This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Mitopure. Heart disease is still the number one killer in the world, yet most people don’t actually understand what markers put them most at risk. It’s so much more than just LDL cholesterol. Statins have become the panacea for anyone with LDL that’s just a little off, yet most people (and even many doctors) aren’t fully informed of the risks versus the benefits of this drug, let alone aware of other treatment options for heart disea...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep 506•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Globally, the rate of chronic disease is double the rate of infectious disease. The single most important thing you can do every day to reduce your risk of chronic disease and change your biology is choose the right foods. What you put on the end of your fork matters, as food works with all seven of our body systems for optimal function, and it contains phytochemicals critical to our evolution that helps us achieve optimal health. In...
Mar 07, 2022•45 min•Ep 505•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep, Athletic Greens, and BiOptimizers. Only about 12 percent of Americans are considered “metabolically healthy.” That means the other 88 percent of us aren’t meeting basic medical guidelines for things like blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, and other markers of metabolic health. In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Cindy Geyer, Dr. Ben Bikman, Mark Sisson, and Dr. Elizabeth Boham about how to identify if you are metabolically unhealthy, how to...
Mar 04, 2022•2 hr 44 min•Ep 504•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker. We can’t have a healthy, high-functioning mind without a healthy, high-functioning brain. Yet, in a world where many people feel unhappy or downright depressed, most of us aren’t prioritizing time each day to upgrade our brains and be intentional about our mindset. I’m here to tell you that if you want to feel happier and more empowered, it’s time to start. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to my good friend and ...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 503•Transcript available on Metacast Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on decreasing your cancer risk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham. Want to hear...
Mar 01, 2022•17 min•Ep 502•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep and Athletic Greens. Sugar is the number-one thing we can all use less of in our lives—in fact, just thinking about it releases insulin! Sugar turns on many mechanisms of disease and death, including inflammation. It fuels cancer and heart disease, it drives hormonal changes, it slows metabolism, and it literally shuts down the body’s ability to burn fat. On top of all that, sugar is highly addictive: the more we eat, the more we want. In this episod...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr•Ep 501•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox, Athletic Greens, and Rupa Health. Eliminating starch and sugar could be the most powerful food choice you make to improve your health and increase your longevity. Why? Because it can reduce or eliminate insulin resistance, which is behind so many chronic diseases. Add to that reducing stress and sleeping better, and you're on the way to a healthier lifestyle that benefits both your body and your mind. In five clips from my Masterclass series, Dhru Pu...
Feb 25, 2022•2 hr 53 min•Ep 500•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Eight Sleep, and Cozy Earth. Just five years ago, the concept of age reversal was considered crazy. Now, it’s the hottest topic in research, as we continuously discover exciting interventions that can actually reverse our biological age. I’ve experienced these amazing advances firsthand—chronologically I’m 62, but my biological, or “inner” age, is only 39. And I’m not the only one who’s become fascinated by the science of age reversal and reaped the...
Feb 23, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Ep 499•Transcript available on Metacast Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode. Want to hear the full episode? Subscribe now. With your 7 day free trial to Apple ...
Feb 22, 2022•17 min•Ep 498•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Belly fat, or visceral fat around the organs, is the number-one cause of aging. It drives inflammation, increases the risk of blood clots, changes your hormones and brain chemistry, and more. It’s a recipe for disaster in the body. Not only does belly fat surround the organs, but it’s an organ of its own that produces dangerous inflammatory cytokines that may lead to a cytokine storm. In short, we want to do everything we can to avoi...
Feb 21, 2022•50 min•Ep 497•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep, Athletic Greens, and BiOptimizers. You can start to heal your body right now simply with the food you put in your mouth—it's really that simple. Food has the power to heal the body from many ailments and can even help prevent cancer. There are many powerful medicinal compounds in foods: curcumin, catechins, lycopene, resveratrol, and quercetin, just to name a few. That’s why I call the grocery store the drug store; we can literally eat our medicine ...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep 496•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and Cozy Earth. Uric acid is a central player in metabolic mayhem. Despite its long association with gout and kidney stones, it’s involved in so much more—especially our metabolic disease epidemic. There are three things that raise our levels of uric acid: purines, alcohol, and fructose. The latter is the biggest challenge, due to its overwhelming presence in our Standard American Diet. That doesn’t mean all fruit is bad or even that ...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep 495•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Mitopure. Between 20 and 30 percent of all doctor visits are initiated due to lack of energy, or chronic fatigue. It is a common problem that plagues so many of us. Often we don’t realize that the last thing we want to do—exercise—could be an easy solution to increasing our energy levels. When we create stress in the body from exercise or other stressors, also called hormesis, we can actually build back stronger as the body heals and repairs. In ...
Feb 14, 2022•58 min•Ep 494•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, and Athletic Greens. Our thoughts have a profound physiological effect on the body and can either help or hinder the healing process. Even just thinking about a negative experience can set off a cascade of physiological events in the body just as if it’s happening right now—the mind-body connection is truly that powerful. In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Emily Fletcher, and Dr. Leonard Calabrese about why our thoughts in...
Feb 11, 2022•54 min•Ep 493•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and Vuori. Food and racism are heavily tied, and the history of fast food franchises in America is one of many examples. In order to continue the fight for civil rights and name ongoing social and racial disparities, it’s important to learn how we got here. I’m excited to dig into all this with Marcia Chatelain. Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Gi...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 492•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Eight Sleep. An astonishing seventy percent of cancer is diet-related. When it comes to treating cancer, conventional medicine is good at cutting it, burning it, and poisoning it, but many doctors fail to treat the root cause. Functional Medicine empowers patients and practitioners to optimize health by addressing the root causes of disease. In this episode of my new Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host, Dhr...
