Top 35 Mark Hyman, M.D. Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

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2. “Just eat less and exercise more.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

3. “The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

4. “While weight loss is important, what’s more important is the quality of food you put in your body – food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

5. “You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

6. “The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

7. “It’s more important to understand the imbalances in your body’s basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

8. “The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

9. “We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

10. “Chronic disease is a food borne illness.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

11. “The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

12. “It is food – we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

13. “Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

14. “Seems you can’t outsmart Mother Nature.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

15. “There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

16. “Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

17. “Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool – and out of your body.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

18. “Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

19. “I don’t need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

20. “All medicine comes down to this: Find out what’s bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

21. “If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

22. “The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn’t taking another medication.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

23. “Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don’t finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

24. “In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

25. “Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

26. “When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

27. “One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes – what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

28. “The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

29. “Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

30. “Shrinking someone’s stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn’t address the underlying causes.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

31. “Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

32. “Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

33. “Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don’t even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

34. “The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn’t working.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

35. “I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

36. “You are more likely to be overweight if your friend’s, friend’s friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

37. “The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

38. “The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what’s really true about the things that work and the things that don’t, look no further.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.