenges, of delivering Yamanaka factors for cell reprogramming (15:05 / 11:50) 
• Gene editing vs gene therapy (28:02 / 22:36) 
• Using gene therapy to reverse disease and lengthen life span (34:44 / 30:55) 
• Animal-to-human organ transplants (37:34 / 33:04) 
• Can we live youthfully to 100 years old and beyond? (44:31 / 40:34) 
• How much and what types of protein do we need for healthy aging? (50:30 / 45:50) 
• Using gene editing to bring back mammoths to restore damaged ecosystems (1:00:53 / 56:50) 

Get a copy of George Church and Ed Regis’ book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, here.

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In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode.

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The majority of foods on our market shelves contain insane amounts of added sugar. One of the most problematic of these sugars is fructose, which raises our levels of uric acid, a central player in the metabolic mayhem affecting so many of us. This doesn’t mean all foods containing fructose are bad. Like all parts of health and nutrition, there are nuances we need to consider to create optimal health.

In today’s episode, I talk with Drs. David Perlmutter, Casey Means, and Richard Johnson about how fructose and uric acid impact our physiology, why measuring uric acid levels is so important, and how fructose impacts our energy. 

Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. He serves on the board of directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He is the author of Grain Brain among others, and his new book, Drop Acid, was just released. Dr. Perlmutter received his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award.

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer, and cofounder of metabolic health company Levels, an associate editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a guest lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate a deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices.

Dr. Richard Johnson is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver and has been a practicing physician and clinical scientist for over 25 years. He is internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar, and its component fructose, in obesity and diabetes. His work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid (which is generated during fructose metabolism) in metabolic syndrome. He previously authored The Sugar Fix with Timothy Gower in 2008, and The Fat Switch in 2012. His new book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, was just released.

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Dr. Casey Means

Dr. Richard Johnson

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There are 37 billion chemical reactions happening within your body every second. And every single one of these reactions requires vitamins and minerals to make it work. This is why what you put on your fork is the most important thing you do every day, and it’s why I say food isn’t like medicine—food is medicine. It’s information, and it’s the most powerful drug on the planet. It influences your capacity to live a rich, energetic, connected, soulful life.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss how to use food as medicine. I share the principles of eating an optimal diet, a list of the foods we should avoid, my number-one food philosophy, and more!

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why food is the most powerful tool in your medical toolbox (3:44 / 1:38)
• How food upgrades or downgrades your biological software with every bite (6:46 / 4:50)
• Nutrigenomics and personalized nutrition (10:01 / 7:47)
• What is the optimal diet? (13:13 / 11:03)
• What should we avoid? (17:17 / 15:03)
• My number-one food philosophy (18:38 / 16:26)

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I’ve always been a big proponent of learning from those who came before us. The knowledge of ancient cultures is one piece of the foundation of modern medicine, but much shamanic wisdom has been ignored and is now being lost. It benefits us to stop and think about what’s going on below the surface, the things we can’t see—for our health, our perception of reality, everything. Invisible bacteria is one example, wisdom is another. Today I am thrilled to talk to my friend Alberto Villoldo about the role of ancient wisdom in health, healing, and aging optimally. 

Medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo Ph.D. is an international bestselling author who has researched the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 25 years. He is the founder of the Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to the bridging of ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology. Dr. Villoldo is the author of numerous books, including Power Up Your Brain; Shaman, Healer, Sage; Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval; The Four Insights; Courageous Dreaming; One Spirit Medicine, and Grow a New Body. His latest book is The Wisdom Wheel: A Mythic Journey through the Four Directions, which we talk more about in this episode. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What shamans view as our one illness and its one cure (6:08 / 3:24)
• Differentiating information and wisdom (9:44 / 7:02) 
• How Alberto introduced me to a different way of healing (10:56 / 8:21) 
• What is a shaman? (14:24 / 11:43) 
• Why our brain needs ceremony, ritual, and rites of passage to heal (25:43 / 21:34)
• Gaining insight into the invisible world (34:05 / 29:54) 
• How to upgrade your brain (38:58 / 34:45) 
• The four animal archetype levels of shamanic healing (45:31 / 41:26)  
• Using plant medicines and psychedelics to heal trauma (52:04 / 47:52) 
• How plant compounds are indispensable to human health and healing (1:02:55 / 59:04) 

Learn more about Alberto here and get a copy of his new book, The Wisdom Wheel: A Mythic Journey through the Four Directions, here.

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As you lose muscle, you lose mitochondria and your metabolism slows down. Then there is the fact that the natural loss of muscle mass and strength as we age is associated with all-cause mortality and linked to the incidence of many chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease and stroke, hypertension, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. This is why muscle mass is not only essential for maintaining a healthy weight, but it’s also a key factor in reducing the risk of chronic disease and improving your healthspan and longevity. 

In this episode, I speak with Drs. Stuart Phillips and Chris Rinsch, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, and Mark Sisson about the importance of supporting our body’s largest organ, muscle.

Dr. Chris Rinsch is co-founder and CEO at Amazentis where he oversees the company’s operations in Switzerland. For more than two decades, he has been an innovator in the life sciences arena. 

Dr. Stuart Phillips is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and a member of the School of Medicine at McMaster University. He is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health. He is also the Director of the McMaster University Physical Activity Centre of Excellence. 

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is an integrative physician who completed her fellowship in Nutritional Sciences and Geriatrics at Washington University, St. Louis. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and completed her undergraduate work in Human Nutrition Vitamin and Mineral Metabolism. 

Mark Sisson is the founder of the popular daily health blog, Mark’s Daily Apple, godfather to the Primal food and lifestyle movement, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet. His latest book is Keto for Life, where he discusses how he combines the keto diet with a Primal lifestyle for optimal health and longevity. Mark is the author of numerous other books as well, including The Primal Blueprint.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Comvita.

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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Mark Sisson

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Food should be a tool for helping us feel our best. But most people don’t realize what kind of impact many of the foods they eat are having on their blood sugar—and subsequently their entire body. The symptoms of blood sugar imbalances are everyday occurrences for most people. Feeling hungry even when you just ate, craving sweets, and dealing with acne, hormonal imbalances, and signs of aging, like wrinkles, are just a few of the many symptoms of blood sugar swings. When these continue to go unchecked, more severe dysfunctions can occur, like type 2 diabetes, infertility, fatty liver disease, and dementia. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Ben Bikman, Dhru Purohit, and Dr. Ronesh Sinha about how common dietary patterns like eating simple carbs throughout the day create constant insulin spikes leading to insulin resistance, which in turn contributes to many diseases and aging.

Dr. Ben Bikman is a renowned metabolic research scientist and a popular speaker on human metabolism and nutrition. Backed by years of research, Dr. Bikman’s mission is to help the world appreciate the prevalence and relevance of insulin resistance. He is the author of the book Why We Get Sick, which offers a thought-provoking yet real solution to insulin resistance and reversing prediabetes, improving brain function, shedding fat, and preventing diabetes.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. Ronesh Sinha, author of The South Asian Health Solution, is an internal medicine physician who runs a lifestyle clinic in Silicon Valley focused on reversing insulin resistance in ethnically diverse patients. He is also an expert in corporate wellness and serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Silicon Valley Employer Forum, where he serves as a global advisor to shape health benefits for over 55 major Silicon Valley companies.

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Dhru Purohit

Dr. Ronesh Sinha

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Many people think of metabolism as one specific system in the body, when in fact it’s the sum of many different processes that are serving other vital roles for us as well. Our bodies are not closed systems, so our environment, social networks, diet, hormones, microbiome, genetics, and more, all influence how well our metabolism works, or how well we can extract energy from our food. I’m so happy to sit down with my good friend Dr. William Li to talk about what metabolism really means, why the old way of thinking about metabolism hasn’t helped us, and how to make positive impacts on our metabolism at any age.

Dr. William Li is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease - The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Shifting away from the idea that eating less and exercising more is the key to weight loss (4:51 / 2:12) 
• How calories affect metabolism (13:14 / 11:25)  
• Research measuring the four phases of metabolism as we age (16:07 / 13:36) 
• What is metabolism? (24:03 / 21:26) 
• Common myths about metabolism (28:35 / 24:37) 
• Supporting the gut microbiome to raise metabolism and promote health (36:18 / 32:03) 
• Foods that mimic caloric restriction (40:27 / 36:10) 
• Our body’s ability to reverse disease (52:59 / 46:21) 
• Reducing stress in a doomscrolling society (54:07 / 49:30) 
• How to restore health to your metabolism (56:03/ 51:56) 

Mentioned in this episode

Perspective: Obesity—an unexplained epidemic

Competing paradigms of obesity pathogenesis: energy balance versus carbohydrate-insulin models

Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

Get a copy of Dr. Li’s book, Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself, here and check out his Masterclass with Dr. William Li here.

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Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering personal questions my team put together from the “Let’s Get Closer” card deck. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to give you a peek into my personal life as I answer questions about my greatest struggles, what I’m addicted to, the best advice I’ve received, and much more. 

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Comvita.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The last time I asked for help (5:20 / 2:12)
• A time when I felt the most alive (7:04 / 4:45) 
• The way I like to be comforted when I’m sad or upset (12:00 / 9:38) 
• What I am addicted to (14:08 / 11:47) 
• What I miss about being a kid (21:42 / 18:03)
• Characteristics I most admire in others (25:06 / 21:26) 
• The greatest struggles I’ve overcome (25:50 / 22:10) 
• The best advice I’ve received (27:57 / 24:18) 
• My biggest fear (30:34 / 26:54)
• My definition of success (33:14 / 29:37) 
• The most miraculous thing I’ve experienced (34:55 / 31:17)
• Something I can’t explain (40:55 / 37:15) 
• How I’d like to be remembered (46:28 / 42:50) 

Mentioned in this episode:

Let’s Get Closer by Intelligent Change

Inner.U

How to Conquer Your Mind to Live Your Best Life with Colin O’Brady

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra

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Our gut is a powerful control center, due to its bidirectional communication with the brain, which we call the gut-brain axis. This links the emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with intestinal function. Certain conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), are tied to imbalances in the gut-brain axis and can benefit from taking a systems approach in healing, which includes looking at diet, the microbiome, stress management, and more.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Todd LePine, Dr. Emeran Mayer, and Dr. George Papanicolaou about various root causes of irritable bowel syndrome, including microbiome imbalance, parasites, and stress.

Dr. Todd 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. Emeran Mayer is the author of The Gut-Immune Connection as well as The Mind-Gut Connection. He has studied brain-body interactions for the last 40 years, is the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and is the founding director of the UCLA Brain Gut Microbiome Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for the past 25 years, and he is considered a pioneer and world leader in the area of brain-gut microbiome interactions and its clinical implications.⁣

Dr. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine practitioner. He worked on the Navajo reservation for four years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility, where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health, a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

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Dr. Emeran Mayer

Dr. George Papanicolaou

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The topic of veganism is hotly debated in terms of health and environmental stewardship. But how did the idea that being vegan is the best way to eat for our bodies and the planet develop in the first place? The answer is more complex than you might think. On this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Jayne Buxton challenges the notion that veganism is the cure for disease and climate change and explains how we got here. 

A British-Canadian, Jayne Buxton is an author of both fiction and non-fiction. She spent fifteen years doing research-intensive work as a management consultant for a major firm before writing her 1998 book, Ending the Mother War: Starting the Workplace Revolution, which explored the entrenched positions and false choices faced by women wanting to combine motherhood with careers. Jayne subsequently spent years working in the field of work-life balance, advising both parents and corporations, before turning to writing full time. Her new book, The Great Plant-Based Con, challenges the dominant narrative about the vegan diet and proposes a compelling new perspective.

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Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The origins of the overarching mythology that veganism is best for human, animal, and planetary health (5:04 / 2:24) 
• How Big Food, Big Agriculture, and Big Pharma benefit from widespread veganism (7:17 / 4:50) 
• Why the movie The Game Changers was a tipping point for Jayne to write her book (10:58 / 8:13) 
• Countries that have banned vegan diets for children (14:55 / 12:07) 
• My experience treating vegan patients (19:01 / 16:07) 
• Frequent health issues that occur from vegan diets (22:50 / 18:08) 
• Navigating the science, and subsequent dietary recommendations, around vegan diets and eating meat (29:54 / 25:27) 
• Building soil health through regenerative agriculture (51:05 / 45:35)
• Pervasive myths around cows and methane production (55:05 / 50:40) 
• Jayne’s recommendations for how to eat for optimal human, animal, and planetary health (1:03:53 / 59:38)

Learn more about Jayne Buxton and her work at thegreatplantbasedcon.com and get her book, The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet, here.

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Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the video app HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss back inflammation, intermittent fasting, treating type 2 diabetes with diet, and much more. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Levels, and Pendulum.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

By leveraging biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGM), Levels provides real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Learn more about Levels by going to levels.link/HYMAN.

Pendulum is the first company to figure out how to harness the amazing benefits of Akkermansia in a probiotic capsule. To receive 20% off your first purchase of Pendulum’s Akkermansia probiotic supplement, go to Pendulumlife.com and use code MARK20.

In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• My recent back injury (4:46 / 1:07) 
• Back inflammation and nerve impingement (10:58 / 7:37)
• Intermittent fasting (12:08 / 8:45) 
• Treating type 2 diabetes with diet (26:17 / 21:25) 
• Healing cystic acne from the inside out (32:43 / 27:55) 
• Changing the food paradigm (37:57 / 32:49) 

Follow me on HiHo here!

Mentioned in this episode:

Calorie Restriction with or without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss

The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity: Beyond ‘Calories In, Calories Out’

The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: a Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic

Perspective: Obesity—an unexplained epidemic

Food Fix

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Every day, 80 million Americans are dealing with some form of autoimmune disease, including Hashimoto’s. Hashimoto’s is the leading cause of hypothyroidism (i.e., an underactive thyroid) in the US, and roughly 14 million people are struggling with this diagnosis. The conventional approach to treating it is based almost entirely on suppressing symptoms with drugs. However, with a Functional Medicine approach, there are so many other steps for treating the thyroid.

I talk with Dr. George Papanicolaou, Dr. Elizabeth Boham, and Dhru Purohit about why thorough testing is necessary for identifying Hashimoto’s and how lifestyle changes, such as removing gluten, could help to treat this condition.

