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The Dr. Hyman Show
Welcome to The Dr. Hyman Show, the podcast helping you take ownership of your health and reimagine what’s possible. Hosted by Dr. Mark Hyman—physician, bestselling author, and pioneer in functional medicine—this show explores the most pressing issues of our time: chronic disease, nutrition, mental h...
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What We Got Wrong About the Gut Microbiome (And What's Actually Right)
We hear a lot about improving gut health through food, probiotics, and supplements. But after more than a decade of major advances in microbiome resea...
ADHD Is a Whole-Body Problem: What to Look at Beyond the Brain
ADHD is usually treated as a problem in the brain. But what if some of the factors making it harder to focus, regulate your mood, or manage your sympt...
How to Actually Calm an ADHD Nervous System (And Change Your Life)
ADHD can go unnoticed for decades, especially in women who learn to compensate through perfectionism, overpreparing, and working under pressure. It of...
Inflammation isn't Something to Eliminate. It's Something to Regulate
Chronic inflammation may be one of the biggest forces accelerating how we age—and the surprising part is that many of the things keeping it switched o...
Don't Wait for Alzheimer's — A Neurologist's 30-Year Plan to Protect Your Brain
By the time memory begins to slip, the changes affecting the brain may have been developing for decades. But the trajectory isn’t fixed, and many of t...
Your Skin’s Worst Enemy Isn't the Sun - It's Your Metabolism!
Healthy skin isn't built in your bathroom—it’s built inside your body. While most people focus on creams, collagen powders, and cosmetic treatments, t...
What We Got Wrong About GLP-1s (And What's Right) | Dr. Tyna Moore
GLP-1 medications have changed how we treat obesity and metabolic disease. But as their use has exploded, so have questions about side effects, muscle...
The Truth About Weight Loss, Muscle, and Metabolism! Don't Make This Mistake
The number on your scale tells you almost nothing about your actual health. You can lose weight while becoming less healthy—or stay the same weight wh...
Can Heart Disease Be Reversed? After His Own Heart Attack, This Surgeon Changed Everything | Dr. Jeremy London
Heart disease is still the leading cause of death worldwide. Yet many people assume it only happens to those who are older, out of shape, or obviously...
The 2 Workouts That Protect Your Brain, Muscles, and Metabolism
What if one of the most powerful anti-aging tools wasn't a supplement, medication, or expensive biohack—but the way you exercise? While many people th...
Undiagnosed Infections Are Silently Causing Chronic Disease | Dr. Richard Horowitz
Living with chronic illness can feel like collecting diagnoses without getting real answers. Symptoms are treated one at a time, but the underlying ca...
Lyme Disease: The Symptoms, Tests, and Treatments Doctors Miss
What if the fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, or mysterious symptoms you've been chasing for years weren't caused by stress, aging, or burnout—but by a...
Big Pharma's Trillion Dollar Deception on Mental Health | Joanna Moncrief
For decades, depression has often been described as the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. But how strong is the evidence behind that idea?...
3pm Slump Destroying Your Focus? Here's What's Really Happening
Do you hit a wall every afternoon around 2 or 3 p.m.? If your energy disappears, your brain gets foggy, and you need caffeine or sugar just to finish...
Heart Rate Variability | Why Your Nervous System Needs This.
We all experience stress. The real challenge isn't stress itself—it's whether we recover from it. Over time, chronic stress can quietly affect everyth...
Too Much Histamine Is Wrecking Your Body — And Most Doctors Don't Know It
Histamine isn't just about seasonal allergies or a runny nose. It influences your brain, gut, hormones, immune system, and nervous system—and when you...
How Brain Inflammation Drives Depression, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's
For decades, we've thought about conditions like Alzheimer's disease, depression, and Parkinson's disease as disorders of the brain. But what if that'...
Your Nervous System Controls Your Gut, Hormones, and Weight — Here's How to Fix It
You've cleaned up your diet. You're taking the supplements. You're exercising, sleeping more, and doing everything "right." So why do you still feel e...
3 Heart Experts Reveal What Really Prevents Heart Disease
As part of our summer series, we're revisiting some of the most important conversations we've had on the topics that matter most to our health. And fe...
