Humans have coevolved with food and its medicinal actions on our bodies, meaning we have actual cell receptors for specific food-derived molecules. So why aren’t doctors trained in how to use food as medicine? We’re taught all about using pharmaceuticals to affect our biology, but the power of food is left high and dry. I think this is a foundational area of medical training we need to change. That’s why I’m so excited to talk to one of my favorite people and thinkers in the world of food and medicine on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, Dr. William Li. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, ButcherBox, Beekeepers Naturals, and ARMRA. Streamline your lab orders with Rupa Health. Access more than 3,500 specialty lab tests and register for a FREE live demo at RupaHealth.com. ButcherBox is giving new members two pounds of ground beef for FREE in every box. Visit ButcherBox.com/Farmacy and use code FARMACY. Head to BeekeepersNaturals.com/HYMAN and use the code ‘HYMAN’ to get 20% off sitewide. Save 15% on your first order of ARMRA Colostrum and unlock the power of 400+ functional nutrients. Just visit TryARMRA.com/Mark or use code MARK.
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Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark Hyman. Thank you so much for being a loyal listener to The Doctor's Pharmacy. For the holidays, I've decided to give my team a little break to rest up and prepare for more content and the new year ahead. So The Doctor's Pharmacy will be replaying some older episodes for the next two weeks.
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Science is giving us the answer to those questions that patients want to have. Food and medicine, not food versus medicine. There are foods that actually can lower inflammation.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Mark Hyman, a practicing physician and proponent of systems medicine, a framework to help you understand the why or the root cause of your symptoms. Welcome to The Doctor's Pharmacy. Every week, I bring on interesting guests to discuss the latest topics in the field of functional medicine and do a deep dive on how these topics pertain to your health.
In today's episode, I have some interesting discussions with other experts in the field. So let's just trump right in.
You know, there's three things that I always tell people that are super easy to do. And again, it has to do with the biology and understanding your body. First, you want to kind of unburden your body's biology, let your health defenses work for you. So you want to cut down the things that actually um, kind of, uh, sit on or kind of squelch your body's defenses.
Like let's start with a clear, clean playing field. So, you know, start to cut off things like sodas and, and ultra processed foods and, and, and, um, uh, lots of processed meats, things like that. It, it unloads your body and allows your body. It's kind of like taking, it's, it's kind of like taking all the dirty laundry off the floor, you know, and let's start with a clean room.
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