Mark Hyman > Quotes

“In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“Today, two slices of whole-wheat bread can raise your blood sugar more than two tablespoons of table sugar can.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

“First, when you try to restrict calories and exercise more, your body is hardwired to perceive a starvation situation. That makes you tired (so you move less and conserve energy) and hungry (so you eat more), and it slows down your metabolism (so you don’t die!). This “eat less, exercise more” formula is not too successful for most people. It can work for a short time, certainly, but less than 10 percent of people lose weight and keep it off for a year;4 you will almost always rebound and gain back the weight. Second, when you eat carbs and sugar, insulin spikes and your blood sugar drops. The insulin drives most of the available fuel in your bloodstream into fat cells, especially the fat cells around your middle, otherwise known as belly fat. So your body is starved of fuel, and this stimulates your brain5 to make you eat more.6 You could have a year’s worth of stored energy in your fat tissue and yet feel like you are starving. The only thing that can stop this vicious cycle is eating a lot of fat and cutting out the refined carbs and sugar. A high-fat, low-carb diet leads to a faster metabolism and sustained weight loss.”
― Mark Hyman, Eat Fat Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

“How we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, our exposure to environmental and food-based toxins, and the structural violence or “obesogenic environment” that influences these factors are what is truly driving our diabesity epidemic.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE: THE FUTURE My goal in medicine is to help provide a way to navigate and sort through health information based on an entirely new way of thinking about health and disease. I want to find the right treatment for each person, regardless of what that treatment might be. If a medicine is the best treatment, I will choose that; if a change in diet, supplements, herbs, or lifestyle works best, then I will choose that. We must learn to treat the person, not the disease; the system, not just the symptoms. This is personalized medicine, the medicine of the future.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“Thinking the way you’ve always thought and doing things you’ve always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

“The way modern medicine operates is like trying to diagnose what’s wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes instead of looking under the hood.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“The average American child has consumed 7½ pounds of chemicals by the age of five.”
― Mark Hyman, Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

“And there are just a few “ingredients” needed to make a healthy human—real, whole, fresh food, nutrients (vitamins and minerals), light, water, air, sleep, movement, rhythm, love, connection, meaning, and purpose.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“We all have different needs for food, vitamins, rest, exercise, stress tolerance, or ability to handle toxins.”
― Mark Hyman, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First

“Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.”
― Mark Hyman, Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

“Our bread is not what it used to be. It is more of a Frankenfood, a by-product of industrial agriculture or “super-starch and super-gluten.” Combine that with the damage our guts have suffered from our diet, environment, lifestyle, and overuse of antibiotics, acid blockers, and anti-inflammatories, and you have the perfect storm for gluten intolerance.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

“Read ingredients lists and don’t eat anything with the word “hydrogenated” on the label.”
― Mark Hyman, Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

“We know that food is a medicine, perhaps the most powerful drug on the planet with the power to cause or cure most diseases.”
― Mark Hyman

“Real, whole, fresh, unadulterated, unmodified foods: Those must be the starting point.”
― Mark Hyman, Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

“Negative lifestyle choices and high job stress led me down a path of alcohol and nicotine abuse, and eventually open heart surgery.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

“This starts with personal action and community organization. Creating a healthier world is a revolutionary act, one you can start right now.”
― Mark Hyman

“We now know—because it has been scientifically proven—that sugar is more powerfully addictive than alcohol, cocaine, or even heroin (and if you’re thinking about going for diet soda instead, take note: Artificial sweeteners may be more addictive than regular sugar).”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

“The risk-averse are rarely emboldened by data.”
― Mark Hyman, Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

“Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup has been linked to cancer.20 The World Health Organization released a statement that glyphosate (Roundup) is a “probable carcinogen” in humans.21”
― Mark Hyman, Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

“It is a veritable revolving door of jobs between the USDA and Big Ag and Big Food. Americans should insist on the establishment of a new Department of Food run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which is paying for the consequences of harmful dietary recommendations through Medicare and Medicaid. In”
― Mark Hyman, Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

“addition to these dietary changes, you also need a full complement of vitamins and minerals, and you may need to individually correct specifi c deficiencies, including deficiencies in chromium, biotin, vitamin D,21 magnesium,22 zinc, alpha lipoic acid,23 and omega-3 fats.24”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution: The Bestselling Programme for Preventing Diabetes, Losing Weight and Feeling Great

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”
― Mark Hyman, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

“ways to boost testosterone naturally are to eat good fats, including saturated fat (all sex hormones are made from cholesterol); engage in stress-reduction practices, such as meditation; and do strength training.”
― Mark Hyman, Young Forever

“also recommend a more comprehensive test called”
― Mark Hyman, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

“1. The average person needs 25 to 40 grams of high-quality protein per meal, depending on”
― Mark Hyman, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

“Here’s where things get interesting. A 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed, Is Sugar as Addictive as Cocaine?, published in the journal Food and Addiction, proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

“10 percent of Americans are deficient in vitamin C and actually have scurvy. More than 90 percent are deficient in omega-3 fats, 80 percent are low in vitamin D, and 45 percent are deficient in magnesium and iron, with folate and zinc not far behind. Lack of these nutrients moves us rapidly down the trajectory of disease and aging.”
― Mark Hyman, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

“HYMAN’S GUT-HEALING SHAKE 1 scoop ImmunoG PRP by NuMedica or SBI Protect (dairy-free) by Orthomolecular Products (bovine immunoglobulins aka colostrum) 1 scoop acacia fiber (a prebiotic) 1 tablespoon pomegranate concentrate (I use Lakewood organic) 1 tablespoon cranberry concentrate (I use Lakewood organic) 1 teaspoon matcha green tea powder (I use Navitas) 1 stick ProbioMax 350 DF by Xymogen (or your favorite high-potency probiotic) 1 scoop collagen powder Blend or mix everything with a cup of water and drink.”
― Mark Hyman, The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World

“The key is to use a healthy, sustainable strategy for weight loss that balances your hormones and brain chemistry and doesn’t put you in a starvation response.”
― Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast