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In this excerpt, Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D. shares on the Functional Medicine Model and his experiences as a doctor and a patient that led him to embrace it.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life Excerpt with Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D., a best-selling author, a respected medical consultant and a leader in the field of functional medicine.

Kevin: Welcome, everyone, to this first installment of The Healthiest Year of Your Life Program. You're in for a treat tonight, I promise. My guest is Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D., who is a respected medical consultant, New York Times best-selling author and 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. As Dr. Hyman says, "the future of medicine is available now." Functional medicine moves beyond diagnosis-based medicine to allow treatment of the underlying causes of disease. It works with the body's natural forces to achieve what Dr. Hyman calls ultra wellness, lifelong good health and vitality. Doesn't that sound good?

So what I want to do now is welcome Dr. Hyman to the program. This is exciting. You're one of my own personal heroes in terms of medicine and I've read all your books and I'm really excited to have you here.

Mark: Well, it's a great opportunity to be able to talk about the work I do and it's really grown out of my own experience of being sick and my own patients and learning a whole new field, called functional medicine.

Kevin: Well, why don't you talk a little bit about how you got here and your story from when you first started and now, how it's developed into functional medicine?