Episode · Huberman Lab · 2025-04-14
Books mentioned on How to Improve Your Vitality & Heal From Disease | Dr. Mark Hyman
My guest is Dr. Mark Hyman, M.
Dr. Mark Hyman discussed Network Medicine by Joseph Loscalzo and others, Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams, Nutrition Against Disease by Roger J. Williams, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Network Medicine
Discussed“and there's like scientists like Lero Hood who created the institute for system biology and folks like at Harvard Lazium Barbasi was studying this and wrote a book called network medicine about the body as a network”
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Biochemical Individuality
Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams is a foundational text exploring the unique metabolic and nutritional needs of individual humans.
Discussed“One of the fathers of sort of the thinking in functional medicine was Roger Williams who discovered pantaththenic acid or vitamin B5. He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”
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Nutrition Against Disease
Discussed“And actually his book was the one that got me interested in this in college because I live with a nutrition PhD student who was talking about the basically the gut flora of cows when he was studying to understand fiber and the microbiome and he gave me a book called nutrition against disease by Roger Williams”
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The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer that traces the disease from its earliest historical mentions through modern scientific efforts to cure it.
Discussed“brilliant scientist at Colombia who's actually a oncologist who wrote a book called The Emperor Balm Malades and he wrote that book.”
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Our Stolen Future
Discussed“And there's a whole book on this that I read like almost 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future by Theo Coburn which lays out it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins”
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Other mentions in this episode (15) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Food
“I mean, I've written so many books on this. The pagan diet, food, what the heck should I eat?”
“I mean, I've written so many books on this. The pagan diet, food, what the heck should I eat?”
Plugged Food Fix
“I mean, I've written so many books on this. The pagan diet, food, what the heck should I eat?”
Plugged Eat Fat Get Thin
“And I wrote a book called Eat Fat Get Thin where I cataloged the whole history of how we got there and what the problems were and what the science is telling us about what we should be eating”
Plugged Eat Fat Get Thin
“And I wrote a book called Eat Fat Get Thin where I cataloged the whole history of how we got there and what the problems were and what the science is telling us about what we should be eating about the reconsidering saturated fat being bad.”
Passing Biochemical Individuality
“He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”
Passing Nutrition Against Disease
“he gave me a book called nutrition against disease by Roger Williams and it was this is like in 1980 and I read it I was like oh wow this is nutrition is such an important thing.”
Plugged Food Fix
“And then I started to go down that rabbit hole and I wrote a book called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, our communities, uh, our economy, our communities, and our planet one bite at a time where I mapped out from field to fork the problems with our food industry”
Plugged Vive joven, crece en plenitud
“I started to go down that rabbit hole and I wrote a book called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, our communities, uh, our economy, our communities, and our planet one bite at a time where I mapped out from field to fork the problems with our food industry, how it's making us sick, how it's costing us trillions”
Passing Our Stolen Future
“And there's a whole book on this that I read like almost 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future by Theo Coburn which lays out it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water”
Passing Silent Spring
“it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water and our air and they affect fertility rates.”
Plugged Young Forever
“I take it, and I I I think How do you get NAD? I get I get a thousand I get 1,000 milligrams of NMN. So you take that daily? Yeah. Yeah, I do the sublingual in a man and occasionally I'll get an NAD infusion, but it's so unpleasant as it goes in. It's like you're getting stomped on”
Plugged Young Forever
“I wrote a book called Young Forever I talk about longevity and the pathways and when you look at the fundamental regulatory systems in the body around cellular repair healing renewal regeneration”
Plugged Protocols
“For those of you that haven't heard, I have a new book coming out. It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. This is a book that I've been working on for more than five years and that's based on more than 30 years of research and experience.”
Plugged Protocols
“It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.”