How To Use Food as Medicine To Heal the Body and Prevent Disease

There are 37 billion chemical reactions happening within your body every second. And every single one of these reactions requires vitamins and minerals to make it work.

This is why what you put on your fork is the most important thing you do every day, and it’s why I say food isn’t like medicine – food is medicine. It’s information, and it’s the most powerful drug on the planet. It influences your capacity to live a rich, energetic, connected, soulful life.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss how to use food as medicine. I share the principles of eating an optimal diet, a list of the foods we should avoid, my number-one food philosophy, and more!

How To Use FOOD AS MEDICINE To Heal The Body & PREVENT DISEASE! | Dr. Mark Hyman

Mark Hyman, MD

About the Author

Mark Hyman

Mark Hyman, M.D., is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine.

He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, a fourteen-time New York Times best-selling author,