Biography of Mark Hyman, M.D.

The Future of Integrative Medicine: Toward One Medicine
Questions of the role of integrative medicine or CAM in our health care system remain. Is it a new type of health care, is it a laundry list of separate modalities, is it a new organizing set of principles that can inform health care delivery, is it a transitional metaphor that is intended to become obsolete to be replaced simply by “Good Medicine”? What might the future of health care look like if patient-centered medicine replaced disease-centered medicine? How can this new medicine provide better solutions and improved quality of care for the dominant health problems of our time – chronic disease? What are the guiding principles that will lead us away from our fragmented health care delivery model to a truly integrated system?

Ultrametabolism - The Causes Obesity: An Integrative Approach to the Science of Weight Loss
While the waist of American and global population is expanding, debate rages about the extent, the causes and solutions for the obesity “problem”. The science of nutrigenomics, new research on the role of environment, stress, inflammation, the neuroendocrine balance, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction sheds new light on the complex set factors that can affect weight regulation in any one individual. The dynamic interplay of various environmental, genetic, neuroendocrine and metabolic factors changes the dialogue from blaming the victim for sloth and gluttony to providing novel answers to the obesity epidemic. Drugs and surgery may be a last resort to a problem that has its ultimate solution in changing maladaptive gene expression patterns through changes in meal composition, timing, pattern, hormonal balance, exercise, nutritional support, herbal and mind body therapies.

Ultra prevention: The New Science of Staying Healthy

This lecture with Mark Hyman, MD, co-author of the New York Times best-selling, Ultraprevention, will discuss a new emerging model of medicine, one that focuses on healthcare, not disease care; that, rather than seeking to “fix the broken parts: or prescribe “a pill for every ill,” promotes a vital, disease-free life. Dr. Hyman will explain the five basic forces of illness (malnutrition, impaired metabolism, inflammation, oxidative stress, and inefficient detoxification), new types of tests that can pinpoint the real causes of illness, how you can regain your health through simple lifestyle modifications, and much more. Come discover this state of the art, scientifically based, approach to health maintenance and disease prevention that is shaking up the world of medicine.

Natural Approaches to Hormone Balance in a Woman’s Life Cyle

Women’s health is a barometer of their environment. It is created out of their relationships, their joys and traumas. It is grounded in the quality of their nutrition and the health of the water and the air around them. Why is there an epidemic of hormonal disturbances in women’s life cycles? Why is there an increasing incidence of early menarche, and hormonal dysfunction, eating disorders, premenstrual syndrome affecting tens of millions of women, endometriosis, fibroids, menstrual difficulties including pain and heavy bleeding, infertility, breast cancer, and difficult transitions through menopause.
None of these barometers of imbalance are necessary or essential to being a woman. They have evolved out of disturbed families, ecosystems, relationships to food and to bodies and distorted cultural images of what it is to be a woman in our world. There are natural ways to restore hormone balance and health that include nutrition, lifestyle approaches, exercise, stress managements, supplements, herbs and the intelligent use of natural hormones.

About Mark Hyman, M.D.

Dr. Mark Hyman proves age-defying strategies for looking good and staying well.
Body & Mind: A pioneering physician and respected consultant, Dr. Mark Hyman leaves audiences with an up-to-the-minute guide for creating a health plan to match their life spans. In the forefront of ground-breaking research on aging productively and overcoming obesity, he translates years of clinical practice into useful and effective ways to help audiences plan to create and maintain vibrant good health for life. Hyman outlines unique, effective, easy-to-follow steps to rejuvenate, restore and revitalize both bodies and minds.

Navigating the Way to Health: Editor and chief of the prestigious Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Hyman in a clear, conversational manner, explains why disease and health decline need not accompany advancing age, earning recognition for his commonsense roadmap to navigating our way back to health. A leader in the emerging field of functional medicine, Hyman tells audiences of all ages how to take control of their own health care. This pioneering voice for change outlines realistic steps consumers can take to actually boost their health and energy over time.

Trusted Voice: A respected voice, Hyman is a widely consulted health expert. He has been a guest on Today, The Early Show, and The View with Barbara Walters, and has appeared on CNN, FOX, PBS and NPR, as well as many other television and radio stations. He is quoted regularly in leading consumer magazines including Fitness, Self, Shape, Glamour, Family Circle, Elle, Town & Country, Health and Natural Health.