Dr. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for four years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility, where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

Dr. 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.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. George Papanicolaou

Dr. Elizabeth Boham

Dhru Purohit

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Several months ago, I took thirty days to be by myself in a secluded Vermont cabin. I had no phone, no podcasts, no music, no TV, no work, and no company—it was just me and my thoughts. And I can’t tell you how refreshed, recharged, and centered I felt after that trip. It can be incredibly hard spending time alone with your inner self, but it’s always rewarding. That’s what today’s conversation with my good friend Colin O’Brady is all about. Colin is a ten-time world record breaking explorer, New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, and expert on mindset.

He is focused on sharing his hard-won wisdom to encourage others to step outside of their comfort zone and unlock their best lives. Colin’s highly publicized expeditions have been seen by millions and his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Tonight Show, BBC, Forbes, and Today. His world-renowned feats include the world’s first solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered crossing of Antarctica, speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and the Seven Summits, as well as the first human-powered row across Drake Passage. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 100 companies like Nike, Google, and Amazon and top Universities including UPenn, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Colin’s solo crossing of Antarctica (7:44 / 3:27)  
• The personalized nutrition food bars Colin ate on his expedition (9:37 / 6:55) 
• The advice Colin’s wife gave him on the first day of his Antarctica crossing (18:51 / 15:51) 
• How Colin broke out of a period of anxiety and depression (27:24 / 23:53) 
• Conquering your own mind (31:18 / 27:14)
• The experience that led me to become a doctor (41:34 / 37:18)
• Facing the feeling of not having enough time (43:50 / 39:31) 
• What Colin fears more than dying (47:35 / 43:22) 
• Becoming unstuck from the zone of comfortable complacency (49:10 / 46:54)
• The severe burn injury that served as a major turning point in Colin’s life (54:59 / 52:00) 

Learn more about Colin at colinobrady.com and get a copy of his new book, The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life, here. Get a copy of Colin’s book, The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice―Crossing Antarctica Alone, here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear Part II of a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on treating and preventing osteoporosis with Dr. Elizabeth Board. 

Want to hear the full episode? Subscribe now. With your 7 day free trial to Apple Podcast, you’ll gain access to audio versions of:

- Ad-Free Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast episodes

- Exclusive monthly Functional Medicine Deep Dives

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Trying to decide if the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast is right for you?  Email my team at plus@drhyman.com with any questions you have.  

Please note, Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast does not include access to the Dr. Hyman+ site and only includes Dr. Hyman+ in audio content.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and Vuori.

Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the video app HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss a variety of topics including hair loss, supporting your liver, food and pet allergies, and so much more. Find the link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and Vuori.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Hair loss and your diet (4:07 / 00:57)
• The best way to support the liver (8:51 / 5:42) 
• Heal alopecia areata by eliminating gluten (19:21 / 14:37) 
• Staying healthy while working long shifts (21:16 /  16:32) 
• The root cause of allergies (26:15 / 21:26) 
• Choosing the right type of fasting for you (32:23 / 27:38) 
• What’s the deal with cheese? (34:37 / 29:48) 
• Healing dry skin from the inside out (39:00 / 34:17) 
• Medication for high blood pressure (41:12 / 36:22) 

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Mentioned in this episode:

This American Life: As the Worm Turns

Betty Body with Dr. Stephanie Estima

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Osteoporosis is very common, especially as we age, but it doesn’t have to be the life-threatening risk that currently it is. We’ve been led to believe that getting enough calcium is the key to healthy bones. In truth, your bone health is determined by your diet, gut health and nutrient absorption, physical activity levels, muscle mass, and more.

I talk with Dr. Todd LePine, Dr. David Ludwig, and Dhru Purohit about the myths surrounding bone health and why it’s important to take steps to strengthen your bones at every age.

Dr. Todd 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. 

David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, is an endocrinologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital. He holds the rank of Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ludwig is codirector of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center and founder of the Optimal Weight for Life program, one of the country’s oldest and largest clinics for the care of overweight children. For more than 25 years, Dr. Ludwig has studied the effects of dietary composition on metabolism, body weight, and risk for chronic disease. Described as an “obesity warrior” by Time Magazine, Dr. Ludwig has fought for fundamental policy changes to improve the food environment.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Todd LePine

Dr. David Ludwig

Dhru Purohit

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The common medical approach to psychiatric disorders is to treat the symptoms. But the truth is that we just don’t know how the biological, psychological, and social risk factors and symptoms of these problems fit together. We don’t know what the underlying pathology is. I was excited to talk to Dr. Christopher Palmer who is disrupting the paradigm of psychiatry, about new ways of treating psychiatric disorders, specifically with the ketogenic diet and mitochondrial repair. 

Dr. Palmer is a psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. He is the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For over 25 years, he has held leadership roles in psychiatric education, conducted research, and worked with people who have treatment-resistant mental illnesses. He has been pioneering the use of the medical ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric disorders—conducting research, treating patients, writing, and speaking around the world on this topic. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why mental illness happens and is so hard to treat (6:33 / 3:51) 
• The patient who changed the way Dr. Palmer treats mental illness (11:06 / 8:08) 
• The ketogenic diet as a treatment for epilepsy, seizure disorders, and mental health disorders (17:03 / 14:09) 
• Getting to the root cause of inflammation in the brain (20:16 / 17:26) 
• Viewing mental disorders as metabolic disorders of the brain (27:37 / 23:20)
• Mitochondrial energy deficits in children with autism (34:28 / 30:03) 
• Improve mitochondrial function (35:14 / 31:20) 
• Addressing inflammation in the body (42:16 / 38:00) 
• Validating a multifaceted approach to treating mental health disorders (47:55 / 44:39) 
• Dr. Palmer’s experience treating a child with ADHD (57:23 / 52:52) 
• Children with high levels of insulin resistance and associated risk for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression (59:05 / 54:42) 

Referenced in this episode: Before & after handwriting from Dr. Hyman’s patient

Learn more about Dr. Palmer here. Get his book, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More, here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. 

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode.

Want to hear the full episode? Subscribe now. With your 7 day free trial to Apple Podcast, you’ll gain access to audio versions of:

- Ad-Free Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast episodes

- Exclusive monthly Functional Medicine Deep Dives

- Monthly Ask Mark Anything Episodes 

- Bonus audio content exclusive to Dr. Hyman+

Trying to decide if the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast is right for you?  Email my team at plus@drhyman.com with any questions you have.  

Please note, Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast does not include access to the Dr. Hyman+ site and only includes Dr. Hyman+ in audio content. 

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and InsideTracker.

Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the video app HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit to discuss the role of the gut microbiome in OCD, my approach to treating Lyme disease, the best ways to detox, and much more. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• OCD and its connection to the gut (3:24 / 00:52) 
• Treating persistent Lyme disease (12:02 / 9:38) 
• Addressing ringing in the ear, or tinnitus (25:46 / 23:18) 
• Ways to detox the body (27:55 / 25:28) 
• The whole body approach to treating lupus (33:47 / 31:21)

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Mentioned in this episode:

Gut Food

IFM Find a Functional Medicine Practitioner

Find a Trained Ozone Therapy Practitioner

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

If there was something you could do every day 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 meditation is a foundational pillar to good health. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Daniel Goleman, Emily Fletcher, and Dr. Joe Dispenza about how meditation changes lives by reducing stress, creating resilience, and improving emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman is best known for his worldwide bestseller Emotional Intelligence and most recently coauthored the book Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. Goleman has been ranked among the 25 most influential business leaders by several business publications including Time and the Wall Street Journal. Apart from his writing on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, eco-literacy, and the ecological crisis.

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva, the creator of The Ziva Technique, and a leading expert in meditation for high performers. She is also the author of Stress Less, Accomplish More.

Dr. Joe Dispenza’s passion can be found at the intersection of the latest findings from the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics to explore the science behind spontaneous remissions. He uses that knowledge to teach people how to heal their bodies of health conditions, make significant changes in their lives, and evolve their consciousness. Since 2010, he has partnered with scientists and universities to perform extensive research on the effects that meditation has on the brain and body. He and his team have also studied gene expression, protein regulation, immune response, neurotransmitter changes, telomere length, and variations in bioactive cellular metabolic particles in novice and advanced meditators.

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

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Daniel Goleman

Emily Fletcher

Dr. Joe Dispenza

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Rupa Health, and Pendulum.

What’s the point in living a long time? Being fully in contribution to life. I want to do that feeling healthy and vital, not sick and decrepit. Everything we do speaks to our genes—the food we eat, our relationships, our environment. You’re either telling your genes to age faster or age slower. So I’m constantly working on how to give my genes the right information to do the latter. 

Today’s podcast episode was recorded on my recent trip to Antarctica with my own doctor, Dr. Matt Cook. He’s helped me heal and has integrated so many different forms of technologies and science to rebuild people’s health from the ground up. Dr. Cook is the Founder of BioReset® Medical. He is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience practicing medicine, focusing the last 14 years on Functional and Regenerative Medicine. He graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine, completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and completed a fellowship in Functional Medicine. 

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Rupa Health, and Pendulum.

BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough formula contains seven different forms of magnesium, all of which have different functions in the body. There is truly nothing like it on the market. Go to magbreakthrough.com/hyman and use code hyman10 at checkout for 10% off your next order.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Pendulum is the first company to figure out how to harness the amazing benefits of Akkermansia in a probiotic capsule. To receive 20% off your first purchase of Pendulum’s Akkermansia probiotic supplement, go to Pendulumlife.com and use code MARK20.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• What’s the point of living a long life? (5:38 / 2:23) 
• What I learned from my travel through the Blue Zones (6:36 / 3:25)
• Five converging trends that will change our thinking about medicine and health (13:33 / 10:16)
• The root causes of aging (18:16 / 15:02)
• Influence your genes to reverse your biological age (22:29 / 17:42) 
• How to eat to extend your life span (28:40 / 24:01) 
• Practices and supplements to support healthy aging (35:51 / 31:23) 
• Regenerative medicine therapies and protocols (48:12 / 42:13) 
• What the Yamanaka factors teach us about aging (1:13:12 / 1:08:31) 
• Reimaging how we deal with trauma (1:21:21 / 1:16:49) 

Learn more about Dr. Matt Cook and his work at BioReset Medical at bioresetmedical.com.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the video app HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss how to reduce your biological age, what to do if you have a low sex drive, the Functional Medicine approach to treating osteoporosis, and much more. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Thrive Market is an online membership-based grocery store that makes eating well convenient and more affordable. Join today at thrivemarket.com/hyman to receive an extra $80 of free groceries with your first order.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• What do high homocysteine levels mean? (3:44 / 00:52) 
• Tips to reduce our biological age (17:23 / 13:42) 
• The connection between grip strength, muscle loss, and aging (23:15 / 18:46) 
• Causes of low sex drive and how to correct them (28:19 / 23:42) 
• The root cause and treatment for PCOS (32:44 / 28:04) 
• The Functional Medicine approach to osteoporosis and increasing bone density (37:47 / 33:42) 

Follow me on HiHo here!

Mentioned in this episode:

True Diagnostics

Nordic Labs

Why Muscle Is the Key to Longevity with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Are We Eating Too Much (Or Not Enough) Protein for Good Health with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and InsideTracker.

This myth is pervasive throughout medicine: if you know the name of your disease, you know what’s wrong with you. In truth, diagnoses are just names we associate with a collection of symptoms. They tell us nothing about why someone has those symptoms—the root causes of the “disease.” Functional Medicine seeks to dig deeper to look for the root cause of symptoms.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham, Dr. Todd LePine, and Dr. George Papanicolaou about how patients miss out on true healing when the root cause of their symptoms is not addressed.

Dr. 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. Todd 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. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He calls his philosophy “Whole Life Wellness.” Over time, as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care, Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health, a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and InsideTracker.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Elizabeth Boham

Dr. Todd LePine

Dr. George Papanicolaou

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Near-death experiences aren’t that uncommon for the world’s most technical mountaineers. Summiting Mt. Everest is sure to leave anyone feeling truly awe-inspired. Completing the climb and getting home safely after nearly dying creates a whole different level of reflection. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to Hakan Bulgurlu about turning his near-death experience into a force for positive change in his personal life, the climate crisis, business leadership, and more. 

Hakan is a global business leader and a climate activist. As the CEO of Arçelik, a home appliances manufacturer that operates in 150 countries, he is a thought leader on sustainable and purpose-driven business. In a bid to raise awareness of the climate crisis, Hakan climbed Everest in 2019. He wrote A Mountain to Climb; a retelling of his journey to Everest, accompanied by his research into the possible solutions to the climate crisis.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• How Hakan’s preparation for climbing Mt. Everest led to business solutions to the climate crisis (6:26 / 3:45) 
• Hakan’s “aha” moment that shifted his approach to business (11:25 / 8:42) 
• A profitable business solution to the issue of microplastics in the oceans (13:50 / 11:43) 
• The two types of CEOs (20:09 / 17:35) 
• Improving the energy efficiency of refrigerators (20:50 / 18:10) 
• Hakan’s early influential life experiences (26:27 / 22:07) 
• Hakan’s Mt. Everest climb, his near-death experiences, and how they affected him (29:20 / 24:55) 
• Building the price of climate issues into the market cost (41:22 / 35:14)  
• Humans’ relationship to nature (48:49 / 44:08) 
• Responding to our depression about the state of the climate (50:55 / / 46:20) 

Get your copy of Hakan’s book, A Mountain to Climb: The Climate Crisis: A Summit Beyond Everest, here.

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I’m willing to bet all of us would feel a whole lot better about aging if it didn’t actually mean feeling old. Well, I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to; aging can mean another year of joy, adventure, and spending time with people we love—all while feeling great. 

Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to answer a question submitted by my community through the video app HiHo about the benefits of hot and cold therapy. We also discuss why adequate protein is vital as we age and how to turn on longevity switches in our bodies to live a longer, healthier life. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Levels, and HigherDOSE.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The best way to do hot and cold therapy (4:13 / 00:48) 
• My tips for hot and cold therapy while traveling (18:44 / 15:10) 
• Integrating hot and cold therapy with exercise (19:48 / 16:18) 
• The importance of adequate protein for strength training and healthy muscles as we age (30:14 / 25:00) 
• Activating the mTOR longevity switch in the body (37:30 / 32:34)
• Using metformin or other drugs to hack longevity (48:37 / 43:20) 

Follow me on HiHo here!

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This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Athletic Greens, and Rupa Health.

