Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in the right place we do it all with humor

and heart so let's dive in. My guest today is a world-renowned expert and fierce

advocate in the fight to transform our health care.

And he's here to show us how to take back control of our energy, our focus, and our lives.

Dr Mark Hyman believes that we all deserve a life of vitality and that we have the

potential to create it for ourselves. That's why he's dedicated to tackling the root causes

of chronic disease by harnessing the power of functional medicine to transform

health care.

He's a practicing family physician, a 10-time number one New York Times best-selling

author, and an internationally recognized leader,

educator, and advocate in his field.

He's the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and also the founder and medical director of the Ultra Wellness

Center.

Mark is the chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor

of the Huffington Post, and has been a regular medical contributor on many

television shows including CBS This Morning, The Today Show, and CNN.

Mark also plays a substantial role in the phenomenal documentary released in 2014 called

Fed Up, which addresses childhood obesity.

Mark Hyman, thank you so much.

We're finally doing this. We are. We wanted to do it forever.

Great to be here. So let's start off with your story because I know 20 years ago you got quite sick and it had a profound impact on who you are and your work.

Can you tell us about that?

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