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Dr. Mark Hyman books: every book Dr. Mark Hyman wrote and recommended
Across 7 podcasts. Every show Dr. Mark Hyman appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Dr. Mark Hyman
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Pegan Diet
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Ultrametabolism
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The Blood Sugar Solution
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The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
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Young Forever
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Young Forever Cookbook
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The Ultrasimple Diet
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Daniel Plan
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Daniel Plan Jumpstart Guide
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Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet Cookbook
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Food Fix
Dr. Mark Hyman’s most recommended books
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- Good Food on a Tight Budget by Environmental Working Group (Washington, D.C.)
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Brain Train by Richard Palmer, Chris Pope
- Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
- The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
- Network Medicine by Joseph Loscalzo
- Brain Energy by Christopher M. Palmer
Mark Adam Hyman is an American physician and author. He is the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center. Hyman was a regular contributor to the Katie Couric Show until the show's cancellation in 2013. He hosts an eponymous podcast, The Dr. Hyman Show, which examines many topics related to human health. He is the author of several books on nutrition and longevity, of which 15 have become New York Times bestsellers, including Food Fix, Eat Fat, Get Thin, and Young Forever. During podcast appearances, such as on Honestly with Bari Weiss and The Megyn Kelly Show, Dr. Mark Hyman has recommended several influential books and guides. He highlighted Jack Kerouac, specifically mentioning Desolation Angels, as an author who set him on an adventurous path of crazy wisdom. He also recommended Henry David Thoreau's Walden for structuring his philosophy of life, and Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America as a foundational text shaping his views on agriculture. To explain how to eat healthy on a tight budget, he frequently pointed listeners to the Environmental Working Group's guidebook Good Food on a Tight Budget. Furthermore, Hyman discussed Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat to expose food industry practices, and Chris Palmer's Brain Energy to support the field of metabolic psychiatry.
Books recommended by Dr. Mark Hyman
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“and Thomas wrote about this in the structure of scientific revolutions.”
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Good Food on a Tight Budget
Good Food on a Tight Budget by the Environmental Working Group and Share Our Strength is a practical guide designed to help individuals and families purchase and prepare nutritious meals affordably.
Recommended“So I gave them a guide called Good Food on a Tight Budget from the Environmental Working Group. How to eat well for your wallet, good for the planet, and good for your health.”
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Walden
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is a classic transcendentalist masterwork detailing the author's experiences living in a cabin near Concord, Massachusetts, while reflecting on nature, solitude, and self-reliance.
Recommended“Uh was Walden by Henry Theorough, which basically structured my vision of what life could and should look like and how to live.”
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Brain Train
Brain Energy by Chris Palmer is a groundbreaking work exploring metabolic psychiatry and the connection between nutrition, mitochondrial function, and mental health conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Recommended“You got Chris Palmer who wrote a book called Brain Energy talking about how he cured schizophrenics by changing their diet and bipolar disease.”
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Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is an investigative look into how major food corporations intentionally engineer ultra-processed products to be addictive.
Recommended“Michael Moss wrote a book about this called Salt, Sugar, and Fatty. interviewed 300 different food industry executives and scientists and whistleblowers.”
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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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Young Forever
Young Forever by Mark Hyman is a health and wellness guide that outlines a step-by-step program aimed at reversing disease, reducing pain, and increasing longevity so readers can live healthier lives as they age.
Discussed“That’s really a lot about my book Young Forever; it's about how we activate these ancient longevity switches, these ancient healing systems.”
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Desolation Angels
Why people recommend it: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac is a semi-autobiographical novel capturing the Beat generation's disillusionment, travels, and pursuit of alternative spiritual paths.
Recommended“and Um, it wasn't one book, but it was Jack Carowak as an author, maybe Desolation Angels, which really kind of set me out on this path of being on the wild adventure”
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The Unsettling of America
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry is a critique of modern industrial agriculture that explores the decline of family farming and the cultural consequences of treating land as a mere commodity.
Discussed“And it was the Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural”
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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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Brain Energy
Brain Energy by Christopher M.
Recommended“so uh there's an amazing psychiatrist who is at Harvard who wrote a book called brain energy Christopher Palmer who's just brilliant”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an influential exploration of how trauma physically impacts the brain and body, offering pathways to healing through modern science and therapy.
Recommended“and there's a book called the body keeps score and and Carolyn mace was a sort of a Mystic said you your biography becomes your biology”
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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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Consilience
Consilience by E.O.
Discussed“I Wilson's I read his book Consilience, the unit of knowledge. He talked about this this sort of framework that connects all these disciplines together in in sort of social sciences sciences and he said there's no theory of medicine.”
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Fed up
Fed Up is a documentary film investigating the systemic causes of childhood obesity and the hidden influence of the sugar industry on public health and government dietary guidelines.
Discussed“i was showing a movie as that was in this a number of years called fed up which is about childhood obesity and the the problems we have with the food industry and sugar and starch”
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Food Fix
Food Fix by Dr.
Discussed“I talked about this in my last book, Food Fix; in prisons, if they give prisoners healthy food, violent crime goes down by 56%.”
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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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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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Prepare the Way of the Lord
The North American Lutheran Church publication explores theological foundations and spiritual preparation within a contemporary framework.
Discussed“And it was the uh Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural uh sort of organizations.”
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is a groundbreaking environmental science book published in 1962 that documented the devastating ecological effects of pesticides like DDT, ultimately launching the modern environmental movement.
Discussed“I mean Silent Spring was written in the 60s by Rachel Carson which exposed the harm of DDT and pesticides.”
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The other 1 book Dr. Mark Hyman recommended or discussed, ranked
- The end of Alzheimer's by Dale E. Bredesen
Appearances
Other mentions (55: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“I called them out in my book, FoodX.”
“And that led to me writing this book called the ultra mind solution, which is how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first.”
“I called him out in my book Food Fix.”
“This has been well shown in a movie coming up called Common Ground.”
“And that led to me writing this book called the ultra mind solution which is how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first.”
“I call the 10-day detox diet. I've written a book about it. There's a website where you can kind of go in 10day detoxdiet.com and actually learn about it and and do it if you want to.”
“And so, I created a a program that I use with my patients called the 10-Day Detox Diet. And sometimes I would have people on for a year.”
“And I wrote a book about it called The UltraMind Solution, How to Fix Your Broken Brain by Fixing Your Brain First.”
“I've been a nonprofit called the Food Fix Campaign. I wrote a book called Food Fix.”
“And I wrote a book about it called the 10day detox diet. And and I created an online program.”
“I wrote a book called Young Forever and they were, you know, lots of people drinking wine every day.”
“Um, we actually wrote a book about it called the Daniel Plan. It was a number one New York Times bestseller and it won the Christian Book of the Year award which I think I'm the only Jew to win that award.”
“Um, we actually wrote a book about it called the Daniel Plan. It was a number one New York Times bestseller and it won the Christian Book of the Year award”
“And I wrote a book about this 15 years ago called The Ultramind Solution about how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first.”
“I wrote a book about it called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy.”
“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?”
“I mean, I've written so many books on this. The pagan diet, food, what the heck should I eat?”
“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”
“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.”
“He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“I called him out in my book Food Fix I said you know there was a a panel on chronic disease in a hearing in Congress and he was emphasizing it was just exercise that was the issue.”
“And that led to me writing this book called The Ultra Mind Solution, which is how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first.”