Dr. Mark Hyman - What The Heck Should I Eat?

Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, a ten-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, & advocate in his field. He is the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Mark is also the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center.

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[honestprogressivedetroiter]

I like Dr. Mark Hyman. He makes so much sense. I think that as popular as he is, he could have even MORE impact if he had more finesse in some of his political discussions. He seems to trigger anger in both Democrats and Republicans for different reasons. Unfortunately, the political folks want one's message to be one or the other, when truly, life is not always in a box. Add that to the lobbyists, and the competition between Vegans, Paleo, Vegetarians, and those who have trouble with portion size, not because of food allergy/addiction, but because of depression, PTSD and other trauma, and add to that the fact that food costs money, and food is produced by farmers who have their own set of challenges. The result is almost a labyrinth of so MANY different factions, where the majority cannot agree to back scientists like Dr. Hyman in one voice. When you convert that back to politics, the result is that people who use science will be less influential than people who can pass out donations.

To those who boil messages down to binary choices, what they hear is: This or that. Either support a Goliath of farmers, food manufacturing jobs, hard working waiters, the economy and trade who is making donations, -or- support people who want to take your food choices away, and make you drink carrot juice and don't make donations.

Right now, someone as successful as Dr. Mark Hyman with all his best selling books, is still considered on the fringe of the food and medical industries. If he has sold thousands of books, how many books have been sold by other points of view that are considered mainstream? It is for THIS reason that I suggest that he uses more finesse in his message when it crosses into other lanes to build bridges instead of building walls. His Pegan message is a perfect example of bridge building. He has to do that in other areas too, especially areas which venture into politics. For instance, instead of saying, something along the lines of, "Why should a person on Food Stamps have the right to go by a soda, it will make him sick?!!" - which makes Republicans happy, but turns off the NAACP, because they see it as infringing on freedoms of the poor or oppressed people, he could say, something along the lines of, "Why should our food programs subsidize sugary sodas and candies, which make hungry people sick?" I hope that example makes sense.

The problem is that scientists are scientists, so they don't always have people to help them finesse their messages, and that means that those few who will propel their message to a high level, and have charisma, and or whatever else is most palatable to the mainstream still have more hurdles to climb in fine tuning their basic message, and the overall narrative that the mainstream takes away from it, so that it resonates with the MOST people, including and most importantly those people who make high level decisions about food which they are complaining about, and THEIR constituents.

One needs to be savvy.

[nicholascremato]

I read 40 pages of his book, I am still reading but he doesn't know what food cost. He thinks beef is 5 dollars a pound and organic grass fed is 7 dollars a pound. I live in brooklyn NY and shell steaks are 16 dollars a pound and grass fed organic is up to 26 dollars a pound. I can only buy stew meat for 12 dollars a pound!

[nahidsiddiqui]

So, should one have coconut oil and also cook in it?

[sunshine]

Eat liver for vitamin C. No way. I would rather get my vitamin C from delicious tasty fruits and vegetables.

[greensmoothieparty]

Interesting that Dr. Hyman continues to incorrectly say that the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans indicates that cholesterol is no longer a nutrient of concern. The final guidelines actually include a recommendation from the Institute Of Medicine to eat as little cholesterol as possible (see page 32). During Dr. Hyman's Fat Summit a couple of years ago, his peer physicians (Dr. Fuhrman, Dr. Barnard, Dr. Ornish) all explained specifically how some recent nutrition studies that exonerated saturated fat and cholesterol were intentionally designed to be misleading. I enjoyed Dr. Hyman's PBS specials but his advice is not optimal based on a more critical review of the scientific literature such as that offered by Dr. Greger on www.Nutritionfacts.org.