The Longevity Expert: The Truth About Ozempic, The Magic Weight Loss Drug & The Link Between Milk & Cancer!

**Steven Bartlett** (0:00)
What's your thoughts on milk?

**Mark Hyman** (0:01)
It's problematic. Current dairy is not something we should consume. So, you might not know this, but...

**Steven Bartlett** (0:08)
That's crazy.

**Mark Hyman** (0:09)
Doctor Mark Hyman!

**SPEAKER_3** (0:11)
One of the world leading doctors in functional medicine and an expert in helping people understand how they can live their longest, healthiest life.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:19)
What are your thoughts on his MPEG?

**Mark Hyman** (0:20)
So, we have a massive obesity problem, and we don't have any good solutions.
So, something comes along that makes you lose weight. That's a huge, attractive thing. But the side effect profile on this is scary. People are not aware that...
And by the way, they're thinking of giving it to five-year-old kids, which is just terrifying. But we live in a toxic landscape of enticing, addictive, highly processed food, which is why 93% of us have some metabolic dysfunction. We know that it causes mental health issues, depression, anxiety, ADD, gun violence, shot fired, it kills 11 million people a year. But these are not inevitable problems. So, for example, I had a kid with ADD who was so bad that you couldn't read his handwriting at 12 years old. But after two months, he went from having severe ADD symptoms to excelling in school. And there's so many things that you can do, but people have to understand that you cannot use willpower to control your food behavior. It's a problem of education. For example, if you eat sugar in the morning, cereal, pancakes, bagels, it's the worst possible thing we can do. String training three times a week, 20 minutes, is really key for longevity. And this is really important. We call it the five Fs for getting healthy. But most of us do the opposite.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:26)
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Mark, if someone's just clicked on this podcast, can you tell me why they should stay and listen?

**Mark Hyman** (2:06)
Great question. Great question. The answer is quite simple. You are going to be able to have a window into the future of your health and the future of medicine itself and the way to think about things.
The way you think about your health, the way you think about symptoms you have or diseases you have, what your family members have, the way you think about optimizing your health. You're going to have a window into what the next generation of thinking is about this, a paradigm shift that's akin to Columbus saying the earth is not flat or Galileo saying the earth is not the center of the universe. These are massive scientific paradigm shifts or evolutionary theory by Darwin. Think about physics at the turn of the last century and how much that changed with Einstein's discoveries of relativity.
We are now at that stage in biology where we're understanding for the first time in history of science and medicine, the natural laws of biology and how the body works.

**Steven Bartlett** (3:09)
What is functional medicine? I've heard the word before, but I've never really understood the tree definition.

**Mark Hyman** (3:14)
Yeah. I mean, I don't particularly like the word, to be honest with you, Steven.
I think it has kind of confusing implications for people. But essentially, the way I would describe it is a new way of thinking about solving the puzzle of chronic disease. Looking at root causes, seeing the body as a system, as a network. It's the medicine of why, not what, not what disease do you have, but why do you have it? It's the science of creating health. How do we create health? What are the things that are impediments to health? How do we get rid of those? And what are the ingredients for health and how do we provide those? And it's not that big a list, like we're biological organisms, right? And so functional medicine is a systematic way of thinking. It's an operating system or methodology, a heuristic, let's say, to unpack all of your biology and all the inputs we call the exposome and make sense of what your personal story is and personalize an approach to diagnosis and treatment. So, you know, we always say in functional medicine, you can have one cause that creates many diseases or one disease that can have many causes. So, for example, gluten can cause everything from osteoporosis to autism, to cystophrenia, to rheumatoid arthritis, to anemia, to hair loss, alopecia. I mean, it can cause a million things and it's one inciting event. Or you can have one disease like depression that can be caused by many things. Depression is a symptom, right? It's not a Prozac deficiency, right? It's caused by many factors, it could be that you had a major trauma or a loss. It could be that you're vitamin D deficient. It could be that you're eating gluten, it creates inflammation in your brain. It could be that you're not taking acid blocker for years for reflux because you have the wrong diet and that causes B12 deficiency, that causes depression. Or it could be because you're eating a lot of sushi and that has mercury, that causes depression. Or maybe it's because you hate sushi and fish and you don't need any fish and you have omega-3 deficiency. Or maybe you have insulin resistance and diabetes, that can cause depression and inflammation in the brain. So depression is just a name we give to people who share a collection of symptoms. Most of the diseases we have that we describe as obesity or diabetes or heart disease or cancer, they're not really helpful to understand the true root cause. They're just describing the symptoms as descriptive.