Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. As many of you know, in addition to being a podcast, Commune is also a video course platform for holistic wellness.

Last January, we began experimenting with a format where once a month we would release the first few hours of a course here in your podcast feed.

That experiment has proved so wildly popular that we have decided to launch a new podcast called the Commune Courses podcast. This new Commune Courses podcast offers free audio

excerpts of our most popular courses, essentially the first half of every course every other week.

So we're cleaning it up. We're putting the courses over there and the interview is over here.

Anyhow, click the link in the show notes or search commune courses in your podcast app to go listen and subscribe.

Already in the feed, you will find two courses, one with Dr. Gabor Mate and one featuring Dr. Mark Hyman on hacking your health care.

Today's show is actually a teaser to encourage you to head on over and listen to Dr.

Hyman's lessons on the Commune Courses podcast.

In this audio excerpt, Dr. Hyman explains how functional medicine is the future of conventional

medicine.

Available now if you know how to work with your doctor to get the care you need.

Functional medicine seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease rather than

simply treating symptoms, often with cocktails of drugs.

It is the medicine of why, not what. Your doctor shouldn't be asking what disease do you have

and what drugs should you use, but instead, why do you have those symptoms? And how can we fix the root causes and optimize your health?

I hope you find Dr. Hyman's lesson in Lightning,

and I hope it inspires you to go listen to more on the Commune Courses podcast.

This is just one of five lessons from hacking your health care that are waiting for you

there.

Hi, everyone. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman. I'm a practicing functional medicine doctor. I'm an author.

I'm the founder and director of the Ultra Wellness Center in Massachusetts, and I'm Dr. Mark Hyman. I'm a practicing functional medicine doctor. I'm an author. I'm the founder and director of the Ultra Wellness Center in Massachusetts.

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