Meet Your Coach, Mark Hyman, M.D.

Respected medical consultant, New York Times bestselling author, educator, lecturer, and practicing physician Mark A. Hyman, M.D., is a leader in the emerging field of functional medicine. Functional medicine is ideal medicine made real; it is a new medical model—a more successful way of treating human illness and disease—born of recent technological and clinical advances applied in a fresh methodology.

Editor in Chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the premier peer-reviewed professional journal in the fields of integrative medicine and alternative medicine, Dr. Hyman is the Medical Editor of Naturals Solutions, dedicated to helping consumers improve their health and the quality of their lives, and on the editorial board of Body and Soul and Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal. Dr. Hyman collaborates with Harvard Medical School’s Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Hyman’s New York Times bestseller, Ultrametabolism, published in more than 12 languages, also hit The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists and was the #1 health book on Amazon the year it was published. A companion PBS special, created by WLIW around Dr. Hyman and his UltraMetabolism teachings, has aired nationwide. He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Program That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Scribner), winner of the Books for a Better Life Award, which honors the best self-improvement books published each year. His books, the New York Times bestseller, The UltraSimple Diet: Kick-Start Your Metabolism and Safely Lose Up to 10 Pounds in 7 Days and The UltraMetabolism Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes That Will Turn On Your Fat-Burning DNA were published in 2007. He is also author of The Five Forces of Wellness: The Ultraprevention System for Living an Active, Age-Defying, Disease-Free Life (Nightingale) and NutriGenomics, The New Science of Health and Weight Loss (2006), and creator of The Detox Box (Sounds True), a unique, easy-to-follow program designed to help people significantly rejuvenate their health and vitality by cleansing their bodies from toxins in the environment, diet, and spirit. Dr. Hyman’s next book, The UltraMind Solution, is planned for March 2009. There are nearly 1 million copies of Dr. Hyman’s books in print in the U.S.

Dr. Hyman is the founder and Medical Director of The UltraWellness Center, in Lenox, Massachusetts. UltraWellness is Dr. Hyman’s name for a life of vibrant health and vitality. He has helped countless patients achieve UltraWellness based on his core therapeutic paradigm that once underlying health problems (predominantly toxicity and inflammation) are addressed, the body’s natural systems adjust and function again at the their natural, optimum state, promoting automatic weight loss, increasing energy, and removing the causes of many chronic diseases.

Dr. Hyman graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University, Magna Cum Laude from the Ottawa University School of Medicine, and from the University of San Francisco’s program in Family Medicine at Community Hospital of Santa Rosa. He is board certified in Family Medicine, and resides in western Massachusetts with his family.

Click here to read an excerpt from his book The UltraSimple Diet