We are living in a time unlike any before. For multiple reasons, we are now unable to get optimal amounts of all of the nutrients we need to function the way we were designed to. That’s why we need to turn to certain supplements to combat the nutritional deficiencies—like vitamin D, magnesium, omega 3 fatty acids, and more—the majority of us are faced with. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dhru Purohit, Dr. Elizabeth Boham, and Dr. James DiNicolantonio about why our modern diet and lifestyle are leaving us nutritionally deficient, the benefits of supplementation, and the importance of adequate magnesium levels.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. 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. DiNicolantonio is a Doctor of Pharmacy and a cardiovascular research scientist. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and an expert on health and nutrition, he has contributed extensively to health policy and has testified in front of the Canadian Senate regarding the harms of added sugars. He serves as the associate editor of the British Medical Journal’s Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society, and is on the editorial advisory boards of several other medical journals. Dr. DiNicolantonio is the author or coauthor of over 250 publications in the medical literature. He is also the author of five bestselling health books: The Salt Fix, Superfuel, The Longevity Solution, The Immunity Fix, and The Mineral Fix.

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Relationships can feel complicated. We often go into them looking for others to fulfill whatever we refuse to give ourselves. We want our unmet needs to be met by this other person, without doing the inner work to help ourselves. Owning our needs actually makes it easier for other people to meet our needs. This sounds counterintuitive, but it’s one of those breakthroughs that can really turn toxic relationship patterns around. 

Today I’m excited to share a conversation with my good friend Angelika Alana, all about tuning into our bodies, our physical and emotional needs, and healing our connection to ourselves and others. Angelika is the founder and CEO of the Somatic Healing Institute. She has been featured in Vanity Fair, Well+Good, and Modern Luxury. She certifies coaches and facilitators in her transformational body-based healing method. She has traveled and studied extensively in Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, and the UK, and is a massive foodie with her husband Patrick Drake, co-founder of Hello Fresh.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Angelika’s journey into somatic and sexual healing work (6:38 / 2:47) 
• Getting out of your head and into your body (10:59 / 7:20) 
• Creating space from our emotions to safely integrate pain (16:43 / 12:06) 
• How to locate your wounds (21:15 / 17:10) 
• Client stories from Angelika’s work (24:41 / 19:28) 
• What happens in a typical somatic healing session? (34:12 / 28:59) 
• Moving out of a toxic relationship framework (38:24 / 33:12) 
• How to know if you’re in a toxic relationship or a healing relationship (42:29 / 37:12) 
• Learning new skills to succeed in sex and relationships (49:32 / 42:32) 
• Holding more complexity with care (54:02 / 49:03) 

Learn more about Angelika’s work at angelikaalana.com. Access her Somatic Self Care, Level 1 Training here, information about her upcoming retreat here, and a free guided somatic mindfulness practice here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on treating and preventing osteoporosis with Dr. Elizabeth Board. 

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Our gut, and the tons of bacteria that reside within it, regulates many of our bodily functions, from creating vitamins to controlling our immune system, our brain function, and, of course, our metabolism and weight. The gut is the number-one place to investigate when healing the body of any chronic symptoms or diseases. If your gut isn’t healthy, you’re not healthy!

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about why prebiotics are vital in creating a healthy gut. These are the things your good gut bugs love to munch on. In turn, they produce beneficial compounds such as short-chain fatty acids, which have been shown to help prevent things like colon cancer. 

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why is gut health so crucial? (6:07 / 1:46)
• Resistant starch (9:48 / 5:33)
• How and why to increase short-chain fatty acids (13:56 / 9:42)
• The many benefits of acacia fiber (16:19 / 11:58)
• Galactooligosaccharides for gut health (18:22 / 14:00)
• Probiotics, prebiotics, and polyphenols in my meals (21:44 / 16:00)
• One prebiotic food that everyone should consider eating (24:39 / 19:00)
• Questions from my community (27:27 / 21:42)

Podcasts, Products, & Research Mentioned

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. This podcast is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. You should always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal, or homeopathic supplement, or adopting any treatment for a health problem. The use of Gut Food or any other products or services purchased by you as a result of this podcast does not create a doctor-patient relationship between you and any of the physicians affiliated with this podcast. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Have you ever wondered what the worst candy or cereal for your blood sugar is, or what the best thing to order at your favorite restaurant might be? Thanks to continuous glucose monitors, this is knowledge we’ll all be able to take advantage of in the near future. With insulin resistance playing a key role in the majority of the chronic diseases of our time, monitoring how our blood sugar responds to different foods is a huge step towards health.

In today's episode, I talk with Dr. Casey Means, Jessie Inchauspé, and Dhru Purohit about the best and the worst foods to eat for glucose management, as well as tips and tricks for combining food for optimal blood sugar balance.

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Cofounder of the metabolic health company Levels, an associate editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a guest lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate a deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices.  

Jessie holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King's College London and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University. Her work at a genetic analysis start-up in Silicon Valley made her realize that, as the key to good health, food habits beat genetics. In her first book, Glucose Revolution, Jessie shares her startling discovery about the essential role of blood sugar in every aspect of our lives, from cravings to fertility, and the surprising hacks to optimize it while still eating the foods we love.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Vuori, and Paleovalley.

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This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, and Rupa Health.

Many of us are feeling a crisis of meaning; feeling we’ve lost our way amongst the stressors and distractions of modern life. We are more isolated, divided, and sick than ever before. Personally, I always turn to nature when I’m feeling lost. And in traveling, talking to interesting people, and learning about the world, I’ve found that ancient cultures and their relationships to nature can teach us volumes when it comes to rediscovering connection, health, and meaning. 

Today, I’m excited to share a conversation I had with Wade Davis, all about culture, the depth of the natural world, belief systems, ethnobotany, psychedelics, and more. Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, and he was the winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language. His latest book is Magdalena: River of Dreams. Wade’s many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Wade’s early experiences that first got him interested in anthropology (5:56 / 3:24)
• Why western culture is actually an anomaly, not the norm (7:57 / 5:23)
• Our misguided understanding of the purpose of culture (18:00 / 15:50) 
• Why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world (20:40 / 18:57) 
• The nature of life (22:48 / 20:50)
• Human commonalities among all cultural expressions (27:30 / 23:08)
• The value of language and storytelling (29:36 / 24:28) 
• Why biologically, the concept of race is utter fiction (31:27 / 27:06)  
• Psychedelics and our relationship to nature and plant medicines (37:27 / 33:20) 
• Communicating with plants (1:01:22 / 39:35) 

Learn more about Wade Davis at daviswade.com.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. 

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode.

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Probiotics are critical to protecting and rebuilding the gut. They compete with bad gut bugs and yeast, modulate intestinal function, and are essential to changing and improving immune function. They are also anti-inflammatory, they help us break down food, and they build nutrients. In this episode of my Masterclass series, the second in a series on gut health, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about how probiotics work in the gut, the best fermented foods to eat, and much more.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and InsideTracker.

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Check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why we need probiotics (5:32 / 1:52)
• Top insults to our gut (7:04 /  3:25)
• Evaluating store-bought probiotics, including kombucha (8:08 / 4:26)
• What probiotics do (10:06 / 6:28) 
• Different strains for different symptoms (14:43 / 10:50) 
• The top fermented foods (18:34 / 14:46)
• Bacteria in the gut and your immune system (24:05 / 18:51)
• Who shouldn’t eat fermented foods (26:25 / 20:18)
• Steps to shape up our guts (28:48 / 23:46) 
• The downside of antibiotics and supporting the gut (34:15 / 28:57)

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. This podcast is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. You should always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal, or homeopathic supplement, or adopting any treatment for a health problem. The use of Gut Food or any other products or services purchased by you as a result of this podcast does not create a doctor-patient relationship between you and any of the physicians affiliated with this podcast. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world, and it is often thought of as a cholesterol problem. When you take a closer look, however, there are other factors that drive this chronic disease that can’t be fixed by the most commonly prescribed medication: statin drugs. The way you eat, how much you exercise, how you manage stress, and more all contribute to heart disease.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Dr. Stanley Hazen, and Dr. Cindy Geyer about why heart disease is easier to prevent than to reverse, why statins are not the answer in most cases, and how the gut microbiome is connected to heart health.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is an NHS-trained consultant, cardiologist, and visiting professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Brazil. He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK and in 2018 was ranked by software company Onalytica as the number-one doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking. He is the author of, The Pioppi Diet, coauthored with Donal O'Neill, The 21-Day Immunity Plan, and, A Statin-Free Life.

Dr. Stanley Hazen is both the chair of the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the Lerner Research Institute and section head of Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation at the Heart and Vascular Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. He’s published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and has over 50 patents from his pioneering discoveries in atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease. Dr. Hazen made the seminal discovery linking microbial pathways to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Cindy Geyer received her Bachelor of Science and her Doctor of Medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She joined The Ultrawellness Center in 2021 after practicing and serving as the medical director at Canyon Ranch for 23 years.

This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, ButcherBox, and Paleovalley.

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As humans, we’re natural storytellers. We like telling our friends the funny thing that happened at work, but we’re also really good at making up stories about things that happen in life and applying them to our identity and worldview. We can start believing these stories all too easily. But, they’re actually just stories! And we have a choice about what we believe and how we create our reality. 

I’m so excited to share this conversation I recently had with my good friend Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, all about cultivating greater health and happiness by breaking down the barriers we’ve put up in our own minds.  Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK. Host of the #1 Apple podcast, Feel Better, Live More, and presenter of BBC 1’s Doctor in the House, Dr. Chatterjee is the author of 5 Sunday Times bestselling books and his TED Talk, “How to Make Diseases Disappear,” has now been viewed over 4.8 million times. His newest book is Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being.

This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and Beekeeper’s Natural.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The three pillars of core happiness (7:35 / 3:13)
• What we can learn from Holocaust survivors about happiness (10:58 / 7:06) 
• Using moments of social friction to your own benefit (14:42 / 11:00) 
• How happiness affects our health (20:28 / 16:22) 
• The connection between illness and forgiveness (29:28 / 23:50) 
• How your brain reacts when you’re triggered (34:29 / 29:14)
• Training your brain for happiness (36:12 / 30:16) 
• Dr. Chatterjee’s morning routine (42:58 / 37:19) 
• How your inner voice is affecting your happiness and health (46:20 / 41:32) 
• Toxic positivity and happiness in the midst of grief and loss (1:02:59 / 57:22) 

Get a copy of Dr. Chatterjee’s new book, Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being, here.

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The gut microbiome plays a role in every disease, so why aren’t we doing more to protect and restore it? One third to one half of all Americans have gut issues due to the constant consumption of industrialized foods, glyphosate, food additives, and more. This is a problem—and it’s time for us to take action.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, the first in a series on gut health, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the importance of polyphenols for our gut health. We also discuss my gut-health journey, which led me to dig deep into understanding the value of a healthy gut and diverse microbiome, and how to get there.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The number-one thing that causes gut issues (3:57 / 1:28)
• Why are we in this mess? (5:08 / 2:37)
• My gut-health journey (12:29 / 9:43)
• What the research shows us about polyphenols (18:50 / 15:45)
• Compounds and phytochemicals in food that act like medicine (28:14 / 23:44)
• Two things that change a microbiome for the better (35:06 / 30:31)
• The best foods to incorporate into our diets (39:57 / 35:18)
• Zonulin and how it contributes to a leaky gut (51:11 / 45:55)
• Prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols found in Gut Food (1:02:38 / 57:58)
• The importance of powerful polyphenols (1:12:25 / 1:06:42)

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Skin problems like acne, psoriasis, and eczema are often treated with over-the-counter lotions, creams, and potions or even with antibiotics. But while these options may reduce symptoms temporarily, they don't get to the root cause of the problem. In Functional Medicine, we dig deep to determine the underlying cause of skin issues, which often originate in the gut—treat the gut, and the skin clears up.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham, Dhru Purohit, and Dr. Todd LePine about the pathophysiology of acne, why diet matters for skin health, and how gut health is related to skin health.

Dr. 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.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

Dr. Todd 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 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 enjoys skiing, kayaking, hiking, camping, and golfing in the beautiful Berkshires and is a fitness enthusiast.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Elizabeth Boham

Masterclass with Dhru Purohit

Dr. Todd LePine

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing episodes from my Longevity Roadmap docu-series. We’ve covered how to optimize hormones, eat intentionally, increase and preserve brain function, and create healthy habits—all to help you live as well as possible for as long as possible. 

Today, we’re going to help you bring it all together. Most diseases of aging are starting younger and younger. So whether you’re in your 20s, 40s, 60s, or beyond, it’s never too late to prevent and even reverse the process we’ve come to call aging. Along with my colleagues Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Todd LePine, we’ll review the key takeaways you can start using right away to optimize your health for your specific phase of life. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• How to optimize health at every age and stage of life (5:20 / 1:44) 
• Supporting your gut health as you age (7:43 / 4:08) 
• The gut microbiome and its impact on cancer risk (12:03 / 8:30) 
• Diagnostic testing to determine where you are on the aging spectrum (16:13 / 12:40) 
• Making your body an unwelcome place for cancer growth (26:40 / 22:40) 
• Assessing thyroid and overall hormone health (29:12 / 24:19) 
• Assessing memory, cognitive function, and overall brain health (33:27 / 28:34)
• The importance of identifying your “why” for achieving optimal health and longevity (40:23 / 35:33) 

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​​What you eat literally controls almost every function of your body and mind. Food connects us to one another and to our bodies. At the same time, what we eat is only one “ingredient” needed to make a healthy human. We need real, whole, fresh food, but we also need things like movement, connection, meaning, and purpose. When you take out the bad stuff and put in the good stuff, you create balance. Your body knows how to create health from those ingredients.

In this episode, I feature an in-depth discussion on the importance of community, mindset, and optimism when it comes to increasing our healthspan from my Longevity Roadmap docu-series. In this series, I am joined by my colleagues at The UltraWellness Center: Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director and Physician; Todd LePine, MD, Physician; and George Papanicolaou, DO, Physician. In this conversation we also delve into the fascinating topic of innovative anti-aging therapies based on the newest longevity research. 

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The commonalities between communities with the longest-lived, healthy people (4:13 / 1:06) 
• The importance of your mindset as it relates to your health and gene expression (11:12 / 8:02) 
• Mobility and health (14:39 / 11:28)
• Exercising for longevity (17:29 / 12:50) 
• Understanding our body’s natural rhythms (18:21 / 15:16)  
• Optimizing sleep (22:13 / 16:57)
• Emerging therapies for health and longevity (27:04 / 22:16)
• Keeping our mitochondria young (36:53 / 31:37) 
• How small stressors to our body can be good for us (40:01 / 34:54) 
• The foundational pillars of health (43:49 / 38:33)

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Experiencing feelings of grief is a natural part of the human experience. While it can be difficult to sit with hard feelings such as grief, avoiding our emotions only makes them louder. Through practice, we can learn to accept our feelings in the moment. We can work to break the pattern of being at war with the present moment and let our feelings come and go as needed.  

