DR. MARK HYMAN: How to create a peak mind, prevent cognitive decline, and optimize your brain and health

Register for free Broken Brain Docuseries - the information shared is life-changing!! Tag @michaeltrainer @drmarkhyman #peakmind #brokenbrain with insights garnered on Instagram 5:00 Intro of Mark Hyman 5:26 My why - my dad - and Mark 6:42 Functional Medicine - accelerating the gap - treating the system rather than medicine by symptom, medicine by cause 7:40 Mercury poison and parasites create spiral of disfunction. Move beyond the name it blame it paradigm 9:59 The multiple causes for disease - it’s not one thing its a multitude of things that can go wrong that need to be corrected 10:30 Immune system, gut flora, and the path to total health 11:11 Our body is resilient, eat-move-stress-sleep-environment-toxic burden - most things don’t require a doctor 11:50 Functional medicine operation manual for the body 12:22 Biotransformation and detoxification 13:00 Real food - hormones, sleep, rhythm, connection, purpose, love and the healthy human 13:30 I don’t treat disease I create health 14:07 Dementia - decades before the first symptoms 15:10 Food - “Biggest single discovery is the concept is that food is information. With every bite you alter your genes, you alter your hormones” 16:00 Every bite changes your gut flora 16:30 Upgrading your biological software 17:23 Well over a billion people around the world that are pre-diabetic 18:00 Fallacy of the food pyramid 18:15 Very poor epidemiological data - creating the worst diabetes epidemic in the history of the human race 19:11 Healthy fat 19:55 Power of vested interests against your health 20:55 Statins increase amyloid - first thing I do is take them off statins 21:25 Epileptic diet - high fat ketogenic diet 21:50 MCT oil is a preferred fuel source for the mitochondria and the brain 22:30 Bad fats - trans fat 22:50 Good fats - fish oil, nuts and seeds, avocado 23:!0 Saturated fat and refined vegetable oils 23:38 Breast milk is full of saturated fat and it is good for you 24:04 Breast milk also good for microbiome 24:24 Dangers of bad oils - omega 6 oils increase depression and violence 25:30 Omega 3 vs Omega 6 25:40 Ansel Keys - saturated fat - Minnesota coronary experiment and flawed study 27:00 Evidence that saturated fat can actually be helpful 28:00 “Its not just about calories its about the information” - next time you are taking a bite think about what kind of fuel you are putting in your body 28:50 Mark Hyman’s personal protocol to optimal living, “Its about being able to show up in your life fully” 29:42 Most of us live in the construct - worry about the past, fear of the future, and we miss the moment. Part of that has to do with disordered brain chemistry. 30:00 Blood-brain barrier - leaky gut and leaky brain - sugar, stress, gluten, food allergies 30:52 No way to know of brian inflammation - except to be depressed, cognitive impairment - these are clues to what is happening 31:30 Fix the things you can to load in your favor 32:01 Do a reset! 10 day detox diet - quick window to see what you could feel like, you can change your brain and biology 33:17 Add in food and nutrient dense information 33:30 doing a 50% fat diet - and dropping things that cause weight gain 33:59 Hormone challenges make you store fat 42:29 Whereas fat reverses the effect - fat for breakfast ups your clarity 35:50 Social life is going out to eat - 3 meals a day on the road, there is a way to do it- “hunt and gather in your environment” 36:00 Nutritional wasteland 36:55 A clear roadmap of where you are going - essential planning 37:25 Brain Health - “eat real food” 38:46 The Daniel Plan - how to you use community - “getting healthy is a team sport” 39:13 Leave the food that man made, eat the food that god made 39:43 How many steps from field to fork, and less sugar and starch 40:17 We can’t tolerate the amount of starches we are eating 40:33 Our diet for millions of years, 10k agriculture, last 100 industrial “food” 41:10 Eat a lot of colorful vegetables and some fruit 41:30 Super foods 42:00 “We can use food as medicine, and if you understand food as medicine then its changes what you are doing” 42:35 Dr. Terry Wahls (episode upcoming) :) 43:55 Take away sugar (recreational drug) and starch will reduce chronic disease, and add real whole food! Register for free Broken Brain Docuseries - the information shared is life-changing! Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube