Watch me on the Katie Couric show as I discuss Food and Lifestyle Prescriptions for Common Health Problems. For common health problems, there are often simple diet and lifestyle solutions that get to the root of the problem without the need for medication, which often does little more than mask the symptoms. What we eat, [...]
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ONE OF EVERY TWO of you have a deadly disease that’s making you fat sick and will kill you and 90 percent of you don’t even know you have it. What’s worse is your doctor’s not trained how to find it and they are not even looking for it. This problem will cost us $3.5 [...]
OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SHARED with many of you my passion for an emerging health care model based on systems medicine – functional medicine — that can reduce the global burden of chronic disease, improve patient outcomes, create healthy communities, and avert an economic crisis from escalating health care costs. Welcome to my first e-newsletter created [...]
IMAGINE BEING THE PARENT of a young child who is not acting normally and being told by your doctor that your child has autism, that there is no known cause, and there is no known treatment except, perhaps, some behavioral therapy. That is exactly what Jackson’s parents were told as their 22-month old son regressed [...]
READY TO START ACHIEVING UltraWellness by applying the concepts of Functional Medicine—groundbreaking scientific principles that treat the cause of illness, not just its symptoms—to your own health? Dr. Mark Hyman’s bestselling books and empowering DVD’s have informed hundreds of thousands of people seeking lifelong wellness and vitality. Paired with the vitamins and other supplements he [...]
WELCOME BACK TO my series of blogs on my book, The UltraMind Solution. Download a free sneak preview. Now for today’s blog … I have some bad news and some good news for you about your brain. The bad news is that we live in a poisoned world that damages our brains. The good news [...]
INFLAMMATION IS A “HOT” TOPIC IN MEDICINE. It appears connected to almost every known chronic disease — from heart disease to cancer, diabetes to obesity, autism to dementia, and even depression. Other inflammatory diseases such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, and autoimmune disease are increasing at dramatic rates. As physicians we are trained to shut off [...]
COULD SOMETHING AS SIMPLE as a quick and easy blood test save your life? Absolutely. It is called a C-reactive protein test, and it measures the degree of HIDDEN inflammation in your body. Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical, because almost every modern disease is caused or affected [...]
RECENTLY, I SPOKE on a panel for PBS TV at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) convention in Boston. The topic was dementia. There was a woman with mild cognitive impairment on the panel. Her condition is sort of like pre-Alzheimer’s disease. Everyone on the panel — including the Harvard neurologist — agreed that [...]
ARE YOU TIRED and worn out? Do you have sore muscles, fatigue, and brain fog? If so, you might have metabolic burnout! Imagine if you could find a way to tune up your metabolism, increase your energy levels, think clearly, and feel less achy. Imagine if you could prevent diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia. Imagine [...]
UNTIL THE LATE 1960′S THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY BELIEVED that autism was caused by “bad mothering”. Today, most people — and most of the medical community — believes that Autism is a genetic brain disorder. I’m here to tell you that neither one of these statements is true. Think about it. Rates of autism have skyrocketed [...]