Author Archive | Dr Mark Hyman

Raising Healthy Eaters – Part II: A Journey Throughout Your Baby’s Lifecycle

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A baby nursing at a mother’s breast… is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.  -David Suzuki In Part I of the Raising Healthy Eaters series we talked about flexibility and guidelines.  In Part II we continue the journey providing guidelines and hints for introducing your baby to the art of healthy eating. As [...]

Raising Healthy Eaters – Part I

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As a father of two, I have had my share of parenting trials and tribulations.  Raising children is the hardest yet most rewarding job I have had. What I have come to realize as a parent is that there is a great deal of letting go and going with the flow. Flexibility is the secret [...]

Soy-Nut Pancakes with Strawberry-Banana Sauce

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You can add fresh fruit to the batter and try whipped natural nut butter with a touch of honey in it as a topping. Nutritional Analysis Per 3-pancake serving: 221 Calories, 14 g Fat, 1.7 g Sat, 53 mg Chol, 5 g Fiber, 14 g Protein, 17 g Carb, 79 mg Sodium Per 1⁄2 cup [...]

Detox Made Safe and Simple

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With the holiday season right around the corner, there is no better time than the present to fortify our diet and cement healthy eating.  Ironically, while healthy eating is our birthright, for many of us it seems like taking the plunge into eating a whole foods-based diet is the equivalent to traveling to some distant [...]

I Began to Fine-Tune My Ability to Listen to My Own Instincts

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In 1997, I saw my doctor for my annual physical. I mentioned, in passing, that I’d noticed some lumps down the sides of my neck. They weren’t obvious, painful or even uncomfortable, so I was just mildly curious about them. My doctor ordered blood tests, and within a couple of days, she called me with [...]

I Am a Skinny Fat Person

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I am a physician assistant at the VA Medical Center in Dermatology. I am also a person with Metabolic syndrome, successfully managed for 13 years with diet and exercise. I try to use what I have learned to help my patients. There is an epidemic of diabesity in the VA population. We need to catch [...]

I Want to Share my Own WOW Story

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Today I want to share my own WOW story – I call it sick and tired of being sick and tired. The changes that have happened in my life are why we are here at Thrive Lancaster… to create wows in many more lives. Born weighing in at 10 lb.10 oz.  my mom always made [...]

Disease and Illness Doesn’t Define the Person

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I am a 31, otherwise healthy, woman…living with Lupus SLE. For 10 years I was misdiagnosed, in and out of the hospital, with no sense of relief. Fast forward to 2010 when yet again, I demanded a new doctor. Nobody was listening to me. After more tests it was determined that what I had thought [...]

My Body Went Haywire

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I had 3 kids and after I had them my body went haywire. My adrenals, thyroid, hormones, etc were all wrong. I just never felt good. I maybe felt good two days out of the month. I have tried to change how I eat and do some exercises. It has been a really rough road [...]

I Went from 275 to 253 Pounds in 4 Weeks

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My brother and I both have type 2 diabetes. He started the program over the summer lost 30 lbs and is off all meds. For my birthday he bought me the BSS book in April. I did not pick it up until the end of September. I read it and also bought the audio book [...]

I Suffered Pain in My Joints Without any Known Reason

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About five years ago one summer morning I woke up and felt as if my fingers were out of their alignment. Soon this sensation increased and started painfully reaching all joints of my body. I thought I had arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or some other disease I did not know what. I saw my doctor, took [...]

I Went Green and Overhauled my Diet

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In 2008 I was taking Claritin for allergies, Levothyroxine for hypothyroidism, acid reducers and PPI’s for reflux. I was also taking many medications for chronic cornea infections and dry eyes. I was experiencing menstrual migraines,daily silent migraines, and had extensive gum surgery, my gallbladder removed,and I was shedding hair faster than I could vacuum it [...]