Respected medical consultant, New York Times
bestselling author, educator, lecturer, and practicing physician
Mark A. Hyman, M.D., is a leader in the emerging field of functional
medicine. Functional medicine is ideal medicine made real;
it is a new medical model—a more successful way of treating
human illness and disease—born of recent technological and
clinical advances applied in a fresh methodology. It is, Hyman says,
“the future of medicine, available now.” Functional
medicine moves beyond diagnosis-based medicine to incorporate new
research that for the first time allows treatment of the underlying
causes of disease. Functional medicine is an organized practical
framework for applying all treatments in a model that addresses
the causes of illness and supports health and optimal function.
A broad range of treatments are used that help restore and optimize
normal function and health, including conventional therapies, herbal
treatments, and alternative methodologies in one encompassing, patient-centered
approach.
In his work, Dr. Hyman applies the best of conventional and alternative
medicine with cutting-edge science, placing him at the forefront
of progressive medical care and education in the United States.
A strong and pioneering voice for change in the fundamental way
health care is perceived and delivered, as well as for a new paradigm
for physicians, he has launched an innovative approach that taps
into years of medical research that has not, until now, been translated
into clinical practice in hospitals, homes, and the community.
Editor in Chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine,
the premier peer-reviewed professional journal in the fields of
integrative medicine and alternative medicine, Dr. Hyman is the
Medical Editor of Naturals Solutions, dedicated to helping
consumers improve their health and the quality of their lives, and
on the editorial board of Body and Soul and Integrative Medicine:
A Clinician’s Journal. Dr. Hyman collaborates with Harvard
Medical School’s Center for Complementary and Integrative
Medicine.
Dr. Hyman’s New York Times bestseller, Ultrametabolism,
published in more than 12 languages, also hit The Wall Street
Journal and USA Today bestseller lists and was the
#1 health book on Amazon the year it was published. A companion
PBS special, created by WLIW around Dr. Hyman and his UltraMetabolism
teachings, has aired nationwide. He is co-author of the New York
Times bestseller Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Program That Will Make
You Healthy for Life (Scribner), winner of the Books for a Better
Life Award, which honors the best self-improvement books published
each year. His books, the New York Times bestseller, The UltraSimple
Diet: Kick-Start Your Metabolism and Safely Lose Up to 10 Pounds
in 7 Days and The UltraMetabolism Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes
That Will Turn On Your Fat-Burning DNA were published in 2007. He
is also author of The Five Forces of Wellness: The Ultraprevention
System for Living an Active, Age-Defying, Disease-Free Life (Nightingale)
and NutriGenomics, The New Science of Health and Weight Loss (2006),
and creator of The Detox Box (Sounds True), a unique, easy-to-follow
program designed to help people significantly rejuvenate their health
and vitality by cleansing their bodies from toxins in the environment,
diet, and spirit. There are more than 450,000 copies of Dr. Hyman’s
books in print.
Dr. Hyman has been a guest on NBC’s Weekend Today show, ABC’s
Good Morning America Weekend, CBS’s The Early Show, and ABC’s
The View with Barbara Walters, and 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 Body &
Soul, Elle, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Health, Men’s
Health, Natural Health, Parade, Self, Shape, Town & Country,
and Woman’s World.
Dr. Hyman has testified regarding health promotion and wellness
for the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative
Medicine and has consulted with Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona
on his diabetes prevention initiative. Co-medical Director for eight
years at Canyon Ranch Lenox, one of the world’s leading health
resorts, Dr. Hyman serves on the Board of Directors and faculty
of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a pioneering educational
center for training health professionals in the science and practice
of nutritional biochemistry, molecular medicine, and preventing
and treating the diseases of aging. He is on the Board of Advisors
and faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine’s
Food as Medicine training program.
Dr. Hyman is the founder and Medical Director of The UltraWellness
Center, in Lenox, Massachusetts. UltraWellness is Dr. Hyman’s
name for a life of vibrant health and vitality. He has helped countless
patients achieve UltraWellness based on his core therapeutic paradigm
that once underlying health problems (predominantly toxicity and
inflammation) are addressed, the body’s natural systems adjust
and function again at the their natural, optimum state, promoting
automatic weight loss, increasing energy, and removing the causes
of many chronic diseases.
A popular lecturer, Dr. Hyman speaks on a range of topics including
natural approaches to common health conditions, optimal health,
cardiovascular health, menopause and women's health, brain wellness,
obesity and weight loss, optimal aging, and longevity medicine.
His websites www.ultrawellnesscenter.com and www.ultrawellness.com
empowers health care consumers and practitioners, enabling them
to benefit from the wealth of information and scientific articles
he has gathered on the fundamental causes of illness, wellness promotion,
vitamin and herbals supplements, and more.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Hyman worked as a rural family physician
in the mountains of Idaho, and in China as the Medical Director
for development and planning of an international medical center
in Beijing. He also consulted in Hong Kong on medical centers for
expatriates in Asia. Before joining Canyon Ranch, Dr. Hyman served
in an inner city emergency room in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Dr. Hyman graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University, Magna
Cum Laude from the Ottawa University School of Medicine, and from
the University of San Francisco’s program in Family Medicine
at Community Hospital of Santa Rosa. He is board certified in Family
Medicine, and resides in western Massachusetts with his family.
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