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Joan Rosenberg, Susan David, and Tara Brach about situations that prompt grief, why facing our emotions is healthier than bottling them up, and how to accept difficult emotions.

Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker, and trainer. A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, and resilience; achieving emotional, conversational, and relationship mastery; integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; and suicide prevention. She is the author of 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity.

Susan David, PhD, is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her book, Emotional Agility, describes the psychological skills critical to thriving in times of complexity and change. Susan’s TED Talk on the topic went viral, with over 1 million views in its first week of release. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal and a frequent guest on national radio and television. Susan is the CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a cofounder of the Institute of Coaching (a Harvard Medical School/McLean affiliate), and on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Thrive Global and Virgin Pulse.

Tara Brach holds a PhD in clinical psychology and teaches meditation internationally. Founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), Tara is the author of the bestsellers Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion, True Refuge, and her latest book, Trusting the Gold. Tara’s weekly podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times each month. 

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AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

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Dr. Joan Rosenberg

Susan David

Tara Brach

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Our bodies are literally made out of the food we eat. So ask yourself, do you want to be a twinkie or a raspberry? Real, whole foods contain information in the form of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, protein, phytonutrients, and fiber. These compounds impact every node of the Functional Medicine matrix, like our vascular and immune systems, detox and energy pathways, microbiome, and everything in between. 

That’s why food is our most powerful tool for getting our healthspan to match our lifespan. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, we’re featuring an episode of The Longevity Roadmap docu-series devoted to using the power of food for optimal health and longevity. I’m joined by my colleagues from The UltraWellness Center, Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Todd LePine.

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The biggest factor controlling your genes (6:01 / 1:08) 
• The origins of the Pegan diet (8:49 / 5:50) 
• What not to eat (11:13 / 8:00)
• What I eat on a typical day (12:27 / 9:18) 
• Why all carbohydrates are not equal (15:52 / 12:41) 
• Determining the right amount of carbohydrates and protein for you (20:13 / 17:40) 
• The elimination diet (26:39 / 21:40) 
• Foods that enhance our stem cells, repair DNA damage, and improve immune system functionality (31:07 / 26:10) 
• Activating your body’s healing mechanisms through stress, or hormesis (34:14 / 29:30) 
• How to eat for health (36:43 / 31:40) 

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Losing our memories and the things that define us is one of the scariest things someone can face. Preserving, supporting, and even strengthening brain function is crucial to optimal aging. This is why, in today’s episode, we explore the underlying cause of brain dysfunction, the fascinating link between your gut and your brain, and steps you can take to keep your brain in tip-top shape. You’ll learn how to prevent cognitive decline and optimize your brain function. 

In this episode, I’ll be featuring an in-depth discussion on brain health from my Longevity Roadmap docu-series. In this series, I am joined by my colleagues at The UltraWellness Center: Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director and Physician; Todd LePine, MD, Physician; and George Papanicolaou, DO, Physician.

To get all of my longevity tips, sign up for my weekly Longevity newsletter at drhyman.com/longevity.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and Vuori.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why scientists are now referring to Alzheimer’s as type 3 diabetes (5:00 / 2:18)  
• Fixing your brain starts with fixing your body (6:41 / 4:00) 
• What’s happening in your brain in your 30s and 40s? (8:06 / 5:20) 
• The first place to start to avoid early cognitive decline (9:32 / 6:50) 
• Assessing and addressing genetic risk factors for neurodegenerative conditions (12:19 / 9:33)
• Supporting memory with lifestyle and diet (16:07 / 11:00) 
• Shifting our thinking on dementia and longevity (21:41 / 17:20) 
• The top things that damage our brains (24:40 / 20:20) 
• Improving brain function with nootropics (29:50 / 25:27) 
• The mind-body connection (35:40 / 31:18)

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Psychedelics have gotten a bad rap. Often associated with the small period of time they became popular in the 1960s, they were researched in clinical, cultural, and spiritual contexts for many decades prior to that. Now we are seeing an uptick in the interest of drugs like this, which include compounds like psilocybin from certain species of mushrooms, for therapeutic uses. Trials are finding amazing effects on anxiety, depression, PTSD, and fear of death by using psychedelics in a responsible and highly controlled environment. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Anthony Bossis, Michael Pollan, and Rameshwar Das about the neurobiology of psychedelics, how they can help to shift mindset, and the story of Ram Dass.

Anthony P. Bossis, PhD, conducts FDA-approved clinical trials in the reemerging field of psychedelic research. He is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, where he investigates the effects of psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in specific species of mushrooms.

Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, How to Change Your Mind, and This Is Your Mind on Plants. 

Rameshwar Das has been navigating a spiritual path for 50 years. Ramesh met Ram Dass in 1968 and spent time with Neem Karoli Baba in India from 1970–72. He learned Vipassana meditation from Goenka in India. Ramesh has worked as an artist, photographer, environmentalist, and writer. He has collaborated on many projects with Ram Dass over the years, including the original Be Here Now and the Love Serve Remember recordings, and he has coauthored three books with Ram Dass: Be Love Now, Polishing the Mirror, and Being Ram Dass.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Anthony Bossis

Michael Pollan

Rameshwar Das

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Hormones are like a symphony, with each one acting as a specialized instrument to keep our bodies in tune. But as we age, those instruments start to get a little rusty. Small changes over time create a variety of imbalances, until one day we wake up realizing we’re flat and out of tune. This leads to things like menopausal symptoms in women, hair loss and belly fat in men, thyroid dysfunction, bone loss, and so much more. 

That’s why it’s never too early, or too late, to start optimizing hormonal balance. Today we’re featuring an episode of the Longevity Roadmap docu-series that takes a deep dive into hormones and how they play a critical role in how well, or poorly, we age. I was joined by two of my colleagues from The UltraWellness Center, Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Todd LePine. 

To get all of my longevity tips, sign up for my weekly Longevity newsletter at drhyman.com/longevity.

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Athletic Greens.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The role of hormones in the body (5:48 / 2:52) 
• The prevalence of hormonal imbalance (7:44 / 4:38)
• The importance of maintaining good muscle mass (9:36 / 5:37) 
• The need for increased amounts of protein as we age (10:47 / 7:40) 
• Nutrients for strong bone density (14:47 / 11:28) 
• Nutrients to support adrenal function, stress hormones, and the thyroid (20:19 / 17:00) 
• Hypothyroidism and accessing thyroid health (21:58 / 18:50) 
• Optimizing health in menopause and andropause (27:02 / 23:44) 
• High estrogen and low testosterone in men (28:42 / 25:33)
• Supporting the body through perimenopause (31:18 / 28:00)

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Cancer is a topic that scares just as many people as it directly impacts, which is nearly everyone. While the conventional medicine approach to treating the disease is very important and lifesaving, Functional Medicine takes a slightly different approach. In Functional Medicine, we look below the surface to identify what imbalance is allowing the cancer to grow. By focusing on the terrain, you can learn how to reduce the risk of weeds like cancer. 

In this episode, I’ll be featuring an in-depth discussion on cancer from my Longevity Roadmap docu-series. In this series, I am joined by my colleagues at The UltraWellness Center: Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director and Physician; Todd LePine, MD, Physician; and George Papanicolaou, DO, Physician.

To get all of my longevity tips, sign up for my weekly Longevity newsletter at drhyman.com/longevity.

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox, Rupa Health, and InsideTracker.

When you sign up today, ButcherBox will send you 2 lbs of sustainably caught, wild Alaskan salmon in your first box for free. To receive this offer, go to ButcherBox.com/farmacy.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they’re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Obesity, gut health, and cancer risk (5:33 / 2:50) 
• Making your body an unwelcome environment for cancer to grow (6:33 / 4:00) 
• Diagnostic testing to get to the root cause of cancer and illness (11:23 / 8:49) 
• How sugar drives cancer growth (17:01 / 15:05) 
• Using the ketogenic diet in cancer treatment (20:24 / 16:00)
• The benefits of fasting (23:55 / 18:44)  
• Reducing inflammation and cancer risk with diet and supplements (28:12 / 23:25) 
• Lowering your cancer risk through lifestyle and environment (32:30 / 28:10) 
• Addressing toxin exposures (33:49 /  29:24)
• Getting to the root cause of illness (36:16 / 31:36)

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Our current food system is not working. Food waste is at an all-time high, food deserts exist in many neighborhoods, and our produce is falling short in flavor and nutrients. The good news is that innovators in various fields are implementing ideas that promote better access to fresh, nutritious, and tastier food for everyone.

In today’s episode, I talk with Kavita Shukla, Tobias Peggs, and Dan Barber about a creative way to reduce food waste, growing the number of farmers in urban areas, and ideas to improve the flavor and nutrition profile of produce.

Kavita Shukla is the founder and CEO of The FRESHGLOW Co. and the inventor of FreshPaper, a simple innovation taking on the massive global challenge of food waste by keeping food fresher longer. FreshPaper is used by farmers and families across the globe, and The FRESHGLOW Co. has partnered with some of the largest retailers in the world, from Whole Foods to Walmart, so that people everywhere can take advantage of this incredible product and the goodness of real food.

Tobias Peggs is the cofounder and CEO of Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based urban farming company known for changing the way people think about growing local food and training the country’s future generations of farmers. Previously, he led Aviary, a mobile photo-editing company, as its CEO until its acquisition by Adobe and was also CEO at OneRiot, a social media analytics company, since acquired by Walmart. Tobias grew up in England and has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Cardiff University. 

Dan Barber is breaking the conventional ways we eat, cook, and think about food. He is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns and the author of The Third Plate. He also cofounded Row 7 Seed Company, a seed company bringing together chefs and plant breeders in the development of new varieties of vegetables and grains. Dan has received multiple James Beard awards including Best Chef: New York City (2006) and the country's Outstanding Chef (2009). In this episode, it’s clear how mutually passionate Dan and I are about changing the current food system and doing so in a way that promotes health and supports the environment.

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

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Kavita Shukla

Tobias Peggs

Dan Barber

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Insulin resistance is a main driver of cardiovascular disease that we don’t hear enough about. Paying attention to our sugar and starch intake, eating plenty of healthy fats and vegetables, and getting enough exercise can all dramatically improve our insulin sensitivity and reduce our risk of heart disease and other metabolic issues. 

For the next few weeks, I’ll be featuring in-depth episodes from my Longevity Roadmap docu-series. Today, we’re talking all about heart health. Throughout this episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know about preventing and treating cardiovascular disease from a functional perspective, from innovative testing to at-home lifestyle changes. 

To get all of my longevity tips, sign up for my weekly Longevity newsletter at drhyman.com/longevity.

In this series, I am joined by my colleagues at The UltraWellness Center: Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director and Physician; Todd LePine, MD, Physician; and George Papanicolaou, DO, Physician.

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Cozy Earth, and Rupa Health.

BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough formula contains seven different forms of magnesium, all of which have different functions in the body. There is truly nothing like it on the market. Go to magbreakthrough.com/hyman and use code hyman10 at checkout for 10% off your next order.

Cozy Earth makes the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code MARK40.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why cardiovascular disease is not just about heart health (4:44 / 1:35)
• The true role of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease (7:58 / 4:35) 
• What causes inflammation? (12:53 / 9:40) 
• Are statin drugs effective for the prevention of heart disease? (14:28 / 11:21) 
• Habits to prevent heart disease (18:27 / 15:14) 
• The dangers of insulin resistance (20:23 / 17:00) 
• The importance of LDL cholesterol particle size (24:19 / 19:45) 
• What is insulin resistance? (31:47 / 27:18) 
• Markers of inflammation (35:55 / 31:21) 
• Four behaviors that reduce your risk of disease (49:54 / 45:44)

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. 

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode.

Want to hear the full episode? Subscribe now. With your 7 day free trial to Apple Podcast, you’ll gain access to audio versions of:

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Aging shouldn’t be something we dread; it should be something we celebrate. Yet, as a society, we are sicker than ever. We are so fixated on keeping people alive longer, but what about keeping people healthier? This is the difference between healthspan and life span. Your life span is how long you live. Your healthspan is how long you live a healthy, vibrant life. 

I’ve learned so much about this topic over the last few years that my team at The UltraWellness Center and I got together to make a docu-series about the Functional Medicine approach to longevity. Over the next few weeks, I’m excited to share this series with you here. In this episode, we dive into an overview of the seven systems of Functional Medicine and how you can optimize these systems to improve your healthspan.

To get all of my longevity tips, sign up for my weekly Longevity newsletter at drhyman.com/longevity.

In this series, I am joined by my colleagues at The UltraWellness Center: Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director and Physician; Todd LePine, MD, Physician; and George Papanicolaou, DO, Physician.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Pendulum.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The difference between life span and healthspan (6:05 / 2:57) 
• The science of creating health (10:54 / 7:44) 
• The unified theory of aging (14:06 / 10:51) 
• What role does genetics play in aging? (16:19 / 13:00)  
• This determines 90 percent of our health status (18:19 / 15:08) 
• Our body’s seven basic systems (19:01 / 15:22)
• When inflammation leads to rapid aging (24:03 / 19:45) 
• What are zombie cells? (27:44 / 23:12)

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We are living in an epidemic of chronic disease that is destroying our health, our communities, and our economy. The common denominator between all of these things is food, or more specifically, our food system. The way our food is grown, transported, processed, and consumed is making us sick and driving health disparities related to income and race, especially among marginalized groups.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Marcia Chatelain, Dr. Rupa Marya, Raj Patel, and Karen Washington about creating a society that cultivates health, how our existing social structures predispose us to illness, and how we can make great changes to our food system through grassroots efforts. 

Dr. Marcia Chatelain is a professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, she teaches about women’s and girls’ history, as well as black capitalism. Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians, civil rights organizations, communities, and the fast food industry.

Dr. Rupa Marya is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches Internal Medicine. Her research examines the health impacts of social systems, from agriculture to policing. She is a cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. 

Raj Patel is a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, a professor in the university’s department of nutrition, and a research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, and coauthor of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.

