Top 61 Mark Hyman Quotes
#1. If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Mark Hyman
#2. Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#3. 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.
#4. 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.
#5. Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
Mark Hyman
#6. Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
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#7. 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.
#8. In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
Mark Hyman
#9. The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
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#10. It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.
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#11. To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.
Hyman Rickover
#12. When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
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#13. Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day.
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#14. In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.
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#15. The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.
Mark E. Hyman
#16. Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.
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#17. We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.
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#18. 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.
#19. When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.
Mark E. Hyman
#20. We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
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#21. Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
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#22. Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.
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#23. You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
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#24. 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.
#25. I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
Mark Hyman
#26. Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
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#27. Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
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#28. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
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#29. 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.
#30. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
Mark E. Hyman
#31. The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
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#32. Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
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#33. While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.
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#34. Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
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#35. 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.
#36. I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Mark Hyman
#37. The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
Mark E. Hyman
#38. Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
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#39. One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
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#40. It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
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#41. Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
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#42. 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.
#43. 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.
#44. Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.
Mark Hyman
#45. Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
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#46. The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.
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#47. The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
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#48. 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.
#49. Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
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#50. Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.
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#51. You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
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#52. Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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#53. 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.
#54. There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.
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#55. 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.
#56. We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.
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#57. You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
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#58. My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
Mark Hyman
#60. 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.
#61. While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
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