124 - Dr. Mark Hyman on Food as Medicine & The Pegan Diet

A Second Opinion with Senator Bill Frist, M.D.

Dr. Mark Hyman is the Head of Strategy and Innovation of the Cleveland Clinic for Functional Medicine, a fourteen-time New York Times bestselling author, founder and director of the Ultra Wellness Center, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Dr. Hyman's latest book—if you pick it up you will read it cover to cover -- is The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World. It's packed with super practical information about food, -- and your health, the role it plays in our environment and the world around us. You will look at what you eat in a whole different context.

Dr. Hyman is the host of, the top, most listened to health and wellness podcast, The Doctor’s Farmacy.

Dr. Hyman Is leading a health revolution —one revolving around using food as medicine, to support longevity, energy, mental clarity, happiness, and to improve the health of the planet.

Did you realize that wheat bread is worse for you than sugar. You will learn why – and more.