Martha Stewart Reviews The UltraMind Solution by Dr. Hyman - Part 1

[Tk] what if you could cure depression, dementia, chronic stress, and a myriad of other debilitating conditions without ever taking a pill? What if you were told mind diseases don't exist at all? Well, it's a pretty serious claim and one that my next guest adamantly stands behind. He's the founder and medical director of the Ultra Wellness Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. a pioneering facility for functional medicine, and is the author of a brand new book, the UltraMind Solution. Please welcome Dr. Mark Hyman. Welcome.

Thank you for having me, Mark.

Now, we know Dr. Hyman, Mark, because he is a regular contributor to our Body and Soul magazine. And you really do believe that mental disorders don't really exist as we Envision them.

That's right. You know, even though one in three people in America suffer from a broken brain, you know, whether it's depression or dementia, ADD or autism, they're just like brain fog. Right. Most doctors look for the fog. Right. A lot of us have. Doctors look for the symptoms but don't treat the causes, which are actually in the body. Like, for example, if you had depression, it could be chronic mercury toxicity or a food allergy. I'm buying the stock market. Stock market. The loss of a loved one, right? It could be a lot of different things. And we're in a tremendous time of depression, anxiety right now. But you have to look for the causes. Like this woman who came to see me, she was 23, and she had severe depression since she was 13 and was on Zoloft simply by getting off.

The food allergens she was eating.

So she was allergic to foods.

That's right. And her parents had never tested her.

Never tested her, never knew about it. And getting on the right nutrients, which she needed, which was fish oil and folic acid, not only did her depression go away, and she felt happier than she ever had in her life, but she lost 40 pounds. Or like a little boy who had autism came to see me, who couldn't talk or connect with his family, and simply by getting the toxins out of his body and giving him high dose of folate, B6 and B12, he was able to talk again and go to a normal school.

So all you have to do-- At.

What age did the autism-- Start at two and a half. At two and a half. Yeah. So all you have to do to have an ultra mind is to get rid of the bad stuff and put.

In the good stuff. Your body does the rest. Ultra mind. Now, we have in front of us Some things that we actually go to, that we go and buy.

That's right.

That really are very detrimental to our good ultramind, right? That's right. So let's go through these.

That's right, a lot of the damage is our brain. So if you want to get rid of the brain damage, you have to.

Get rid of the bad stuff.

These are the four bad things. You know, it's funny, what we buy in supermarkets in America are all drugs, the top four things. Caffeine. Caffeine. Sugar, frosted flakes, alcohol, here's a Cosmo, and cigarettes. Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and sugar. All damage your brain.

Now we use them to-- Let's drop.

These on the floor, everybody. Well, use them to keep us up.

Or put us down. But they say that sometimes coffee is good for you.

A little bit. It's just a little bit. But it's-- we overdo it.

We overdo it. OK, all of this is overdo. That's right.

These can actually just go away.

That's right.

Those you don't need.

Those we don't-- nobody needs those.

That's right. And these we don't need either.

Right. And that-- no?

That's right. So the processed food, I've seen-- well, I've seen little kids eating cereal like that. Oh, I can't see that. And they can't focus and pay They pay attention to school, and when you get them off that stuff, they wake up, they focus, they pay attention, and.

All their physical problems go away. And do you think that, I mean, there's such a prevalence now of ADD and so much autism, we don't wanna.

Get into every disease, but there is an awful lot of this stuff that- that's right.

You- take away all the junk food and the processed food, and you give.

Them whole real food, and these kids.

Off- Notice I did not throw away the cosmopolitan. A little bit of alcohol's okay. I like tequila once in a while. No, but on the challenge, this detox week that we're doing right now for Body and Soul, No alcohol, no sugar, no sugar. And of course no smoking. I mean that's been a no-no forever. But it really-- what I always say is if someone's standing on your foot.

Your whole life, you don't know what it feels like until they get off. And you don't know how good you can feel. So just give it a break. And we also have a lot of trans fats and high fructose corn syrup that are hidden in foods. Here's salad dressing for example that has.

High fructose corn syrup in it. So don't-- yeah. So make your own. Make your own with olive oil and vinegar. That's right.

Or lemon juice. Absolutely.

Yes, processed meats.

Yeah, processed meats, deli meats have trans fats and nitrates.

People think a turkey sandwich is really good, but it's really-- It can be if it's a whole fresh turkey.

Yeah, organic turkey, roast yourself, roast some breast of turkey, slice it up, give that to your kids, not that. That's right, and then there's food allergens that people have, don't even know they're eating. We are eating a lot of gluten and dairy, which actually produce toxic effects and inflammation in the brain. And I've seen people with ADD and depression getting off of gluten, and dairy, and those things clear up. And we also have toxic metals we eat, for example, swordfish and tuna and unfiltered water, which contain heavy metals that poison the brain. I've treated patients who've had lifelong depression by getting rid of mercury toxicity. So we should not be eating any swordfish.

Not too much, once in a while.

But it's pretty high in mercury. But tuna fish out of a can is not.

Not so great, I mean minimal.

Pregnant women and children shouldn't eat it. Why should the rest of us eat it? Cats can't even eat it. You know, these all look great, strawberries, peaches, and celery, but these are among the highest pesticide containing fruits and vegetables.

And pesticides are toxic.

If they're not organically grown.

That's right, so eat organic, grown pesticides, and those things are-- and people don't understand, a beautiful strawberry can really be because it's sprayed so much.

That's right. And it absorbs and holds the bad ingredients. Right, most people don't realize that pesticides are actually the nerve gases they use in the war. that after the war they used to kill the nerve system in pests. That's why they're neurotoxins. And you know, the key to, you know, people ask me, what is an Ultramind? Well, it's an optimal state of well-being. It's not surviving, it's thriving. It's what you want.

So your book really talks about all of this. That's right. And this is a really, really great book. And I think it's number 20 on Amazon today.

It is, and people can get a sneak preview at ultramind.com, right?

Everyone in the audience, by the way, is getting a copy of this to read and understand. When we come back, Dr. Hyman's going to lay out his plan for the Ultramind Solution. So don't go away. Great.