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“If you are tired of the diet wars that pit one trend against another, you’ll be overjoyed at The Pegan Diet, Mark Hyman’s latest masterpiece on food and health. In it, you’ll learn how to combine the best of the paleo and vegan diets to prevent disease, heal the body, and soothe the soul. This book is a true roadmap for anyone who wants to apply the food as medicine approach to their health.”―William W. Li, MD, author of Eat to Beat Disease

“Read this book right now to learn how to use food as medicine. Dr. Mark Hyman has the rare ability to show you how to eat in order to feel better while also fixing our food system from the ground up!”―Dave Asprey, author of The Bulletproof Diet

"Now, more than ever, we need to utilize the power of food to help our society overcome the epidemic of chronic disease. The Pegan Diet offers an easy-to-implement solution for anyone to get started on their health journey using 21 basic principles that show how we can use food as medicine."―Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"If you want to eat for longevity, brain health, and gut health, this is the book for you. Dr. Hyman will show you how what you put on your fork three times a day is the most powerful tool you have to transform your health and the health of our planet."―Eva Mendes

“One of Dr. Hyman’s greatest attributes is the ability to change his mind and advice when new evidence and studies prompt course corrections in his recommendations. This humble and laudable ability is on display in The Pegan Diet, where hard and fast ‘rules’ give way to savvy, doable guidelines for achieving optimal short and long-term health. If great eating advice, without the ‘my way or the highway’ philosophy, is what you seek, buy this book!"―Steven R. Gundry, MD, author of The Plant Paradox

"The line between medicine and food is thinner than people think. Both go into the body, where they affect the overall health of the organism. Mark Hyman understands that, and wants to make sure that you do, too. His new book combines aspects of other diets you may have heard of, paleo and vegan, to develop a new way of living and eating. I prescribe this book!―Questlove

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Mark Hyman, MD, is the founder and senior advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, and host of the leading health podcast The Doctor’s Farmacy. He is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Young Forever; The Pegan Diet; Food Fix; Food; and Eat Fat, Get Thin.

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Customers find the book provides good information and simple explanations on healthy eating. They find it practical and easy to read, with great recipes. Many mention that the book helps them increase longevity and create a health span that is equal to their best life. However, some feel the book is not worth their time or money, with lots of wasted pages and few recipes. Reviews are mixed on the writing style, with some finding it readable and informative, while others say the recipes are a bit complicated and have too many ingredients. There are also mixed opinions about the vegan content, with some finding it less restrictive than vegan or paleo diets.

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116 customers mention "Information quality"107 positive9 negative

Customers find the book provides good information about healthy living. It goes into detail on every subject and provides simple explanations. They say it's a great summary and a good purchase. The book includes a host of information about the right foods to eat, the whys, and the reason so many diets have in common. Readers learn a lot about themselves through the book. They describe it as practical and bold.

"I loved this book.. it's well thought and explained super well. The information is easy to process and easy to implement. This is a must read" Read more

"...Dr. Hyman is bold, unapologetic, and very practical in what he writes. I have since read and incorporated several of his works into my daily routine...." Read more

"Educational with some very good information. It would be better with recipes that use more "conventional" ingredients...." Read more

"...Now, with the book. The book is great, I am learning a lot about myself (physiologically), as well as to what is not healthy for me, we have been..." Read more

9 customers mention "Practical"9 positive0 negative

Customers find the book practical and easy to read. They appreciate the good tips and simple approach. The book is described as an important must-read.

"...Very practical and straight forward. Functional medicine is the only way doctors should practice...." Read more

"...It has just the right mix of science and practicality. Highly recommend!" Read more

"...The Pegan Diet didn’t disappoint. A great resource and a practical, easy approach to live our longest and best life." Read more

"I like how easy it is to read and do to the point! I feel refreshed with new information for my food consumption!!! Praise God!" Read more

9 customers mention "Recipes"9 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the recipes in the book. They mention that each recipe is long with many ingredients.

