Name: Dr. Mark Hyman: How Functional Medicine Helps Us Take Back Our Energy, Focus & Lives
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Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business

And one of the most important components to be able to do that is your health.

My guest today is a world renowned expert and fierce advocate in the fight to transform

our healthcare and he’s here to show us how to take back control of our energy, our

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

That’s why he’s dedicated to tackling the root causes of chronic disease by harnessing

the power of functional medicine to transform healthcare.

He’s a practicing family physician, a ten time number one New York Times bestselling

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.

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.

Well, I think, you know, anybody who sort of had a life changing experience, like, there’s

always something that, like, shifts them that changes their life.

I was vigorous, healthy, riding my bike 100 miles a day, could see 30 patients, remember

everybody without any notes, and dictate everything at the end of the day and get it all right.

To the next day not being able to walk up the stairs, not knowing where I was at the

end of a sentence from where I started, and having…

I felt like I had depression, dementia, ADD all at once.

I couldn’t focus, I couldn't remember anything, I felt horrible, I couldn’t sleep, my muscles

ached, my digestion completely went kaflooey, my whole system broke down.

I developed autoimmune issues, I developed rashes, I had sores on my tongue.

I literally went from being like a running 5 miles a day, yoga teacher before I was a

doctor, to basically having this total body breakdown.

And it was through the process of sort of uncovering that that I sort of found that

there was a whole new way to think about health and disease that was really about the root

causes, about thinking of the body as a whole system, not just a bunch of different organs.

And I went to doctor after doctor after doctor, there’s a doctor for every different part

And instead of having a doctor for the whole organism we have doctors for organs.

And I found that I was able to actually understand how the body worked as a whole system, not

And that’s when I discovered functional medicine.

And I realized it was a whole way of thinking that was completely different than what I

They put all the pieces together, they connected the dots that helped me figure out, you know,

And it turned out I had mercury poisoning from living in China and I had picked up some

bug in some lake in Maine and my gut kinda went crazy.

And those two things completely shifted my whole biology and it got stuck and I couldn't

And it was through understanding how to create health rather than treat disease that I was

So functional medicine is essentially the science of creating health and it’s very

powerful and it’s the future of healthcare.

That’s why I’m at Cleveland Clinic now, because the CEO of Cleveland Clinic, which

is one of the number one health care centers in the world, has said, “Oh, this is the

We should be doing this and we’re gonna invest in this,” and they’re investing

I mean, we just… we’re building a 6 million dollar brand new 18 thousand square foot center.

We’ve got 2 thousand people on the waiting list.

And I think we can’t grow fast enough because people get it.

People get that the way we are treating disease doesn't work.

We can’t just be covering over symptoms with medications.

We have to understand the body is a biological system and ecosystem.

And that was really the sort of shift that happened for me and it led to me having to

literally unwind my own health, get healthy, and then it’s really compelled me to do

Because I realize, wait a minute, there’s so many people who are suffering that don't

Like a friend of mine sent me an email of this woman who’s been suffering, it was

her neighbor, and she gave me a list of symptoms and her whole story and I looked at it in

And it’s not because I’m a genius, it’s because I know the right lens to look at the

You know, it’s like once you understand how to solve a problem, it’s not that hard.

For Einstein to figure out E=MC squared, that was a lot of figuring.

But once you have it figured out, it’s easy.

So I think that’s… that’s the whole beauty of functional medicine.

It’s sort of like the, you know, what are the laws of biology.

It’s like, how are we this amazing, magical system and how does it actually work?

And in medicine, we don't really have any theories.

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