Karen Washington is a farmer, activist, and food advocate. She is the co-owner and farmer at Rise & Root Farm in Chester, New York. Karen cofounded Black Urban Growers (BUGS), an organization supporting growers in both urban and rural settings. In 2012, Ebony magazine voted her one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the country, and in 2014 Karen was the recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Marcia Chatelain

Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

Karen Washington

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and HigherDOSE.

Eighty-eight percent of people are metabolically unhealthy, and since the 1920s we’ve shamed them into believing it’s their fault—that they should just eat fewer calories and exercise more. 

But the real culprit is sugar and the processed foods that contain it. The majority of foods on our market shelves contain insane amounts of added sugar and high-fructose corn syrup—ingredients that literally slow down our metabolism and turn on our internal fat storage switch. That means we have the power to turn that switch off by choosing to use food as medicine. Today, I’m excited to talk to Dr. Richard Johnson about how our biological fat storage process works and what we can do to positively affect it. 

Dr. Richard Johnson is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver and has been a practicing physician and clinical scientist for over 25 years. He is internationally recognized for his seminal work on the role of sugar and its component fructose, in obesity and diabetes. His work has also suggested a fundamental role for uric acid (which is generated during fructose metabolism) in metabolic syndrome. He previously authored The Sugar Fix with Timothy Gower in 2008, and The Fat Switch in 2012. His new book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat was just released.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and HigherDOSE.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• What makes sugar so bad? (5:50 / 2:44) 
• How our body’s fat-storage switch works (7:25 / 4:06) 
• Why eating certain foods makes us hungrier (15:07 / 11:58)
• Why eating sugar slows down your metabolism (18:08 / 14:59)  
• Comparing high-fructose corn syrup to table sugar (27:19 / 21:55)
• The physiology of how fructose affects your body’s energy production and weight gain (32:45 / 27:52) 
• The difference between eating a high-carb and low-carb diet, even if calorie intake is the same (42:30 / 36:46) 
• Why mitochondrial function is key to health and longevity (53:35 / 49:27) /
• Supplementing with vitamin C (59:44 / 55:51)  
• Is salt good or bad for us? (1:05:33 / 1:00:46)

Get a copy of Dr. Johnson’s book, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent—and Reverse—It, here.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

In today’s episode, I’ve compiled questions submitted by my social media audience from some of my most popular Masterclass episodes. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss a range of topics related to autoimmune disease, optimizing your sleep, and inflammation. 

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. Check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account a RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The main Functional Medicine approach to treating autoimmune disease (4:15 / 00:43)
• Hashimoto’s disease and thyroid testing (8:59 / 5:59) 
• Is there a connection between autoimmune issues and allergies? (21:01 / 15:58)
• Where to start to heal autoimmune disease (26:32 / 21:30) 
• Top three mistakes people make in dealing with autoimmune disease (28:34 / 23:36) 
• Do you need to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day? (33:44 / 28:43)
• Supplements and sleep aids (40:55 / 35:58)
• Do grains affect inflammation? (43:43 / 38:48) 
• The biggest driver of chronic inflammation (46:11 / 41:20) 
• Can inflammation be driven by genetics? (47:42 / 42:41)

Mentioned in this episode:

How a Doctor Cured Her Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine 

Reversing Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine

The UltraThyroid Solution

Dr. Hyman’s Sleep Master Class

IFM's Find A Practitioner Tool

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

For so long, we’ve been told that memory loss and dementia are just normal parts of aging.

We now know it doesn’t have to be that way, and that there are many measures we can proactively take to avoid cognitive decline as we age. Emerging research is helping us look at new ways to treat and even prevent devastating neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia, giving people a newfound sense of hope.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, Dr. Richard Isaacson, and Dr. Jay Lombard about the role of genetics in brain disorders, lifestyle habits you can start right now to reduce your risk or reverse symptoms, and why we need to look at bacteria as a cause of neurodegenerative disease. 

Dr. Marwan Sabbagh is a board-certified neurologist and considered one of the leading experts in Alzheimer’s and dementia. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and BMC Neurology and is now Editor-in-Chief of Neurology and Therapy. Dr. Sabbagh is the author of The Alzheimer’s Answer: Reduce Your Risk and Keep Your Brain Healthy and The Alzheimer’s Prevention Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Boost Brain Health. His latest book, Fighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, is now available.

Dr. Richard Isaacson serves as Director of the Center for Brain Health and Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic (APC) at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine. He previously served as Director of the APC at the Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program, Assistant Dean of Faculty Development, and Associate Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian. He remains as Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell. 

Dr. Jay Lombard is an internationally acclaimed neurologist, author, and keynote speaker specializing in neuroimmunological conditions and medical mysteries. Dr. Lombard integrates biological, psychological, and existential components in his holistic treatment approach. Dr. Lombard’s clinical experience revealed an interesting pattern: one patient with ALS also had small-intestine bacterial overgrowth, another had ulcerative colitis, yet another had Crohn’s, and so on. He started seeing the connections between these bacterial imbalances and Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, and the link to neurological symptoms.

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Dr. Marwan Sabbagh

Dr. Richard Isaacson

Dr. Jay Lombard

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Mitopure.

I recently took a life changing trip to Antarctica to see what is really happening to our environment as the result of climate change. Before you roll your eyes or gloss over this episode, I want you to understand this: Climate change is not just floods, droughts, a hotter planet, and deadly weather events, which are all scary enough to think about. It affects our whole body health—impacting chronic disease, infectious diseases, our food supply, our mental health, and so much more. 

On my way to Antarctica, I had an important conversation with my friend Amanda Ravenhill about one of the most critical aspects of climate change and human health—our food system. We also dive into why apathy around climate change is so dangerous. 

Amanda is an active member of the international community focused on addressing imminent global challenges. She is the Co-Founder and Founding Executive Director of Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. 

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Mitopure.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why you should care about climate change if you care about your health (7:06 / 3:51)
• Overcoming apathy to feel empowered about climate solutions (12:01 / 7:10) 
• Our food system is the number-one driver of and solution to climate change (14:36 / 11:10)
• Eating and shopping regeneratively (25:22 / 20:05) 
• Reframing carbon and its potential to promote planetary life (30:29 / 25:38) 
• The role of government and corporations in helping to create climate solutions (32:33 / 27:37) 
• The case for investing in women farmers (36:38 / 32:03) 
• Applying corporate personhood to grant personhood to rights to nature (44:46 / 35:38) 
• What you can do on an individual level to support the regeneration of climate (49:18 / 44:22) 
• Shifting the climate conversation from one of despair to one of hope (56:28 / 51:53) 

Learn more about Amanda Ravenhill at amandajoyravenhill.com.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and InsideTracker.

Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the new video app, HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss a range of topics including sugar cravings, migraines, acupuncture, chronic pain, and much more. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• How to tackle candida, mold, and sugar addiction (4:11 / 00:51)
• Treating migraines and the keto diet (11:33 / 8:16) 
• Which mushrooms to eat and why (18:14 / 14:57) 
• Pea protein powder (21:26 / 18:08) 
• Combining acupuncture and Functional Medicine (28:08 / 22:46)  
• Creating a healthy community (31:16 / 25:54
• Why doctors don’t recommend nutritional solutions (34:19 / 28:58)
• Armour Thyroid and thyroid health (39:59 / 34:38)
• Losing those last five pounds (44:39 / 39:18)
• Living with chronic pain (47:57 / 42:35)

Follow me on HiHo here!

Mentioned in this episode:

The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet

The Functional Medicine Approach to Ending Migraines

How to End Migraines

5 Steps to Solve Your Migraines

Galleri Cancer Test

The UltraThyroid Solution

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.

Many of us are living our lives out of balance and are stressed from the time we wake up until the time our heads hit the pillow. The problem is that chronic stress causes inflammation and is behind many of the health conditions that affect men specifically. Stress can drive low testosterone, for instance, which is a common problem for men that drives many other health issues. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. George Papanicolaou, Dr. Louis Ignarro, and Jessie Inchauspé about low testosterone and its effects on men, the heart-protective molecule nitric oxide, the importance of minimizing blood sugar spikes, and much more. 

Dr. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for four years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility, where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health, a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

Dr. Louis Ignarro is a medical research scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his breakthrough discovery of how nitric oxide positively impacts health and longevity. His groundbreaking research on nitric oxide paved the way for—among other innovations—Viagra. He is an award-winning Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has his PhD in pharmacology, with over 35 years of experience teaching.

Jessie Inchauspé holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King's College London and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University. Her work at a genetic analysis start-up in Silicon Valley made her realize that, as the key to good health, food habits beat genetics. In her first book, Glucose Revolution, Jessie shares her startling discovery about the essential role of blood sugar in every aspect of our lives, from cravings to fertility, and the surprising hacks to optimize it while still eating the foods we love.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.

Right now, when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. George Papanicolaou

Dr. Louis Ignarro

Jessie Inchauspé

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, InsideTracker, and Cozy Earth.

Many of us will try anything to get away from hard feelings. Food, shopping, alcohol, screens… There is an endless list of distractions and addictions we use to try to avoid our emotions.

But the key word here is “try,” and as much as we might resist the tough feelings, it never really works. Today, I’m thrilled to talk about the power of sitting with unpleasant feelings with my guest Dr. Joan Rosenberg. 

Bestselling author, consultant, master clinician, and media host, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker, and trainer. As a three-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence on personal development.

A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, resilience; achieving emotional, conversational, and relationship mastery; integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy, and suicide prevention. She is the author of 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why we avoid unpleasant feelings and the physiology of these feelings (5:28 / 1:48)
• How blocking feelings leads to soulful depression (11:25 / 7:28)
• The importance of naming our feeling experiences (15:01 / 11:10)
• Ninety seconds to a life you love (18:25 / 14:35)
• Dealing with lingering feelings and disappointment (26:11 / 20:44)
• Identifying disguised grief (36:11 / 30:54)
• Five categories of grieving (38:48 / 33:30) 
• Finding the good that may have resulted from difficult life experiences (45:31 / 39:38)
• Building emotional strength and speaking truth with love (47:36 / 42:15) 
• Why it’s vital to stop harsh self-criticism and accept compliments (1:09:52 / 1:04:20)

Get a copy of Dr. Rosenberg’s book, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity, here, and download her powerful, free tools to help you create a life of your design here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of Part II of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on Functional Dentistry with Dr. Mark Burhenne. 

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Today, as part of my Masterclass series, I’m answering questions submitted by my community through the new video app HiHo. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss a range of topics, including Lewy body dementia, the ketogenic diet, why fried foods are not a healthy choice, low thyroid function, gut health, and much more. Find a link below to follow me on HiHo and we may select your question for a future episode!

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Vuori.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Functional Medicine treatment approach to Lewy body dementia (5:01 / 1:39) 
• What a keto diet plan really looks like (27:30 / 22:15) 
• How deep-fried foods affect our health (36:22 / 31:28) 
• At-home testing (42:29 / 37:35) 
• Leaky gut and low thyroid function (48:32 / 43:35) 
• Treatment options for H. Pylori (56:23 / 51:31)  

Follow me on HiHo here.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The UltraThyroid Solution
• The Irritable Bowel Solution 
• Dr. Izabella Wentz  
• Exploring alternative treatments for Helicobacter pylori infection
• Current knowledge on alleviating Helicobacter pylori infections through the use of some commonly known natural products: bench to bedside
• Medicinal plants in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Inadequate sleep, in terms of both quantity and quality, is a major problem for many of us. Not only does not sleeping well leave us feeling bad, it is also detrimental to our overall health. Poor sleep can lead to everything from mood swings to blood sugar and hormonal imbalances, weight gain, poor memory, and much more.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Andrew Huberman, Dr. Cindy Geyer, and Shawn Stevenson about how to create daily habits to support restful sleep, including how we can best honor our circadian rhythm. 

Dr. Andrew Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow. He was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, which is given to the scientist making the largest discoveries in the study of vision. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at the Stanford University School of Medicine has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured inTime, Scientific American, and Discover magazines, the BBC, and other top media outlets.

Dr. Cindy Geyer received her bachelor of science and doctor of medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She joined The UltraWellness Center in 2021 after practicing and serving as the medical director at Canyon Ranch for 23 years.

Shawn Stevenson is the author of the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter and creator of The Model Health Show, the number-one health podcast in the US, with millions of listener downloads each year. A graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology, and nutritional science and went on to found Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle & Fitness, ESPN, and many other major media outlets. He is also an in-demand keynote speaker for numerous organizations, universities, and conferences.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Andrew Huberman

Dr. Cindy Geyer

Shawn Stevenson

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Our greatest tool for learning and growing is each other. It might be easy to think that means we should surround ourselves with people who only share our specific interests or professions. But, we may actually gain the most from those we least expect to connect with. I’ve been so blessed to cross paths with many inspiring people in my life who have influenced how I pursue my passions in both work and my personal life. Today, I’m so excited to talk to Jeff Rosenthal, who has been a catalyst for me to collaborate with many others. 

Jeff is the Co-Founder of Summit, a cutting-edge organization best known for hosting global ideas festivals and events, and is the co-owner, principal designer, and developer of Summit Powder Mountain and Powder Mountain ski resort in Eden, Utah. He’s the co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The two types of people who are “afflicted by ambition” (8:59 / 5:30)
• How Jeff and his colleagues at Summit approach their events (12:03 / 9:21)
• The science of altruism and winning at the game of giving (15:57 / 13:16)
• Applying the mindset of possibility to creating Summit events (22:42 / 19:20)
• Jeff and his colleagues’ unique approach to purchasing a mountain (28:18 / 25:14) 
• The secrets to bringing fun to Summit events (33:18 / 28:30)
• The number-one metric Summit considers as a measure of success (36:16 / 30:20)
• My life-changing experience at a Summit event (36:48 / 31:56)
• The power of community and how to build it for ourselves (41:17 / 34:36) 
• Reimagining our world and dreaming big (53:07 / 45:00) 

Get a copy of Jeff’s book, Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community, at summit.co/make-no-small-plans.

