Mark Hyman, M.D. Quotes

#1. The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#2. Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an "anacetrapib" deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#3. The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#4. The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#5. The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#6. It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#7. Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool - and out of your body.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#8. Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#9. The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#10. In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#11. All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#12. Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#13. It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#14. The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

Mark Hyman, M.D.