Dr. Mark Hyman talks through what he actually eats while traveling, sharing his strategies for staying healthy on the road. He covers his meals and the practical choices that keep his diet consistent despite a busy schedule.
When I look around and I'm out at different events with you and other things like that, the first question that people have is, Dr. Hyman, what the heck should I eat? The second question that they ask is, Dr. Hyman, what the heck do you eat? And everybody's so curious. So I want to talk about today. This is a day that you're traveling, you're in LA, you're doing press for your new book, which is outtodayfoodfixbook.com, what'd.
You eat on a day like this? Okay, well, I woke up, early enough, so I had to go to a TV show this morning and I woke up early and I used my sophisticated technology, my iPhone, to Google a place to eat in my neighborhood where I was staying at a friend's house. There was a good restaurant and so I walked like 20 minutes to this really good restaurant and I looked at the menu before it and I had red baked eggs, which is a lot of vegetables and baked eggs and I had oat milk latte. And that was it.
And what time of day was that?
That was like 7:30 in the morning.
And that's pretty early. Do you normally eat that early?
It depends. I knew I had a very busy day today and I had to have some energy. So I did. But sometimes I don't, I do longer fasts. And then I had for lunch, I had a salad with grass-fed steak, little bits of it, avocado, kale, I had some banana chips with salsa, someone brought them for me from town, and I'm going to go to a great restaurant for dinner. I'm usually pretty Focus even when I travel. And I think, you know, people kind of fall apart and say, well, when I travel, it's hard. It depends. Like, you know, I was in Des Moines, Iowa, and I was struggling. I went to the hotel, like, can I have some vegetables? And they gave me, like, green beans, which are from a can, with brown sugar sauce on it. It was terrible. But then I was like, wait a minute. I think, you know, Asian restaurants always have vegetables. So I'm like, where's the local Chinese restaurant? And I went there before my PBS show. and I found this amazing place and I had Chinese broccoli and all these vegetables and like really delicious food. So I'm like pretty good hunter and gatherer when it comes to figuring out what to do on the road. And also, I have a bag full of food. So in my backpack, I have enough food for a day. I have turkey jerky, I have grass-fed beef jerky, I have nuts, I have nut butter packets, I have bars. So I have all kinds of stuff that keeps me going if I can't get what I need.
