Mark Adam Hyman is an American physician and The New York Times best-selling author. He is the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center and a columnist for The Huffington Post. Hyman is a regular contributor to the Katie Couric Show.
Hyman is a proponent of functional medicine, a discredited set of pseudoscientific beliefs; he is the chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine. He was the editor-in-chief and is a contributing editor to Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal focused on functional medicine.
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Education
Hyman graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in Asian Studies. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa and completed his postgraduate training at the University of California, San Francisco's program in family medicine at the Community Hospital of Santa Rosa.
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Career
Hyman started his medical career as a family doctor in rural Idaho and later as an emergency department doctor in Massachusetts. He was the co-medical director at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts, from 1996 to 2004. He opened the UltraWellness medical center in Lenox after leaving Canyon Ranch.
In 2009, Hyman testified before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on integrative medical care. Hyman also participated in a Partners In Health program to bring medical care to Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
In December 2013, The Daniel Plan, a book Hyman co-authored with Pastor Rick Warren and Daniel Amen, became number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Hyman is the author of several books on nutrition and health, such as 10 Day Detox Diet. Hyman was named the Director of the Cleveland Clinical Center for Functional Medicine in September 2014.
In April 2016, Hyman joined environmentalists and civil rights leaders in calling for federal investigations into U.S. fluoridation policy, writing that communities of color are at particular risk of adverse health impacts.
Hyman is a medical adviser for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Quackwatch lists Hyman's 2003 book Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life as one of their non-recommended books.
Bibliography
- The Blood Sugar Solution: 10-Day Detox Diet, (2014-02-25) (ISBN 9781619696051)
- The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now! (ISBN 9780316127370)
- The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life (ISBN 9780310344292)
- Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health (ISBN 9780316338837)
- The UltraMind Solution: The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind (ISBN 9781416549710)
- The UltraSimple Diet: Kick-Start Your Metabolism and Safely Lose Up to 10 Pounds in 7 Days (ISBN 9781439171318)
- Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (ISBN 9780743272568)
- The UltraMetabolism Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes that Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA (ISBN 9781416549598)
- Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Program That Will Make You Healthy for Life (ISBN 9780743448833)
References
Further reading
- Gorski, David (14 April 2014). "Bill and Hillary Clinton go woo with Dr. Mark Hyman and 'functional medicine'". Science-Based Medicine.
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