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Acne is the number-one skin condition in the United States, affecting not just millions of teenagers but an increasing number of adults under the guise of hormones. Typically, the first thing we reach for to deal with acne is a lotion, potion, or cream to apply to the skin—and conventional medicine doctors frequently prescribe birth-control pills. However, these approaches do not target the root cause of acne.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the biggest triggers of acne, why we all react differently, and the top nutrients for skin health. We also discuss some frequently asked questions from our community about acne during puberty and more.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and Vuori.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The three biggest triggers of acne (4:45 / 1:37) 
• Why we all react differently (6:50 / 3:31) 
• Foods that can aggravate acne (9:30 / 4:44)
• Sugar as a main cause of acne (11:15 / 8:00)
• The importance of evaluating gut health (13:56 / 10:40) 
• Hormonal shifts and why birth control may not be the answer to combating acne (15:17 / 12:13)
• Nutrients for skin health (24:13 / 16:22)
• Questions from our community (27:07 / 22:04)

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We are in a climate crisis. Although we might feel helpless and hopeless at times about this crisis, we actually have the ability to contribute to the reversal of global warming. It starts with our food choices and using our dollar to support companies that have plans to do their part and sequester carbon. In today’s episode, I talk with Paul Hawken, David Wallace-Wells, Jared Blumenfeld, and Tom Newmark about the urgency of taking action to stabilize the earth’s climate. 

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. Paul is Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. He is on a mission to present real, already existing solutions to reverse global warming.

David Wallace-Wells is Deputy Editor of New York Magazine and the author of the international bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, published in February 2019, which the New York Times called both "brilliant" and "the most terrifying book I have ever read." While the real truth about climate change can be scary, it’s a more important conversation than ever. Throughout our talk, David shares the history of climate change and the three major issues at hand: speed, scope, and severity.

Jared Blumenfeld is California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection. Appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in January, he is one of America’s most innovative environmental leaders, with more than 25 years of environmental policy and management experience at the local, national, and international levels.

Tom Newmark is the co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, an organic and biodynamic farm and ecolodge in the mountainous rainforest of Costa Rica that teaches regenerative agriculture. Tom is the cofounder and board chair of The Carbon Underground, cofounder of the Soil Carbon Initiative, and a founding member of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative of California State University, Chico.

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When we think about optimizing health, we need to think about redesigning life in a way that supports a healthspan that matches our lifespan. But sadly, most of us know more about our cars or iPhones than we do about our bodies. One of the greatest downfalls of that is that many people don’t trust our bodies’ natural ability to heal. Today, I’m so excited to talk to an old friend and pioneer of integrative medicine whose work has guided my path as a doctor, Dr. Andrew Weil. We take a deep dive into the body’s innate healing capacity and how food is our greatest ally to support that process. 

Dr. Andrew Weil is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, he is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he is a clinical professor of medicine and professor of public health. A New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Weil is the author of 15 books on health and wellbeing, including Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better, and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own; Fast Food, Good Food; True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure; Spontaneous Happiness; Healthy Aging; and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. He is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading online resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He is also a founder and partner in the growing family of True Food Kitchen restaurants.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• How studying botany at Harvard shaped Dr. Weil’s perspective in medical school and beyond (7:31 / 3:45) 
• Activating the body’s own healing mechanisms to create health (15:26 / 11:41) 
• Inflammation as the common root of chronic disease (19:26 /  16:03) 
• Anti-inflammatory diet and foods (25:41 / 20:33) 
• Understanding the mind-body connection (33:52 / 29:06) 
• How to start incorporating healing practices into your life and your patient’s lives (38:54 / 33:48)  
• The backwards economics of our current healthcare system (44:27 / 39:10) 
• Staying healthy as you age (47:32 / 42:28) 
• Dr. Weil’s daily health practices (54:45 / 49:36) 
• Emerging research on the therapeutic effects of mushrooms (56:42 / 52:18) 

Learn more about Dr. Weil and his work at his website, drweil.com.

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Our food supply is dramatically less nutrient rich than it has ever been, and it’s taking a toll on our health. A shocking 99 percent of Americans are nutrient deficient, including over 90 percent who are deficient in omega 3 fats and 50 percent who are deficient in magnesium. 

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the top supplements for longevity, especially NAD, which inhibits inflammation, increases metabolism, and increases insulin sensitivity. We also discuss how to critically evaluate supplement research and much more.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Paleovalley, and ButcherBox.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The value of including supplements in your health routine (4:49 / 1:36) 
• Top three supplements I recommend (7:03 / 3:43)
• How to critically review supplement research (26:28 / 21:16)
• Conventional medicine’s approach to supplements (27:09 / 22:14) 
• The best supplements for longevity (27:09 / 24:38) 
• The value of resveratrol (42:38 / 37:22) 
• Questions from our community on brain health supplement recommendations, how to measure success of supplements, and more (49:32 / 43:55) 

Mentioned in this episode:

Reduction in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes with Lifestyle Intervention or Metformin 

Long-latency deficiency disease: insights from calcium and vitamin D by Robert P. Heaney

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The foundation we set for our children’s health in childhood—starting even before conception—will carry them throughout their lives. Yet a third of all American children are overweight or obese, and we are seeing an increase in type 2 diabetes in children. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham, Sam Kass, and Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh about the urgency of prioritizing and establishing good nutrition habits in infancy, in the home as the child grows, and in school. 

Dr. 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.

After cooking for the Obamas in Chicago for two years, Sam Kass joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009. During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles, including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he helped Mrs. Obama create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden. Currently, Sam is a partner at Acre Venture Partners. Acre is a venture-capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission to improve human and environmental health in the food system. The fund focuses on early-stage, highly disruptive impactful companies in the food system focused on agriculture, the supply chain, and the consumer. Sam is also the author of Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World.

Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh is leading the work in understanding the infant microbiome. She is a nutritional scientist who helps new and expectant moms learn about creating healthy gut bugs in their babies. She translates her extensive scientific knowledge of breastmilk and the gut microbiome into practical terms to help parents understand how a balanced gut from infancy can lead to a healthy immune system and metabolism for life. Dr. Shafizadeh received her PhD in nutritional biology from the University of California, Davis, and spends her free time "loving the guts" out of her two boys.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Dr. Elizabeth Boham

Sam Kass

Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh

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Humans have coevolved with food and its medicinal actions on our bodies, meaning we have actual cell receptors for specific food-derived molecules. So why aren’t doctors trained in how to use food as medicine? We’re taught all about using pharmaceuticals to affect our biology, but the power of food is left high and dry. I think this is a foundational area of medical training we need to change. That’s why I’m so excited to talk to one of my favorite people and thinkers in the world of food and medicine on this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. William Li. 

Dr. William Li is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? has garnered more than 11 million views, and he has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Martha Stewart Live, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America, and has presented at the Vatican’s Unite to Cure conference. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Dr. Li’s journey to understanding the power of eating to beat disease (6:53 / 3:20) 
• How food can activate our body’s healing defense systems (15:56 / 13:11) 
• Why Dr. Li changed his mind about organic foods (20:44 / 17:23) 
• The benefits of nutritional diversity and eating “weird foods” (25:45 / 22:04) 
• Research showing how eating tree nuts benefited colorectal cancer patients (30:18 / 26:00) 
• Combining food and pharmaceutical drugs (34:06 / 30:31) 
• Prescribing food as medicine (44:01 / 39:37) 
• Reimagining our approach to Covid and long Covid (52:37 / 47:38)
• Foods that lower inflammation and boost the immune system (55:22 / 51:50) 
• Three ways to start using food as medicine (1:09:46 / 1:04:49) 

Find Dr. Li’s Eat To Beat Disease Masterclass at drwilliamli.com/masterclass and get a copy of his book, Eat To Beat Disease, at drwilliamli.com/book-li.

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The number-one reason people visit the doctor is problems with the gut. Not only do gut issues impair gut function, making life miserable, but they also are a contributing factor to many serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes, and more.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the three biggest contributing factors to compromised gut health. We discuss the importance of looking at gut function, the top foods that typically cause gut problems, and the top substances that support healing the gut.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Pendulum.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Three main things that destroy your gut health (4:11 / 1:00) 
• Diving into dysbiosis (8:18 / 5:00) 
• Microbiome testing and gut-health evaluation (13:12 / 10:00) 
• Toxins that harm the gut (16:48 / 13:34) 
• How and why stress is bad for your gut (21:45 / 17:18) 
• My personal gut-health story (26:16 / 21:44) 
• Best and worst things for your gut (29:15 / 24:45) 
• Questions from our community, including constipation and heartburn (31:57 / 27:44)

Mentioned in this episode:

An Epidemic of Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Missing Microbes by Martin J. Blaser, MD

Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall

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Seventy-five percent of women experience daily symptoms due to hormonal imbalances. Some of these symptoms are irritating, like insomnia, sugar cravings, fluid retention, moodiness, and headaches, while others can be more devastating, such as infertility. Often, many of these symptoms are written off as “normal” and just a part of a woman’s cycle or transition into menopause, but the truth is that there are many things we can do to reverse them to live each day more comfortably. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Sara Gottfried about how many women’s health issues can be resolved using a Functional Medicine approach. We discuss how PCOS, debilitating PMS, and other hormonal imbalances often stem from diet and exposure to environmental toxins.

Dr. 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. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based, integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books are The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is called Women, Food, and Hormones.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

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Dr. Sara Gottfried

Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The way we breathe impacts everything from how well we sleep to our metabolism, cognitive function, immunity, and more. That’s why it’s so alarming that most of us are doing it wrong. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk all about the science and evolution of how we breathe, and how to get better at it, with James Nestor. 

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly—and how to get it back. James has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including ABC’s Nightline and CBS’s Morning News, and on NPR. He lives and breathes in San Francisco.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why breathing is so important to our overall health (4:34 / ​​1:50)
• Using breath to boost your immune system and break stress (9:03 / 4:25) 
• The personal health issues that led James to study breath (14:26 / 11:25)
• Why breathing through your nose is better than breathing through your mouth (16:38 / 13:36) 
• The benefits of nighttime mouth taping (23:07 / 20:06) 
• Nasal breathing tips and techniques (29:19 / 25:30) 
• Ancient lost arts of breathing (30:36 / 27:14) 
• Lung capacity and aging (37:51 / 32:44)
• Breathe like your ancestors (43:13 / 37:06)
• What is kundalini? (53:19 / 48:13)  

Learn more about James’ work and get his book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, at

mrjamesnestor.com/order-now.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on Functional Dentistry with Dr. Mark Burhenne. 

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Autoimmune disease is, by far, the most widespread chronic health condition today, with a prevalence greater than heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. It is staggering! Sadly, however, conventional medicine is making numerous mistakes when it comes to treating patients with autoimmune disease by attempting to manage symptoms rather than resolve the root cause and heal the body.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about what’s really behind the rates of climbing autoimmune disease. We discuss environmental and dietary changes, reduction in quality of food, and much more—and then what we can do to heal.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Pendulum.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. Check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

For a limited time, ButcherBox will send new subscribers 2 lbs of 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef free in every box for the life of your subscription—plus an additional $10 off. To receive this offer, go to ButcherBox.com/farmacy.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Three mistakes people make in treating autoimmune disease (4:34 / 1:10) 
• Underlying causes that are increasing rates of autoimmune disease (8:12 / 5:06) 
• Why the Functional Medicine approach to health is unique (17:37 / 14:45) 
• Toxins and how they contribute to autoimmune disease (18:35 / 15:40) 
• Early detection of autoimmune activity (22:18 / 19:18) 
• Functional Medicine testing to diagnose autoimmune disease (31:06 / 26:33) 
• Questions from our community on scleroderma, Hashimoto’s disease, emerging technologies, and more (39:33 / 34:44)  

Mentioned in this episode:

Isabel Overcomes Autoimmune Disease

The UltraThyroid Solution

How a Doctor Cured Her Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine 

Reversing Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

There’s no doubt that factory farming should be illegal, but that is a far cry from stating that all meat is bad. Grass-fed beef is extremely different from conventionally raised beef. In other words, the way your meat is raised matters.

In today’s episode, I talk with Chris Kresser, Robb Wolf, Diana Rodgers, and Nicolette Niman about the myths and stigmas surrounding red-meat consumption, how to choose sustainably raised meat, and much more.

Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac., is the codirector of the California Center for Functional Medicine, founder of the Kresser Institute, creator of ChrisKresser.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health and has trained over 1,500 clinicians and health coaches in his unique approach. 

Robb Wolf, a former research biochemist, is the two-time New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired to Eat. Robb is the cofounder of The Healthy Rebellion, a social movement with the goal of liberating 1 million people from the sick-care system. Robb is the executive producer of the film Sacred Cow. 

Diana Rodgers, RD, is a “real food” nutritionist living on a working organic farm near Boston, Massachusetts. She’s an author, runs a clinical nutrition practice, hosts the Sustainable Dish podcast, and is an advisory board member of Animal Welfare Approved and Savory Institute. Her new book, Sacred Cow: The Case For Better Meat, and the film she directed and produced, also called Sacred Cow, are available.

Nicolette Hahn Niman is a writer, attorney, and livestock rancher. She has authored the books Defending Beef and Righteous Porkchop, as well as numerous essays for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was Senior Attorney for the environmental organization Waterkeeper, where she focused on agriculture and food production; before that, she was an environmental lawyer for the National Wildlife Federation. Today, she lives in Northern California with her two sons and her husband, Bill Niman, founder of the natural-meat companies Niman Ranch and BN Ranch.

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Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

Chris Kresser

Robb Wolf and Diana Rodgers

Nicolette Niman

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We often think of eating well in terms of managing our weight or heart health, but what about supporting the brain? There are so many foods we can eat to support better cognition, reduce the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, and feel sharper, smarter, and happier every day. Along those same lines, many of the processed foods in our Standard American Diet are sabotaging our brain health with loads of excess sugar and other sneaky ingredients. I’m excited to sit down with Max Lugavere to explore what it looks like to eat a diet that specifically benefits the brain. If you’re thinking you don’t need that focus in your personal diet, think again: these habits and foods are benefiting your entire body, too.

Max Lugavere is a health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, now published in 10 languages around the globe. His sophomore book, also a best-seller, is called The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary. Max is the host of a #1 iTunes health and wellness podcast, called The Genius Life. His new cookbook, Genius Kitchen, just hit shelves yesterday.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• How Max’s mother’s illness led him to understand the relationship between diet and brain health (5:38 / 2:30) 
• Scientific evidence of how nutrition influences the brain (9:21 / 6:00)  
• Superfoods for the brain (15:07 / 11:35) 
• Why we overeat ultra-processed, but not nutritionally satisfying, foods (19:26 / 16:15)
• Health effects of meat consumption (33:12 / 28:15) 
• Health benefits of eggs and some types of dairy (46:36 / 43:26) 
• Dark, leafy greens and brain health (53:43 / 48:35) 
• Cooking at home (59:05 / 53:49) 
• Natural food sources of collagen (1:02:26 / 57:18) 
• The best and worst cooking oils (1:04:53 / 59:46) 

Learn more about Max at maxlugavere.com and get his new book, Genius Kitchen, at geniuskitchenbook.com.

