Mark Hyman, M.D. Quotes

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.

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!

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.

There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

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

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.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

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.

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.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

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

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

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

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.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

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.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Chronic disease is a food borne illness.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.

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.

Just eat less and exercise more.

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

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.