Feb 07, 2022•35 min•Ep 491•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, Paleovalley, and Rupa Health. Sugar lights up the addiction center in our brains, just like heroin and cocaine. Yet many of us consume more sugar than we are aware of because it’s lurking in so many foods that we would never expect. The average person consumes 152 pounds of it per year! Sugar is not just responsible for an increased waistline but also impacts our metabolic health, immune systems, mental health, and more. In today’s episode, I ta...
Feb 04, 2022•59 min•Ep 490•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker. What if you had a tool that helped you not only make better health decisions but also gave you real-time feedback on how your body uniquely reacts to any kind of food? Thanks to continuous glucose monitors this is something we’ll all be able to take advantage of in the near future. Levels is one company that’s been spearheading the field of wearable technology, providing an incredible amount of information on blood ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 489•Transcript available on Metacast Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our latest Dr. Hyman+ Functional Medicine Deep Dive on thyroid and Hashimotos with Dr. Natasha Fallahi. Want to hear the ...
Feb 01, 2022•21 min•Ep 488•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens. Sleep is medicine, just like food is medicine, and may even be more important than diet. Sleep regulates your brain function, helps stabilize your mood, and is a time when the body heals. It’s absolutely critical for a healthy body. Sadly, over 70 million Americans don’t sleep well. This lack of sleep is degrading our health. We feel it in our energy level, it’s hard to focus, and it can even contribute to chronic illness. In thi...
Jan 31, 2022•40 min•Ep 487•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and Eight Sleep. Aging doesn’t have to be a one-way street. Our diet and lifestyle patterns are fundamental to the quality of our health, and the way we age. In this episode, my guests and I explain how to support our health to help us live longer, and more vibrantly. Dr. David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where h...
Jan 28, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Ep 486•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Eight Sleep, and ButcherBox. You might have heard the word “epigenetics” and wondered what the heck it means. Well to sum it up shorthand, epigenetics is how everything you’re exposed to throughout your life—your environment, your social relationships, your diet, etc.—impacts how your genes are expressed. Think of it like this: genes are our hardware and epigenetics are like software. Our software is something that can be changed and upgraded, it do...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 485•Transcript available on Metacast Hey podcast community, Dr. Mark here. My team and I are so excited to offer you a 7 Day Free trial of the Dr. Hyman+ subscription for Apple Podcast. For 7 days, you get access to all this and more entirely for free! It's so easy to sign up. Just go click the Try Free button on the Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast page in Apple Podcast. In this teaser episode, you’ll hear a preview of our monthly Ask Mark Anything episode. Want to hear the full episode? Subscribe now. With your 7 day free trial to Apple ...
Jan 25, 2022•20 min•Ep 484•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Mitopure. The average American consumes 133 pounds of flour per year. Let that sink in. What we may not realize is that every time we eat white flour, we are harming ourselves. The starch in common wheat, typically known as modern dwarf wheat, raises your blood sugar more than table sugar! Eating a diet high in carbohydrates may affect not just your waistline, but also your brain function, energy, immune system, healthspan, and more. In this epis...
Jan 24, 2022•41 min•Ep 483•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and Eight Sleep. Feeling tired during the day may not just be due to a poor night’s sleep. Most of us can relate to feeling run-down and tired, even when we’re getting enough sleep. There are many reasons why your body might not be functioning well during the day. In this compilation episode, I talk to Dr. Steven Gundry and Dr. Elizabeth Boham about the many factors that can impact energy production such as diet, circadian rhythm, m...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 482•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, BiOptimizers, and Thrive Market. What if I told you it was possible to reverse your age by three years, in just eight weeks? Well, it is, and today you can learn how. Perhaps the greatest part of this exciting news is that the changes we can make to reverse biological aging are pretty simple and very accessible. The amazing doctor behind this groundbreaking research is my good friend, colleague, and long-time collaborator Dr. Kara Fitzgerald. Dr. Fi...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep 481•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Protecting your brain and cognitive function is not just for the elderly. It’s never too early to start protecting your brain, which is something we should all think more about as Alzheimer’s and dementia rates continue to rise. We can start with healthy lifestyle choices that affect diet, sleep, stress management, and more. The bonus of brain-healthy lifestyle choices like these is that they protect the health of your entire body as...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep 480•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and InsideTracker. Wellness is more than just eating right and exercising; it’s also much more than just feeling “okay.” Feeling well means feeling whole, balanced, vibrant, and alive. And there are many moving pieces that we can tap into to feel empowered in our own wellness journey. Functional Medicine looks at the body with a systems-based approach, understanding how all our different parts work together and looking at a symptom ...
Jan 14, 2022•2 hr 57 min•Ep 479•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep, Athletic Greens, and Mitopure. I recently spent time in Sardinia, Italy, which is known for having one of the world’s longest-lived populations. It simply blew me away. After getting to know the people, their day-to-day activities, their diets, and their sense of community I can totally see why they live such long and happy lives. So, how can we embrace these same aspects of Sardinian life in our own busy Western world? Blue Zones pioneer Dan Buettn...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 478•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and ButcherBox. Fasting is a great way to optimize your health, and it’s more approachable than you might think. It is a free tool that activates all the systems in your body to protect you, heal you, and help you live longer. Fasting can help to reduce inflammation, brain fog, and insulin resistance. It can also increase energy and bone density and activate autophagy, which is the process of cleaning out damaged cells. In this episode of my new Mast...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 477•Transcript available on Metacast 