Encore: Why Normal Cholesterol Doesn't Always Mean Low Heart Disease Risk
High cholesterol has been treated as the main cause of heart disease for decades. But over the years, I've changed my mind. Today, I believe cholester...
Why Reproductive Health May Be the Most Important Biomarker for Women's Longevity | Dr. Natalie Crawford
Most health issues don't appear overnight. Long before a diagnosis is made, the body often provides subtle clues that something needs closer attention...
The Perfect Gut Healing Protocol: What to Eat, Avoid, and Do Every Day
Bloating, brain fog, fatigue, skin issues, food sensitivities, autoimmune symptoms—most people treat these as separate problems. But often, they can a...
Could Diet Reverse the Course of MS? Dr. Terry Wahls' Remarkable Recovery
We’ve been taught to treat chronic diseases as isolated problems to be diagnosed and managed. But these conditions may have more in common than conve...
Could Mold Be Making You Sick? Symptoms, Testing, and Recovery
Mold is one of the most misunderstood topics in health. Some people are told it’s not a real problem. Others are led to believe it’s the cause of ever...
Is It Burnout Or Something Deeper? The High-Functioning Trap | Dr. Judith Joseph
If we're wired for joy, why do so many successful people feel exhausted, disconnected, or emotionally flat?
On this episode of The Dr. Hy...
Why Your Cholesterol Is High—and How to Start Fixing It in 10 Days
High cholesterol is one of the most common reasons people are told they’re at risk for heart disease. But what if cholesterol isn’t the root problem?...
Antidepressants Explained: Benefits, Risks, and Alternatives for Depression | Dr. James Greenblatt
Depression is often treated as a single condition. But two people with the same diagnosis can have completely different underlying causes.
The Perfect Morning Routine for a Longer, Sharper Life | Dr. Mark Hyman
Morning routines have become one of the most talked-about topics in health and wellness—but it’s not just about productivity or checking boxes. How yo...
Millions of Women Stopped Taking Hormones Because of a Misread Study | Dr. Sharon Malone
For far too long, many women have been told their symptoms were normal, exaggerated, or simply something they had to live with—treated as isolated pro...
Is HRT Safe? 10 Questions Women Ask Most — Answered by a Functional MD
Hormone replacement therapy is one of the most talked about—and misunderstood—topics in women’s health. For years, women were told HRT was dangerous....
The Latest Science on Microplastics — And What They’re Doing to Your Body | Dr. Shanna Swan
We’re surrounded by plastics and environmental chemicals every day, but only recently have scientists begun to understand how deeply they may be affec...
Are You Secretly Dehydrated? Why a 1% Drop Kills Your Focus and Mood
Hydration affects far more than thirst. Even mild dehydration can impact your focus, memory, mood, energy, and overall brain performance—yet most peop...
Women Are Not Small Men! Why Fitness Advice Is Failing Half the Population | Dr. Stacy Sims
Most health and fitness advice for women is based on research done in men. That’s something we need to rethink.
On this episode of The Dr...
The 5 Root Causes of Autoimmune Disease (And How to Start Healing)
Autoimmune disease is often treated as something random, lifelong, and out of your control. But what if it’s not your body malfunctioning—what if it’s...
The Real Reason You Age (And How to Slow It Down) | Dr. Eric Verdin
We tend to think of heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s as separate problems. But what if they all stem from the same underlying process?
6 Root Causes of Migraines (And How to Fix Them)
Migraines aren’t just headaches and if you’ve ever had one, you know how debilitating they can be. But they’re not random, and they’re not just geneti...
The Mental Health Crisis Starts in the Gut | Dr. William Li & Dr. Mark Hyman
It’s easy to think of mental health as something happening only in the brain. But more and more, we’re seeing how closely it’s tied to what’s going on...
Feeding Kids Is Hard—Here’s What They Actually Need
Most parents are doing their best but the modern food environment is working against them. Between ultra-processed foods, constant marketing, and conf...
We Can Detect Cancer Years Earlier—So Why Aren’t We?
Most of medicine is built around snapshots. You feel something, you test for it, and by the time you find it, you’re already behind.
But...
Can’t Fall or Stay Asleep? Your Sleep Questions Answered
Sleep is one of the most important and most overlooked drivers of your health. If you’re struggling to fall asleep, waking up at 2–4am, or getting a f...