Mark Hyman Age, Wife, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki

Full Name	Mark Adam Hyman
Profession(s)	Physician, Author
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	6'
Eye Colour	Hazel brown
Hair Colour	Salt & Pepper
Career
Awards & Honours	• Linus Pauling Award for Leadership in Functional Medicine (2009) • Books for a Better Life Award • Nantucket Project Award • Christian Book of the Year Award for his work on the book The Daniel Plan
Personal Life
Date of Birth	November 22, 1959 (Sunday)
Age (as of 2023)	64 Years
Birthplace	Barcelona, Spain
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Nationality	American
Hometown	Massachusetts, US
School	AISP
College/University	• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US • Ottawa University School of Medicine  • University of California, San Francisco, US
Educational Qualification(s)	• BA in Asian Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1978-1982) • Doctor of Medicine (MD) at the University of Ottawa, Canada (1983-1987) • Family Practice Residency at the University of California, San Francisco (1988-1990) [footnote=Mark Hyman - LinkedIn]
Religion	Judaism [footnote=YouTube - Mark Farrell]
Food Habit	Pegan [footnote=Best Self]
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Divorced
Affairs/Girlfriends	• Mia Lux Koning (host, comedian, facilitator, digital creator) • Brianna Lee Welsh (2022 - Present)
Family
Wife/Spouse	Ex-wife- Mia Lux Koning (div. 2021) (host, comedian, facilitator, digital creator)  Note: He was married twice before marrying Mia Lux. [footnote=Dr. Hyman]
Children	Daughter- Rachel Liesel Hess  Son- Misha JB Hyman (Founder, CEO at The Health Warrior Project)
Parents	Father- Saul Hyman (entrepreneur) Mother- Ruth Sidransky (writer, advocate for the deaf) (died in 2017)
Siblings	Sister- Carrie Alison Hyman (elder) (died in 2012)  Brother- Paul Hyman (Complex Claims Analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance)
Other Relatives	Stepfather- Richard Rosenberg Stepmother- Jesse Hyman
Social Media
Instagram	Dr Mark Hyman
Facebook	Mark Hyman, MD
YouTube	Mark Hyman, MD
LinkedIn	Mark Hyman, MD

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mark Hyman

• Born to a deaf mother, Mark Hayman is fluent in American Sign Language. 
• His parents divorced when he was five. After that, he was raised by his mother. 
   

• In 1966, his father, Saul Hyman, married Jesse Hyman. 
• In the following year, his mother, Ruth Sidransky, married Richard Rosenberg and moved to Toronto with Mark and Carrie.
• His sister was married and divorced three times. 
• He completed his MD with the academic honor of Magna Cum Laude.
• He had majored in Chinese and wanted to go to China to study Chinese medicine. However, he dropped the plan because he didn’t want to spend his 20s in a fascist dictatorship.
• He can also speak Spanish. 
• He applied to medical school while majoring in Buddhism. He studied the Medicine Buddha. 
   

• He is a passionate Yoga practitioner. He worked as a yoga teacher in New York City. 
• After medical school, he moved to rural Idaho to work as a family doctor in a small clinic. 
• Later, he worked as an emergency department physician in Massachusetts.
• He came across the rough concept of Functional Medicine before he started medical school at Cornell. He moved into a house with some folks; one of them was a PhD student in nutrition. The PhD student gave a book to Hyman titled “Nutrition Against Disease by Roger Williams.” Hyman was inspired by this book. Then, around 1995, Hyman suffered from chronic mercury poisoning while living in China. Traditional doctors were unable to help him. While looking for the root cause of the problem, he developed the model of Functional Medicine. Since then, she has advocated the concept. It is a controversial form of alternative medicine as there is no definitive clinical evidence of its effectiveness.
• Once Hyman's friend told him about an event called A Fest, where he met Mia Lux, who was the host of the event. They dated for three years and then got married.
• From April 1996 to December 2004, he was the Co-Medical Director at the Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts.
• He became Board President for Clinical Affairs for the Institute of Functional Medicine in 2001.
• In 2005, he founded The UltraWellness Center in a small shopping mall in Lenox, Massachusetts after leaving Canyon Ranch.
• Around the same year, Hillary Clinton appointed Dr. Mark Hyman as a medical adviser to Bill Clinton after Clinton's 2004 quadruple bypass surgery. Hyman met Hillary Clinton at a fund-raiser in New York when she was in the Senate. Since then, the doctor has become part of the Clintons’ circle of friends and advisers. His relationship with the Clintons brought him into the limelight. 
   

