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Mark Hyman, M.D. is a practicing physician and an internationally recognized authority in the field of Functional Medicine -- a revolution in 21st century medicine that provides a new road map for navigating the territory of health and illness. He is founder of The UltraWellness Center where he treats patients using this new model in his medical practice.

You can learn more about Dr. Hyman's exhaustive work to change healthcare as well as his program for achieving UltraWellness by following him on Twitter, watching his videos on YouTube, connecting with him on LinkedIn, or becoming a fan on Facebook.

Dr. Hyman is the author of multiple New York Times best-sellers including The UltraMind Solution, The UltraSimple Diet, UltraMetabolism, and the weekly UltraWellness Newsletter in which he provides insight into how you can integrate functional medicine into your life and achieve the state of UltraWellness -- which is nothing less than vital mental and physical health, optimal weight, and a renewed lease on life.

He is also Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine; is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington DC; on the Board of Advisors and faculty for the "Food as Medicine" training program; and is a part of Memhet Oz's HealthCorps. In each of these capacities he actively advocates for fundamental changes in healthcare -- changes that takes into account diet, lifestyle, and personalized treatment based on the paradigm of functional medicine as essential components for medical education and practice.

Blog Entries by Mark Hyman, MD

10 Rules to Eat Safely for Life (and What to Remove From Your Kitchen)

217 Comments | Posted February 4, 2012 | 2/4/12

Every day you have to navigate a toxic nutritional landscape. You have to hunt and gather in a food desert. You have to survive the American supermarket and dodge the dangers of industrial food. The good news is that if you follow 10 simple rules you can eat...

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New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered

84 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 1/31/12

Last year my friend Chelsea Clinton recommended I read a book by the former head of the National Health Service in Great Britain, called Turning the World Upside Down -- about what we can learn from poor countries in the developing world about putting patients and communities at...

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Paula Deen: How She Can Help Reverse The Diabetes Epidemic

185 Comments | Posted January 24, 2012 | 1/24/12

In a spate of recent media appearances, Paula Deen, the unapologetic queen of culinary excess and indulgence would have us believe that she didn't eat herself into type 2 diabetes -- that it was just Russian Roulette. Genes do matter, but just a little. Sorry Paula, but type 2 diabetes,...

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Why Women Should Stop Their Cholesterol-Lowering Medication

217 Comments | Posted January 21, 2012 | 1/21/12

If you are a post-menopausal woman 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...

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8 Steps to Reversing Diabesity

Posted November 19, 2011 | 11/19/11

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...

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Fifty Percent of Americans Suffer From This Silent Killer

Posted November 15, 2011 | 11/15/11

One of every two of you have a deadly disease that's making you sick and will kill you, and 90 percent of you don't even know you have it.

What's worse is your doctor is not trained how to find it, and they are not even looking for...

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Dinner Is A Date With The Doctor: 5 Asian Superfoods

Posted October 29, 2011 | 10/29/11

Medicine doesn't always come in a pill. In fact, some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or "farmacy." Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine. In Asia food and medicine are often...

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Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins

Posted October 20, 2011 | 10/20/11

Do vitamins kill people?

How many people have died from taking vitamins?

Should you stop your vitamins?

It depends. To be exact, it depends on the quality of the science, and the very nature of scientific research. It is very hard to know things exactly...

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Eat Your Medicine: Food as Pharmacology

Posted October 18, 2011 | 10/18/11

What you put at the end of your fork is more powerful medicine than anything you will find at the bottom of a pill bottle. Food is the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic disease, which will account for more than 50 million deaths and cost the global economy...

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Back to School: How to Raise Healthier, Smarter, Fitter Children

Posted September 10, 2011 | 9/10/11

Schools have become hazardous health zones full of empty calories, junk food and stripped-down physical education programs that are cultivating a nation of fatter, dumber and more aggressive kids. In the film, "The Social Network," Mark Zuckerberg tells his friend that there are more geniuses in China than...

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6 Ways I Changed My Life And How You Can Change Yours

Posted August 18, 2011 | 8/18/11

I admit it. I was addicted to sugar, caffeine, and adrenaline. I am a recovering dopamine addict, and it almost killed me. Twenty years ago, a freshly minted doctor, I swallowed the propaganda that doctors are invincible, that "MD" stood for "medical deity." During my training, one of...

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New Research Finds Diabetes Can Be Reversed

Posted August 7, 2011 | 8/7/11

I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my sister on her journey through (and hopefully to the other side of) cancer. Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens all had large diabetes sections offering support for a "diabetes lifestyle" -- glucose monitors, lancets, blood pressure...

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Statins May Cause Diabetes, New Study Says

Posted June 21, 2011 | 6/21/11

If all doctors followed the latest cholesterol treatment guidelines and all their patients took their prescribed statin medication, there would be 3.5 million more diabetics in America. But wait! There is another pill (or injection, actually) that has been shown to reduce the risk of diabetes. And it's only about...

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The Not-So-Sweet Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup

Posted May 16, 2011 | 5/16/11

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
--Harry Truman

The current media debate about the benefits (or lack of harm) of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in our diet misses the obvious. The average American increased their consumption of HFCS (mostly from sugar sweetened drinks and processed...

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Flu Shots: Panacea or Propaganda?

Posted March 7, 2011 | 3/7/11

Though in some cases I am pro-vaccine, I am not pro-flu vaccine, because its effectiveness remains unproven and its safety in question.

The importance of vaccines in advancing public health cannot be overstated. Last year, after the earthquake in Haiti, I cared for a man dying of tetanus. There...

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Grass-Fed Fish?

Posted February 26, 2011 | 2/26/11

The Romans conquered the Andalusia region of southern Spain two centuries before the birth of Christ. They thrived on its fertile lands, rivers and valleys. At its peak, Rome had 20,000 citizens, while at its peak, the city of Cordova in Andalusia, had over 500,000 citizens and was the largest...

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Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes?

Posted February 12, 2011 | 2/12/11

It's confirmed. Dairy products and sugar cause acne.

As our sugar and dairy consumption has increased over the last 100 years so has the number of people with acne. We now have over 17 million acne sufferers, costing our health care system $1 billion a year, and...

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Sugar Addiction? It Might Be Genetic

Posted February 6, 2011 | 2/6/11

We are all programmed to like sugar. New research shows some are genetically much more prone to sugar and food addiction than others. I have observed this in my patients, but now it is becoming clear why some have more trouble kicking the sugar habit than others.

As...

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7 Tips to Fix Your Cholesterol Without Medication

Posted January 29, 2011 | 1/29/11

The singular focus on treating cholesterol as a means to prevent heart attacks is leading to the deaths of millions of people because the real underlying cause of the majority of heart disease is not being diagnosed or treated by most physicians.

For example, I recently saw...

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Wild? Farmed? What Fish Should We Eat?

Posted January 22, 2011 | 1/22/11

If I am confused about what fish to eat and have spent my life studying nutrition and environmental science, then I imagine most people are confused. I am left with so many questions and had almost given up trying to figure it out. Until I met Tim O'Shea,...

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