“Dr. Hyman, I’m so confused about coffee,” writes this week’s house call. “One day I read that it’s so bad for me and the next it’s good for me. Why all the conflicting information?” Let’s face it: Americans love their coffee, which is the number one source of antioxidants in our diet – which actually […]
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“Dr. Hyman, my father has heart disease, his father did too, and I’m obviously concerned about my own heart,” writes this week’s house call. “What can I do to prevent heart disease?” Most importantly, please know while genetics contributes to some degree, many other factors completely within your control can contribute to or reverse heart […]
“My doctor says my LDL cholesterol is really high and he’s concerned,” is this week’s house call question. “Now you’re saying that I should eat more fat, which should improve my cholesterol. I thought fat was the last thing I should be eating with high cholesterol.” I know how confusing cholesterol and dietary fat has […]
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, […]
If you are a post-menopausal women with high cholesterol, your doctor will almost certainly recommend cholesterol lowering medication or statins. And it just might kill you. A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that statins increase the risk of getting diabetes by 71 percent in post-menopausal women. Since diabetes is a major […]
Last week I began a discussion about a modern epidemic, a deadly disease that one of every two of you have, a disease that’s making you fat, sick, and will kill you, but 90 percent of you don’t even know you have it. This disease is diabesity, the continuum of abnormal biology that ranges from […]
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 […]
Thank you for Joining Me for the UltraSimple Challenge Webinar! During this orientation webinar you’ll discover: A simple daily habit that will keep you motivated and help you stick to the plan … How to automatically eat the right foods and avoid the wrong foods … Why one man’s medicine is another man’s poison … […]
Join Me on Tuesday, September 27th at 8pm! That’s the day I am holding a webinar that will show you how to transform your life in only 7 days. You see, we are getting ready to re-launch a program called the UltraSimple Diet Challenge in which previous participants have achieved incredible improvements in their mind, […]
Thank you for Joining Me for the UltraSimple Challenge Webinar! During this orientation webinar you’ll discover: A simple daily habit that will keep you motivated and help you stick to the plan … How to automatically eat the right foods and avoid the wrong foods … Why one man’s medicine is another man’s poison … […]
We KNOW that eating that cupcake, drinking that soda, or eating that food we are allergic to isn’t good for us, but we do it anyway. It’s as though someone, or something, has commandeered our brain and we are helpless. Then we blame ourselves, ridden with guilt, feeling that we just didn’t have enough willpower […]
Thank you for Joining Me for the UltraSimple Challenge Webinar! During this orientation webinar you’ll discover: A simple daily habit that will keep you motivated and help you stick to the plan … How to automatically eat the right foods and avoid the wrong foods … Why one man’s medicine is another man’s poison … […]