714 Use Food to Heal Your Body with Mark Hyman

This is five minute Friday. Thomas Jefferson said if the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

I am super pumped you guys are here for this special episode with Dr. Mark Hyman. For those that don't know him, he is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic center for Functional Medicine, the Prixer Foundation Chair in Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine and founder of the Ultra Wellness Center. He's also the number one best selling author of 12 books and just came out with a new one called Eat Fat, Get Thin.

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So if someone is listening and they're on some type of medication or they're just feeling like constantly sick, you know something's constantly happening to them.

What do you think is because there's.

So much information online that it's scary.

It's scary, right?

You know these stuff just like looking up anything, googling it and seeing all the nasty photos and just like, yeah, what is an approach that someone should take if they have some challenge that's constantly happening in their health. Should they first analyze the food they're intaking and do like an analysis?

Do you have like a process?

Absolutely, absolutely. It's a great question. So, you know, what I am is a doctor. And what I do is see patients in my office. That's my main job. Yes, I've written a dozen books. Yes, I do a lot of stuff, but that's my main job. Yes. And so I've learned over 30 years of doing this. How to create sustainable, practical programs to help people get from sick to well very quickly. And what I've done, because not everybody can come see me and there aren't that many of us out there yet.

You only have so many hours on.

The day and there's not that many functional medicines. So I've written books and programs to help people operationalize this in their own lives. So eat fat, get thin. And I look, I'm, you know, I could say, you know, do my program, but I'm not. I don't really care what program you do, as long as it's based on the basic principles. And there are a lot of my colleagues who are writing great books about this. It's all, it's all the same information because it's all the same science. And if you're telling the truth, there's only one story here. The truth. Right. And so this effect get then is a great program that I put together to make people have no friction. It's easy, it's very straightforward, 21 days practical goof proof. And it tells you what to eat. And when you get to the end of that, you'll see how you feel. Because Most people in 21 days will change their habits, but they'll also allow their body to reset. It's like putting your body back to its original factory settings. Right. And then if something's left over, then, you know, gee, maybe I need to go deeper. Like if you still don't feel great, maybe you have Lyme disease. Maybe I've heavy metal poisoning. Maybe your thyroid's not working. Maybe you have a parasite. Maybe, you know, like you could be eating the perfect diet but still feel bad.

Do that 21 days first.

Yeah, but most, 80% of the time.

You, you're going to cure yourself.

80%. I mean, 80% of the time this works for people. And then the 20% who have to get extra help, they need to come see somebody.

And the body's pretty incredible in how it can heal itself very quickly once you change habits.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. We did the survey of a thousand people who did this. I mean, they lost weight. Yes. And they lost inches. Yes. And that's all impressive. And their blood sugar dropped 20 points and their blood pressure 10 points. But the thing that really matters to me is I have everybody fill out what I call the FLC quiz. You know what that is? That's when you feel like crap. Okay, so it's a quiz. How do you have, like, you know, do you have your bloating? Do you have asthma, Headaches? Can you sleep? Like, joint pain, muscle pain? What's your mood? Are you depressed? Like, so you fill this whole score, and 0 to 4 for every symptom and you get a score, they do one before and after. And now the before and after score, There was a 69% reduction in all symptoms from all diseases. Whoa. Because you don't have to treat everything individually. If you put in the right information, the body knows what to do.

Wow.

Right? So the information in food is so powerful. If you figure out what to eat, you don't have to worry about how much. You don't have to count fat grams, carbs, calories, nothing. I don't do that. I don't. Sure. If you're off by 100 calories a day, you're gonna gain, like, 50 pounds in 30 years. Right. You can't. You can't do it by willpower. You have to use science. And low glycemic food, like low sugar food, is. Is really powerful. It's magical. The thing that I think is driving so many of our economic and social ills is our food system to kind of list, what are the policies that would really radically change things, not just in America, but around the world, if we became the beacon for this? And I met with the surgeon General a couple of days ago, and he asked me to come to Washington to help change and shape this policy. So the things that matter are, you know, ending food subsidy, ending agricultural subsidies for commodity products like corn, soy, and wheat that go into all our processed industrial food. Subsidizing fruits and vegetables and things that actually promote health.

Yeah.

Ending food marketing to kids. We market junk food to kids. I think we're one of only 50 countries that. One of the only countries that doesn't do this. Fifty countries control food marketing to kids really regularly. Yeah. U.S. and Syria. No. Are the only ones.

Oh, my gosh.

And all use of antibiotics in animal feed. Except. Except in animal husbandry. Except for treatment of disease, full stop. I would have clear food labeling so that people know what they're eating, is it good for you? Green, is it maybe, you know, a little tricky? Well, eat with caution. Yellow, is it bad for you? It might kill you. Red, Simple.

I mean, you have cigarettes now.

There's, this will cause cancer. I would, and this is controversial, but I would, I would put a tax on junk food and soda which has been proven to work and reduce consumption. This was just done in Mexico, is super effective, done in Berkeley, first place in America, very effective. It's like cigarettes. Yeah. Tax cigarettes. You know, if a Coke was actually $10, I would actually make things cost what they really cost. The only reason McDonald's meal is so cheap is because the government pays for and subsidize it.

Really.

I met with the vice chair of Pepsi, said, why are you using high fructose corn syrup in your soda? He says, because, Mark, the government makes it so cheap for us by subsidizing agriculture and the growing of corn that's turned into high fructose corn syrup. That's why we're using it. It's good business. I wouldn't use it if government didn't make it so cheap. So it end subsidies. I would end any food that wasn't promoting health in any federal funded program. Food stamps you can buy $4 billion now of food stamps are spent on soda for the poor. $4 billion. It's the biggest single amount of item that's bought. Soda. Yeah. You can buy a four, a two liter bottle of soda, but you can't buy a rotisserie chicken. You can't buy with food stamps online because of some stupid regulation. We're trying to change that. I would implement a whole series of policies like this. I would also make sure that we really promote science and nutrition in school. So kids know very early on what's going on. There should be no food that doesn't promote health in schools. We know there's clear evidence that kids who are fed poor foods. And I'm not talking about like school lunches that are, quote, healthy. Right. I mean, pizza is, Pizza is considered a vegetable. Yeah, pizza is a vegetable. According to Congress, pizza is a vegetable.

Oh my gosh, that's all I ate every day.

Yeah. And so we need to clear policies that we could change all this in America. And I think people are ready for it. People want it. People know the issue is here in the kinds of industrial agriculture we're doing that are actually promoting degradation of the environment. And we need to label GMOs because the centralization of seed production has caused huge problems Glyphosate is now Roundup is used on soybeans. 98% of soybeans are Monsanto soybeans. 98%. I think it's something like 98% of world's. So the centralization of seed production and then you know, even if you debate GMOs are good or bad, they're using all this pesticides and herbicides. Yeah. Because of these that are actually now getting into the water. Now we know that glyphosate now according to the World Health Organization and an international board of scientists is a cancer causing agent which is. And I actually I'm excited because I'm going to, in my practice I'm going to start doing glyphosate testing. Okay. For I can see people because people don't know what they're consuming. So I would do a series of things that would really, if I had all the money in the world to really change this.

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