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Dr. Mark Hyman's book recommendations
Dr. Mark Hyman appears on discussion-driven interview programs such as Honestly with Bari Weiss and The Megyn Kelly Show, where he advocates for metabolic health, functional medicine, and systemic food industry reform. He has recommended several influential books and guides across his appearances. To help people eat healthily on a budget, he frequently recommended the Environmental Working Group's guide Good Food on a Tight Budget. He also endorsed Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat to expose how food executives engineer addictive foods, and he recommended Chris Palmer's Brain Energy to support the field of metabolic psychiatry. Additionally, Hyman highlighted foundational literary and philosophical works that shaped his outlook, including Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America, and Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels as an inspiration for his adventurous path in life. Finally, he referenced Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to explain the difficulties of shifting mainstream medical paradigms.
Books Dr. Mark Hyman recommends
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Good Food on a Tight Budget
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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The Emperor of All Maladies
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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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“I mean you know you I don't know if you ever heard of the book the structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas Co. You talked about this idea of normal science.”
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Brain Train
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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Desolation Angels
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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Salt Sugar Fat
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 Unsettling of America
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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Walden
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is a classic reflection on simple living, self-reliance, and harmony with nature, detailing the author's experiences while residing in a small cabin near Concord, Massachusetts.
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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Biochemical Individuality
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
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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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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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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Books Dr. Mark Hyman wrote
- The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet Cookbook
- Young Forever
- The Daniel Plan
- The UltraMind Solution
- Food Fix
- Food
- Eat Fat Get Thin
- The Blood Sugar Solution
- The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet
- Food Fix
- Young Forever
Appearances
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And I wrote a book about it called the 10day detox diet. And and I created an online program.”
Own book Young Forever
“I wrote a book called Young Forever and they were, you know, lots of people drinking wine every day.”
Own book The Daniel Plan
“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”
Own book The UltraMind Solution
“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.”
Own book Food Fix
“I wrote a book about it called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy.”
Own book Food
“I mean, I've written so many books on this. The pagan diet, food, what the heck should I eat?”
Own book 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”
Own book 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”
Own book 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”
Own book Food Fix
“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.”
Own book The Blood Sugar Solution
“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.”
“And I I called the 10-day detox diet. I' 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.”