• A renowned TV personality, he appears on various shows and networks, including CBS This Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The View, Fox, and CNN.
• Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hyman participated in a Partners In Health program to bring medical care to Haiti.
• Hyman frequently appeared on the Katie Couric Show until the show's cancellation in 2013.
• In September 2014, he started serving as a Senior Advisor at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine.
• In the same year, Hyman was featured as an expert in the American documentary film Fed Up, produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, which revolves around childhood obesity. 
   

• In 2014, he collaborated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the book Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak. Hyman wrote the preface in which he advocated the removal of thimerosal from vaccines as a precautionary measure. Additionally, Hyman convinced Kennedy to remove controversial chapters that incorrectly linked thimerosal to autism.
• In 2015, he collaborated with Tim Ryan to introduce the ENRICH Act into Congress to fund nutrition in medical education. 
• In 2016, Hyman, along with various environmentalists and civil rights leaders, called for federal investigations into the U.S. fluoridation policy that controlled the adjustment of fluoride to a public water supply. Hyman wrote that communities of color are at particular risk of adverse health impacts.
• He writes a blog called The Doctor’s Farmacy on health and welfare topics.
• He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post.
• Apart from that, he is also a contributing editor to Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal. He has also served as its editor-in-chief. 
• He is a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author who has written several books on nutrition and longevity. 
• In December 2013, Hyman came into the spotlight with the book The Daniel Plan, which ranked number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Hyman co-authored the book with Pastor Rick Warren and Daniel Amen. 
   

• Other books written by him include The 10 Day Detox Diet, The 10 Day Detox Diet Cookbook, The Blood Sugar Solution, The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook, The UltraMind Solution, The UltraSimple Diet, UltraMetabolism, and UltraPrevention.
• In March 2016, he released the book “Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health.” In the book, he introduced a new weight-loss and healthy living program stating that saturated fats do not cause heart disease and obesity, processed carbohydrates do. 
   

• He encourages focusing on using food as medicine to support longevity, energy, mental clarity, and happiness.
• He promoted a diet called peganism in his books. It is a low-carbohydrate high-fat gluten-free diet. Interestingly, it combined principles of paleo (meat, fats, and a few vegetables/fruit) and vegan diets (with no animal products whatsoever). In the book, he described the diet as,

If God made it, eat it; if man made it, leave it."

• Many dietitians termed peganism a fad diet, a plan that claims results of fast weight loss without scientific evidence to support its claims.
• United States-based website Quackwatch listed Hyman's 2003 book “Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life” as one of their non-recommended books saying it was unreliable because it promoted misinformation.
• He is the founder and chairman of the Food Fix Campaign, which aims to transform the food and agriculture system through policy.
• He hosts the podcast, The Doctor’s Pharmacy.
• Dr. Hyman was nominated by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa for the President’s Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.
• He also serves as the board president of clinical affairs of the Institute for Functional Medicine.
• He was inducted into the Books for Better Life Hall of Fame along with Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Michael Roizen.
• Dr. Hyman played an important role in introducing the Take Back Your Health Act of 2009 to the United States Senate, which promotes reimbursement for lifestyle treatment of chronic disease.
• In 2022, he co-founded the subscription-based testing lab Function Health.