How To Use Food As Medicine

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Globally, the rate of chronic disease is double the rate of infectious disease. The single most important thing you can do every day to reduce your risk of chronic disease and change your biology is choose the right foods. What you put on the end of your fork matters, as food works with all seven of our body systems for optimal function, and it contains phytochemicals critical to our evolution that helps us achieve optimal health. In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about what foods will help you live longer and how food affects every single body function, and we even answer some questions from our community. Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley. Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off their entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal. In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The most important foods for longevity (4:45 / 1:30) How food affects all the systems in your body (10:09 / 6:35) The astounding amount of chronic disease and death attributed to food and diet (19:14 / 15:41) Why the conventional medicine approach overlooks nutrition (21:42 / 18:03) Questions from my community on bitter foods and avoiding cancer (30:19 / 26:53) Mentioned in this episode: Food As Medicine PDF Shopping Guide Nourishment by Fred Provenza

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.6	There is no more powerful lever you can pull to change your biology in real time.
0:09.0	And I'm not talking about something that takes decades or even weeks.
0:12.8	Literally days or minutes you are changing your biology with every single bite of food.
0:20.6	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Hyman.
0:22.6	One of the most important tools I have for helping my patients to optimize their health is testing.
0:28.4	And that's why I love Rupa Health and what they're doing.
0:31.6	Functional medicine testing can require placing orders with lots of different labs
0:35.6	and can get kind of complicated for me and my patients to easily access results and keep track of everything.
0:40.4	But Rupa Health has totally streamlined that process.
0:44.0	Looking at hormones, organic acids, nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, gut bacteria,
0:49.6	and so many other internal variables that can help us find the most effective path to health and healing.
0:55.0	I'm really excited now that I can finally take advantage of these tests without the hassle and confusion going through multiple labs.
1:00.8	Rupa is a place for functional medicine practitioners to access more than 2000 specialty tests
1:06.8	from over 20 labs like Dutch, Fiber, and America, Genoa, with great planes and lots more.
1:11.2	It's 90% faster letting you simplify the process of getting the functional tests you need
1:16.2	and giving you more time to focus on your patients.
1:19.8	This is really a much new adoption in functional medicine and in this whole space.
1:23.2	It means better service for you and your patients.
1:25.8	You can check out a live free demo with a Q&A or create account at RupaHealth.com.
1:34.4	Now so many of my patients ask me how I manage to work multiple jobs, travel frequently,
1:39.4	well not so much anymore, and spend time with my family and still focus on my health.
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