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Looking younger is not just about what creams you slather on your face; it’s actually an inside job. Treating your body well on the inside has numerous health benefits, including the quality and appearance of your skin. The skin can reflect the level of inflammation in the body, poor gut health, or even food allergies. 

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about what we can do to support the body—and the skin. We discuss why essential fatty acids, organ meats, and hot and cold therapies are all important, and so much more.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Testing to evaluate aging in your body (4:44 / 1:53)
• Looking at the external impact of internal health (11:17 / 8:25)  
• The importance of essential fatty acids (14:59 / 12:07) 
• Nutrient density of organ meats for skin health (19:52 / 15:30) 
• Hot and cold treatments (22:31 / 18:00) 
• The impact of stress on appearance (31:09 /26:38) 
• Why we need to focus on hydration (38:06 / 33:38)
• Foods to eat and not to eat (43:00 / 38:24) 
• Questions from our community (46:58 / 42:29) 

Mentioned in this episode:

Commune “The Lab”

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

LyteShow Electrolytes

EWG Skin Deep

The Wrinkle Cure

OmegaQuant 

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Fasting has numerous proven benefits to optimize health. It can help reduce inflammation, brain fog, and insulin resistance. It can also increase energy and bone density, activate autophagy—the process of cleaning out damaged cells—and reduce the signs of aging. The food we eat has an amazing ability to heal, but the timing of when we eat or abstain from eating can also have profound impacts on our health. 

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Valter Longo, Dave Asprey, and Dr. Jason Fung about the mechanisms behind fasting, why most of us can benefit from fasting, and how fasting can be a useful tool in cancer treatment.

Dr. Valter Longo is an internationally recognized leader in the field of aging studies and related diseases. Valter is the author of an extraordinary book, The Longevity Diet. The culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe, it provides an easy-to-understand, accessible, and implementable road map to living well longer through improved nutrition.

Dave Asprey is the creator of the Bulletproof Diet and innovator of Bulletproof Coffee. Over the last two decades Dave, the “Father of Biohacking,” has worked with world-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, and global mavericks to uncover the latest, most innovative methods, techniques, and products for enhancing mental and physical performance.

Dr. Jason Fung is a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking, science-based books about diabetes and obesity—The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The Complete Guide to Fasting—have sold over one million copies and challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin. His latest book is The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery.

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Dr. Valter Longo

Dave Asprey

Dr. Jason Fung

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Food should be a tool for helping us feel our best. But, most people don’t realize what kind of impact their favorite foods are having on their blood sugar, and subsequently their entire body. Feeling hungry even when you just ate, craving sweets, and dealing with acne, hormonal imbalances, and signs of aging like wrinkles are just a few of the many symptoms of blood sugar swings. When these continue to go unchecked more severe dysfunctions can occur. On today’s episode, I talk to Jessie Inchauspé, also known as the “Glucose Goddess,” all about her tried-and-true hacks for balancing blood sugar and increasing insulin sensitivity.

Jessie holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King's College London and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University. Her work at a genetic analysis start-up in Silicon Valley made her realize that, as the key to good health, food habits beat genetics. In her first book, Glucose Revolution, Jessie shares her startling discovery about the essential role of blood sugar in every aspect of our lives, from cravings to fertility, and the surprising hacks to optimize it while still eating the foods we love.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and Athletic Greens.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The spinal injury and mental health issues that started Jessie’s health journey (5:35 / 2:34)
• Symptoms of blood sugar swings (11:36 / 8:20) 
• Jessie’s top hacks for stabilizing glucose levels (19:08 / 15:50)
• Why some people metabolize glucose differently than others (29:07 / 24:35)  
• Blood sugar, aging, and longevity (33:17 / 27:55) 
• How glucose affects our energy production (28:35) 
• Sugar and hormonal imbalances (39:12 / 34:37) 
• The best and worst forms of starch (43:10 / 37:44)
• When glucose levels don’t tell the full story (54:30 / 49:51) 
• Stress and blood sugar (57:09 / 52:31)

Follow Jessie on Instagram @glucosegoddess and order her book, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar in the U.S. here and in the UK here. 

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Contrary to popular belief, holding on to weight isn’t just about a lack of willpower or not exercising enough; even genetics plays just a minor role. There are numerous other factors that influence our weight, including things like our gut microbiome, toxins, mitochondrial function, hormones, and even our social networks. But by applying the principles of Functional Medicine, we can peel back the layers to determine where the focus needs to be for each individual to support and balance their body and help them achieve a healthy weight.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the eight reasons we can’t lose weight and how to overcome roadblocks in weight loss.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Eight reasons you are holding on to weight (4:36 / 1:00) 
• Being overfed and undernourished (7:44 / 4:21)
• The role of the gut microbiome (10:03 / 6:32)  
• Inflammation and immune function (13:12 / 9:48) 
• How toxins impact weight (14:44 / 11:20) 
• The importance of energy production (16:51 / 13:30) 
• The communication system, including hormones (18:43 / 15:23) 
• Genes attributed to obesity (24:28 / 20:57) 
• The value of a health-oriented social network (28:43 / 25:16) 
• Questions from our community (33:34 / 29:44) 

Mentioned in this episode:

The UltraThyroid Solution PDF

Weight Loss PDF

Levels

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Dr. Gabor Mate

Byron Katie “The Work” 

Byron Katie Video

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Community is medicine, just like food or sleep. Without community, we can become isolated, which has been found to be connected with inflammation and can even negatively impact immune response. Moreover, whom you choose to be in community with also matters. Your immediate social circle—the four-to-five people you surround yourself with the most—has the greatest influence on your health. In today’s episode, I talk with Radha Agrawal, Dan Buettner, and Dr. Vivek Murthy about why community matters, what we have learned from cultures that prioritize community in their population, and how to take care of our needs first before giving to others.

Radha Agrawal is the Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, the early morning dance and wellness move-ment. Daybreaker currently holds events in 25 cities and more than a dozen college campuses around the world and has a community of almost half a million people. She is also the author of the book, Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life. 

Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world— dubbed Blue Zones hotspots—where people live the longest, healthiest lives.

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States from December 15, 2014 to April 21, 2017 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 23, 2021 as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. In 2017, Dr. Murthy focused his attention on chronic stress and loneliness as prevalent problems that have profound implications for health, productivity, and happiness. He is the author of, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.

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Radha Agrawal

Dan Buettner

Dr. Vivek Murthy

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For the past two years, we’ve been flooded with Covid-related information. We’ve heard conflicting recommendations on everything from how to prevent the spread, reduce the severity, and recover, but many people are still unsure of which actions make the most impact. To me, a key underlying issue of the pandemic is that we aren’t addressing the health of the host. With the virus actively looking for a new home, it’s within our power to make our bodies the least appealing place for it to settle down. 

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to Dr. Roger Seheult about giving our bodies the best inputs to stay resilient against Covid and other infectious diseases. Dr. Roger Seheult is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine and Allied Health at Loma Linda University. Dr. Seheult is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is also the co-founder of MedCram, an online medical education company that helps healthcare professionals and laypeople understand medical topics clearly.

This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market, Rupa Health, and Eight Sleep.

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Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Top things we can do to protect our immune systems and fight Covid-19 (5:45 / 2:53) 
• The link between inflammation and immunity (7:43 / 4:50) 
• Vitamin D supplementation and Covid-19 (10:25 / 7:26) 
• Natural remedies for upgrading your immune system (14:46 / 11:54) 
• Exercise and immune function (20:32 / 17:42) 
• How sleep regulates our immune system (27:33 / 22:43) 
• Practical tips for improving sleep quality (32:14 / 27:37)  
• The science behind hot and cold therapy (36:09 / 31:09) 
• Foods to eat and avoid to support the immune system (48:45 / 43:55)  
• Plant vs. animal proteins (55:36 / 50:50) 

Learn more about Dr. Seheult’s work at medcram.com.

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Eating ultra-processed foods—made primarily from wheat, corn, and soy—increases your death rate by 75 percent. How’s that for a sobering statistic! Unfortunately, American grocery-store shelves are monopolized by foods that contain ingredients that you should never eat, like partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and more. These foods have been scientifically proven to cause disease and death, so why do we still keep reaching for them?

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about foods that you should never eat again, foods to limit, and the food industry’s role in why these foods are so pervasive in our supermarkets.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Vuori.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Six foods to never eat (3:58 / 1:11) 
• Four foods to limit (13:05 / 10:20) 
• Common food products with ingredients to avoid (15:57 / 13:01) 
• The food industry’s role in harmful ingredients (20:21 / 17:20) 
• Why to avoid gums and emulsifiers (27:07 / 24:03) 
• Determining your personal processed-food consumption (31:49 / 28:24) 
• Questions from our community, including how processed foods impact the body, agricultural policies for processed foods, are vegetable oils really that bad, and more (34:05 / 30:57) 

Mentioned in this episode:

My Way Café

Eat REAL

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Glyphosate is a popular pesticide that has a big downside—it’s destroying our health. It damages our good gut bacteria and may lead to leaky gut. Glyphosate also depletes glutathione, our master antioxidant and a cornerstone of our biology, and it dramatically impacts our sulfur, methylation, and detoxification pathways that have many essential roles for our health. And not only is glyphosate harming human health and the health of our future generations, it’s also destroying our ecosystems.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ken Cook, and Dr. Zach Bush about why it’s important to be aware of the effects of glyphosate and make choices that reduce our exposure as much as possible.

Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a bachelor's degree from MIT in Biology with a minor in Food and Nutrition Science, and a master’s degree, an engineer’s degree, and a PhD degree, all from MIT, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, glyphosate, and the mineral, sulfur. She is the author of Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment.

Ken Cook is president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances.

Dr. Zach Bush is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. Dr. Bush founded Seraphic Group and the non-profit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut-brain health.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Cozy Earth, and Eight Sleep.

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Ken Cook

Dr. Zach Bush

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Heart disease is still the number one killer in the world, yet most people don’t actually understand what markers put them most at risk. It’s so much more than just LDL cholesterol. Statins have become the panacea for anyone with LDL that’s just a little off, yet most people (and even many doctors) aren’t fully informed of the risks versus the benefits of this drug, let alone aware of other treatment options for heart disease. Today, I talk to Dr. Aseem Malhotra about the real data on statins, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, and so much more. 

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is an NHS-trained consultant cardiologist and visiting Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Brazil. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar. In 2015, he became the youngest member to be appointed to the board of trustees of UK health charity, The King's Fund. He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK and in 2018 was ranked by software company Onalytica as the number one doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking. Dr. Malhotra's first book The Pioppi Diet, co-authored with Donal O'Neill, was an international bestseller and his next book, The 21-Day Immunity Plan, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. His new book is A Statin-Free Life.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Mitopure.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Statin drugs and our overexaggerated fear of cholesterol’s role in heart disease (9:14  / 6:00)
• Are heart-attack and heart-disease death rates decreasing? (11:06 / 8:15)
• Statin benefits for people who have already had a heart attack (16:21 / 13:00) 
• Statin effectiveness for heart-attack and stroke prevention (20:29 / 17:04) 
• Why we’re typically looking at the wrong thing when we measure cholesterol (21:45 / 21:05)
• Targeting insulin resistance as a root cause of heart disease (32:39 / 27:33)
• Positive and negative effects of statins (36:15 / 33:04)
• Prediabetes, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and heart health (45:37 / 40:08)
• Foods to avoid and eat for heart health (51:41 / 46:33)
• Exercise and stress reduction for heart health (56:35 / 51:32) 

Get a copy of Dr. Malhotra’s book, A Statin-Free Life: A Revolutionary Life Plan for Tackling Heart Disease—Without The Use of Statins, here.

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Globally, the rate of chronic disease is double the rate of infectious disease. The single most important thing you can do every day to reduce your risk of chronic disease and change your biology is choose the right foods. What you put on the end of your fork matters, as food works with all seven of our body systems for optimal function, and it contains phytochemicals critical to our evolution that helps us achieve optimal health.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about what foods will help you live longer and how food affects every single body function, and we even answer some questions from our community.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• The most important foods for longevity (4:45 / 1:30) 
• How food affects all the systems in your body (10:09 / 6:35) 
• The astounding amount of chronic disease and death attributed to food and diet (19:14 / 15:41) 
• Why the conventional medicine approach overlooks nutrition (21:42 / 18:03) 
• Questions from my community on bitter foods and avoiding cancer (30:19 / 26:53) 

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Food As Medicine PDF

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Only about 12 percent of Americans are considered “metabolically healthy.” That means the other 88 percent of us aren’t meeting basic medical guidelines for things like blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, and other markers of metabolic health. In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Cindy Geyer, Dr. Ben Bikman, Mark Sisson, and Dr. Elizabeth Boham about how to identify if you are metabolically unhealthy, how to optimize your metabolic flexibility, and much more.

Dr. Cindy Geyer received her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She joined The Ultrawellness Center in 2021 after practicing and serving as the medical director at Canyon Ranch for 23 years. 

Dr. Ben Bikman is a renowned metabolic research scientist and a popular speaker on human metabolism and nutrition. Backed by years of research, Dr. Bikman’s mission is to help the world appreciate the prevalence and relevance of insulin resistance. He is the author of the book Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease—and How to Fight It, which offers a thought-provoking yet real solution to insulin resistance and reversing prediabetes, improving brain function, shedding fat, and preventing diabetes. 

Mark Sisson is the founder of the popular daily health blog Mark’s Daily Apple, godfather to the Primal food and lifestyle movement, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever. His latest book is Keto for Life: Reset Your Biological Clock in 21 Days and Optimize Your Diet for Longevity, where he discusses how he combines the keto diet with a Primal lifestyle for optimal health and longevity. Mark is the author of numerous other books as well, including The Primal Blueprint.

Dr. 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. 

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We can’t have a healthy, high-functioning mind without a healthy, high-functioning brain. Yet, in a world where many people feel unhappy or downright depressed, most of us aren’t prioritizing time each day to upgrade our brains and be intentional about our mindset. I’m here to tell you that if you want to feel happier and more empowered, it’s time to start. 

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to my good friend and colleague Dr. Daniel Amen all about the scientifically proven ways he’s discovered to increase happiness.

