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On Being with Krista Tippett

Mark Hyman, James Gordon, and Penny George — The Evolution of Medicine

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A transformation of medicine is underway, a transition from a science of treating disease to a science of health. Mark Hyman is a family physician and a pioneer in the new discipline of functional medicine. James Gordon is an expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. Penny George became a philanthropist of integrative medicine after she experienced cancer in mid-life. Before a live audience at the University of Minnesota, they discuss the challenge and promise of aligning medicine with a 21st century understanding of human wholeness.

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I think one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the last 30 years is that food isn't just

0:05.9

energy, it's actually information.

0:08.3

It actually provides instructions in a literally minute to minute bite-by-bite basis to everything

0:13.6

that's going on in your body.

0:14.9

A transformation of medicine is underway, a transition from a science of treating disease

0:21.0

to a science of health.

0:23.0

Dr. Mark Heimann is a pioneer in the new discipline of functional medicine.

0:27.2

He's best known perhaps as Bill Clinton's transformative personal physician.

0:31.6

I joined him with two other visionaries, helping to align medicine with a 21st century grasp

0:37.2

of human wholeness.

0:38.8

James Gordon is an expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological

0:44.4

trauma.

0:45.4

Penny George became a philanthropist of integrative medicine after she experienced cancer in

0:50.8

midlife.

0:51.8

The standard of care really looked at me as a body part and a disease, and it was clear

0:56.4

to me even then that I was so much more than that.

0:59.3

And what I found was it was the experience of taking charge of my own return to well-being,

1:06.0

more than just health.

1:07.0

And I ended up at a place that was so much better than where I had been before I started

1:10.9

that I thought everybody should have access to this.

1:14.5

We're looking to create the opportunity for people to heal themselves and to create that

1:18.6

environment.

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