Dr. Daniel Amen is a physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, twelve-time New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 10 US locations. Dr. Amen is the author of many books including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as The End of Mental Illness, Memory Rescue, Healing ADD, and Your Brain Is Always Listening. His new book, You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, comes out this month. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• Why happiness is a function of the brain (4:59 / 2:38)
• Happiness is geared to your brain type (11:09 / 8:03) 
• Supplements for brain health (15:01 / 11:57) 
• The four circles of happiness (19:09 / 16:02) 
• The impact of Covid-19 on the brain and mental health (27:43 / 22:49)
• Happy foods and sad foods (37:22 / 32:23)
• Four nutraceuticals for brain health (42:41 / 37:44)
• Getting rid of the negative voice in your head (45:08 / 40:07) 
• Why you should give your mind a name (48:32 / 43:34)
• Hedonism is the enemy of happiness (57:17 / 54:18)

Get a copy of Dr. Amen’s book, You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, here. Take the Brain Health Assessment here.

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. 

For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast.  

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on decreasing your cancer risk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham. 

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Sugar is the number-one thing we can all use less of in our lives—in fact, just thinking about it releases insulin! Sugar turns on many mechanisms of disease and death, including inflammation. It fuels cancer and heart disease, it drives hormonal changes, it slows metabolism, and it literally shuts down the body’s ability to burn fat. On top of all that, sugar is highly addictive: the more we eat, the more we want. 

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about why sugar is so harmful to our health, why the type of sugar really doesn’t matter, and much more. 

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why sugar is so detrimental to your health (4:39 / 1:04) 
• Sugar dosage and how it compounds throughout the day (11:45 / 8:20) 
• Are healthier sugar options really any better? (15:53 /11:23) 
• The many different types of sugar (19:43 / 16:02) 
• What to look for to see how your body responds to sugar, including labs (28:21 / 24:35)
• Questions from our community, including the impact of sugar on the microbiome, fungal overgrowth, natural food-based sugars, and more (37:20 / 33:46) 

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Eliminating starch and sugar could be the most powerful food choice you make to improve your health and increase your longevity. Why? Because it can reduce or eliminate insulin resistance, which is behind so many chronic diseases. Add to that reducing stress and sleeping better, and you're on the way to a healthier lifestyle that benefits both your body and your mind.

In five clips from my Masterclass series, Dhru Purohit and I discuss the basics of Functional Medicine, including diet, inflammation, stress, and sleep, and why it's important to start reducing chronic disease right now to live a longer, healthier, vitality-filled life.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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Just five years ago, the concept of age reversal was considered crazy. Now, it’s the hottest topic in research, as we continuously discover exciting interventions that can actually reverse our biological age. I’ve experienced these amazing advances firsthand—chronologically I’m 62, but my biological, or “inner” age, is only 39. 

And I’m not the only one who’s become fascinated by the science of age reversal and reaped the benefits. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis about their research and personal journeys in aging backwards using a range of simple, accessible interventions and the latest health-tech. 

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and philanthropist honored by Accenture as one of the top 50 business intellectuals in the world. Through his philanthropy and partnership with Feeding America, he has provided more than 800 million meals and is on track to provide 1 billion meals by 2025.

Peter Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He was recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.” He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The physical injury that inspired Tony to write this book (5:45 / 3:12) 
• Redefining our concept of aging (19:10 / 16:00) 
• Understanding how to modify genes to reverse aging (21:10 / 17:52) 
• New diagnostic testing to inform us about our health (36:36 / 31:54) 
• Simple ways to enhance your longevity and health (45:01 / 41:19) 
• Sleeping, eating, and fasting for longevity (48:05 / 43:14) 
• Exercising for longevity (54:08 / 49:33) 
• How mindset affects aging and longevity (1:00:20 / 55:35) 
• Three things that lead to emotional mastery (1:06:31 / 1:03:38)
• Nutraceuticals, supplements, medicines, and other new therapies to enhance health and longevity (1:13:06 / 1:08:21) 

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Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free!  It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. 

In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode.

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Belly fat, or visceral fat around the organs, is the number-one cause of aging. It drives inflammation, increases the risk of blood clots, changes your hormones and brain chemistry, and more. It’s a recipe for disaster in the body. Not only does belly fat surround the organs, but it’s an organ of its own that produces dangerous inflammatory cytokines that may lead to a cytokine storm. In short, we want to do everything we can to avoid belly fat.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about belly fat, or visceral adipose tissue. We discuss how this form of fat is the most dangerous and why it’s so important to take steps to reduce it.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Top foods that lead to belly fat (4:13 / 1:08) 
• Why belly fat is so bad for us (7:01 / 4:06) 
• The effects of liquid sugar and calories (13:03 / 9:44) 
• The connection between belly fat and heart disease (15:21 / 11:57) 
• How belly fat affects your brain and could lead to Alzheimer’s and dementia (18:43 / 15:16) 
• Why it’s not your fault you have belly fat (20:37 / 17:16)
• Case study of a 65-year-old woman (28:01 / 24:55) 
• Questions from our community, including belly fat after menopause, late-night eating, the impact of stress, and more (31:16 / 28:18) 

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Janice’s Story

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You can start to heal your body right now simply with the food you put in your mouth—it's really that simple. Food has the power to heal the body from many ailments and can even help prevent cancer. There are many powerful medicinal compounds in foods: curcumin, catechins, lycopene, resveratrol, and quercetin, just to name a few. That’s why I call the grocery store the drug store; we can literally eat our medicine at every meal.

In this compilation episode, I am joined by Dr. William Li to discuss how to use food as medicine, the importance of nitric oxide for our blood vessels, the role of the microbiome, and why it's necessary to support the immune system.

William Li, MD, is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.

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Uric acid is a central player in metabolic mayhem. Despite its long association with gout and kidney stones, it’s involved in so much more—especially our metabolic disease epidemic. There are three things that raise our levels of uric acid: purines, alcohol, and fructose. The latter is the biggest challenge, due to its overwhelming presence in our Standard American Diet. That doesn’t mean all fruit is bad or even that all alcohol and purine-rich foods have the same effect. Like all parts of health and nutrition, there are nuances we need to consider to create optimal health.

That’s why I’m so excited to take a deep dive into the topic of uric acid with my friend and colleague Dr. David Perlmutter. Dr.Perlmutter is a Board-Certified Neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. He serves on the Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He is the author of Grain Brain among others, and his new book, Drop Acid was just released. Dr. Perlmutter received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and The Journal of Applied Nutrition.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• What is uric acid and how does it affect our health? (5:30 / 2:00) 
• The impact of fructose consumption on our physiology (11:45 / 8:10) 
• The differences between fructose and glucose (19:20 / 16:29) 
• Why high fructose corn syrup is used in so many foods (21:13 / 17:40) 
• The three sources of uric acid (22:57 / 19:23) 
• Fructose consumption, uric acid, and gut health (28:19 / 23:43) 
• How to eat to reduce uric acid (33:54 / 28:52) 
• Medications that increase uric acid (47:07 / 42:04)  
• Uric acid and Alzheimer’s (50:28 / 45:28) 
• Heavy metals, supplements, sleep, exercise, and uric acid (54:12 / 49:14)

Get Dr. Perlmutter’s new book, Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid—The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar and Achieving Extraordinary Health here.

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Between 20 and 30 percent of all doctor visits are initiated due to lack of energy, or chronic fatigue. It is a common problem that plagues so many of us. Often we don’t realize that the last thing we want to do—exercise—could be an easy solution to increasing our energy levels. When we create stress in the body from exercise or other stressors, also called hormesis, we can actually build back stronger as the body heals and repairs.

In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about all the things we can do to improve our energy levels. We also talk about how caffeine and sugar in your diet impact energy, as well as answer questions from our community about the value of napping, if MCT oil increases energy, and why fruit juice is not a great choice.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Mitopure.

Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Three things we can do to improve our energy levels (4:37 / 00:50)
• Three things that zap your energy (8:17 / 4:29) 
• Steps to evaluate chronic fatigue (12:34 / 7:02) 
• How to reduce fatigue and increase energy (15:37 /11:43)
• Evaluating caffeine consumption and if it works for you (18:24 / 14:17) 
• Why blood sugar management is important for optimal energy (20:42 / 16:49) 
• What I do to support my energy level (27:22 / 23:25)
• Questions from our community (39:26 / 35:37) 

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Our thoughts have a profound physiological effect on the body and can either help or hinder the healing process. Even just thinking about a negative experience can set off a cascade of physiological events in the body just as if it’s happening right now—the mind-body connection is truly that powerful.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Emily Fletcher, and Dr. Leonard Calabrese about why our thoughts influence our physiology and what we can do to improve our health, even when we feel we are stuck. Once we are aware of our thoughts and learn to retrain our brains, using such techniques as meditation to break the conditioning process, we see substantial changes in health. 

Dr. Joe Dispenza’s passion can be found at the intersection of the latest findings from the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics, where he explores the science behind spontaneous remissions. He uses that knowledge to teach people how to heal their bodies of health conditions, make significant changes in their lives, and evolve their consciousness. Since 2010, he has partnered with scientists and universities to perform extensive research on the effects that meditation has on the brain and body. He and his team have also studied gene expression, protein regulation, immune response, neurotransmitter changes, telomere length, and variations in bioactive cellular metabolic particles in novice and advanced meditators.

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva, the creator of the Ziva Technique, and regarded as a leading expert in meditation for high performers. She is also the author of Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance.

Dr. Leonard Calabrese is a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and vice chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. He is the director of the RJ Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic and holds joint appointments in the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Wellness Institute. He has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the advancements of immunology and wellness.

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Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.

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Food and racism are heavily tied, and the history of fast food franchises in America is one of many examples. In order to continue the fight for civil rights and name ongoing social and racial disparities, it’s important to learn how we got here. I’m excited to dig into all this with Marcia Chatelain. 

Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, she teaches about women’s and girls’ history, as well as black capitalism. Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians, civil rights organizations, communities, and the fast food industry. In 2021, Marcia received the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Hagley Prize in Business History, and the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award for Franchise. Marcia has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The history of African American owned fast food franchises (6:01 / 3:00) 
• African American food culture, access, health, and economics (11:24 / 6:30) 
• The food industry targets marginalized communities toward junk food consumption (16:44 / 9:30) 
• Making the healthy choice the easy choice (18:19 / 15:20)  
• Social determinants of health and necessary policy change (24:55 / 20:50) 
• The true cost of the food we eat (34:22 / 29:00)
• The dark side of corporate social responsibility spending (36:49 / 31:25) 
• Overcoming the power of corporate lobbying (39:07 / 33:46) 
• Food sovereignty and traditional foods (47:16 / 41:30)  
• Improving societal systems and institutions (54:37 / 49:20) 

Learn more about Marcia Chatelain here and get a copy of her book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, here.

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An astonishing seventy percent of cancer is diet-related. When it comes to treating cancer, conventional medicine is good at cutting it, burning it, and poisoning it, but many doctors fail to treat the root cause. Functional Medicine empowers patients and practitioners to optimize health by addressing the root causes of disease.

In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, about the cancer epidemic, including the biggest cancer risks. 

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30+ million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Five things we can do to reduce our cancer risk (4:08 / 00:56) 
• The link between sugar and cancer (10:39 / 6:44) 
• Emerging diagnostic tests and treatment options (12:56 / 9:24) 
• My approach to handling a cancer diagnosis (15:35 / 12:10) 
• Case study of a prostate cancer patient (18:10 / 14:56) 
• Questions from our community on reducing risk, cancer education resources, foods to fight cancer, and more (24:20 / 19:25) 
• Recap of how to reduce your cancer risk (32:06 / 27:34) 

Mentioned in this episode: 

Environmental Working Group

Dr. Ralph Moss (Cancer Decisions)

The Cancer Code

Eat to Beat Disease

Anticancer: A New Way of Life

The Longevity Diet

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Sugar lights up the addiction center in our brains, just like heroin and cocaine. Yet many of us consume more sugar than we are aware of because it’s lurking in so many foods that we would never expect. The average person consumes 152 pounds of it per year! Sugar is not just responsible for an increased waistline but also impacts our metabolic health, immune systems, mental health, and more.

In today’s episode, I talk with Keegan Allen and Tom Hopper, Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai, and Dr. Casey Means about why sugar addiction is so detrimental to our health and what we can do about it.

Keegan Allen is an American actor, musician, photographer, and author. He’s known for his main role as Toby Cavanaugh on the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars. Allen’s passion in his younger years tended towards photography, cinematography, and other roles behind the camera.

Tom Hopper is an English actor. He has appeared as Sir Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in Netflix’s new show The Umbrella Academy.

Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai is a double board-certified physician in Obesity Medicine and Psychiatry. She is the Founding Director of Stanford University’s Metabolic Psychiatry program and Silicon Valley Metabolic Psychiatry, a new center in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on optimizing brain health by integrating low carb nutrition, comprehensive psychiatric care, and treatment of obesity with associated metabolic disease.

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Means’ perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. 

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What if you had a tool that helped you not only make better health decisions but also gave you real-time feedback on how your body uniquely reacts to any kind of food? Thanks to continuous glucose monitors this is something we’ll all be able to take advantage of in the near future. Levels is one company that’s been spearheading the field of wearable technology, providing an incredible amount of information on blood sugar responses and metabolic individuality. I talk to Dr. Casey Means about what we can learn from the 51 million data points Levels has already gathered on blood glucose reactions. 

Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Means’ perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. 

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.

Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. 

Thrive Market is an online membership-based grocery store that makes eating well convenient and more affordable. Join today at thrivemarket.com/hyman to receive an extra 40% off your first order and a free gift.

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Here are more of the details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): 

• The leading driver of mortality in the Western world (5:52 / 3:46) 
• The type of foods that are driving cardio and metabolic disease (8:38 / 5:03)  
• Learnings from 51 million continuous glucose monitor readings (12:28 / 8:53)
• Foods commonly believed to be healthy that actually spike blood sugar (20:39 / 17:04)
• How various food combinations affect blood sugar (21:16 / 17:44) 
• Walking after eating can lower glucose levels (23:32 / 20:00) 
• Foods we should never eat and surprising foods that spike glucose levels (27:27 / 22:07)
• Foods that don’t spike blood sugar but should still be avoided (44:22/ 38:52) 
• How food combinations, sequencing, and when we eat influence glucose levels (51:33 / 46:03) 
• What are normal and optimal blood sugar levels? (1:06:34 / 1:01:01) 

Learn more about Dr. Means’ work at https://www.levelshealth.com/. Levels is currently running a closed beta program. To skip the line and participate in their early access program today, visit levels.link/HYMAN.

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In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on thyroid and Hashimotos with Dr. Natasha Fallahi. 

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