"...I love the recipes and have already made 2 of them! Love the work that Mark Hyman is doing, it's truly a gift." Read more

"...At the end it gives you recipes to apply what the book teaches." Read more

"...Good basic recipes that you can tweak to your taste...." Read more

"Easy to read and includes great lifesaving info! Includes recipes and quick tips you can highlight for reference. Great read!" Read more

8 customers mention "Longevity"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the book helpful for extending their lifespan. They say it provides common sense advice and practical, easy strategies to live a long and healthy life. Readers mention that the book offers a healthier, less-risky plant-based diet.

"...and common sense into guidelines promoting health, weight loss, and longevity..." I've listen to Dr. Hyman's advise on healthy eating and applied it..." Read more

"...If you want to be healthy and live a long life, this is the way to go." Read more

"...This book is a great guide for helping to increase your longevity and create a health span that is equal to your life span!..." Read more

"...a bridge for paleos who may want to move to a healthier, less-risky-for-the-organs longterm, plant-based diet...." Read more

8 customers mention "Weight loss"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the book helpful for weight loss and glucose control. They say it resets their metabolism, helps them feel good, and lose weight. The book also provides more energy.

"...blending science and common sense into guidelines promoting health, weight loss, and longevity..." I've listen to Dr. Hyman's advise on healthy..." Read more

"...For sure the 12 hour overnight fasting helps to lose weight. Reducing carbs such as bread & rice helps also...." Read more

"...I have more energy and can do more things. I’m 71 and raising my great granddaughter, an active 8 yr old ,and want to be around to see her graduate...." Read more

"...This has been a big help getting glucose under control and understanding the effects oh good in fad diet‘s...." Read more

39 customers mention "Writing style"21 positive18 negative

Customers have different views on the writing style. Some find it readable and informative, with a straightforward approach. Others mention that some recipes are complicated, expensive, and long. There are also complaints about missing recipe photos and poor printing quality. Overall, opinions vary on how easy the book is to understand and whether it provides useful information.

"I loved this book.. it's well thought and explained super well. The information is easy to process and easy to implement. This is a must read" Read more

"...chapters are quite short (not a lot of detail), and the entire back half is just recipes...." Read more

"Well written, good update. I prefer depth of experience with current knowledge and this delivers...." Read more

"...are hard to read and everything smashed in so unfortunately it’s not easy to read, since they printed 200 page book and 100 pages the page numbers..." Read more

10 customers mention "Vegan content"5 positive5 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the vegan content. Some find it a mix of paleo and vegan foods, less restrictive than vegan or paleo or keto, and encouraging variety. They mention that food is treated as medicine and prevention, and each recipe is long with many ingredients. Others say it's not for vegans.

"Less restrictive than vegan or paleo or keto...combines the best to offer variety & encourages you to look at ways to cope with/ deal with / heal..." Read more

"...As a vegan I also thought it was a bit biased. It’s not vegan friendly!!..." Read more

"...rarest and most mindful books about healthy eating, where food is treated as medicine and as prevention to many chronic diseases." Read more

"...money this book is written for the fast food nation of 1990 not a 2021 paleo vegan. I seriously want my money back...." Read more

11 customers mention "Value for money"3 positive8 negative

Customers dislike the book's value for money. They say it has too many wasted pages, few recipes, and not great ones. The book is not easy to follow and is not useful for them.

"...of his other books, I found this to be just a rehash and not worth the purchase...." Read more

"...This book has very few recipes and not so great ones. Also this book uses eggs and meat which is not something I’m interested in either...." Read more

"...If this is your first Dr Hyman book, it’s a great summary and a good purchase...." Read more

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If you are looking for a diet book, look elsewhere. Mark Hyman offers a common sense, well researched, and not afraid to call it like it is approach to eating. I first ran into his work about 3-4 years ago after receiving abnormal lab reports…my liver enzymes were out of whack and I was so tired that I needed five 8 oz cups of morning coffee just to function each day. In my mid-50s at the time, I was mentally and physically exhausted and ready to call it a day by 3:00 p.m. I was not overweight and followed religiously what I thought was a great diet based on medically sound books from the 1990s which I discovered were now sorely outdated. An alternative medicine doc locally told to me get off of wheat and that was Step 1 in the right direction. Within 48 hours of doing so, I didn’t even need coffee to get going, but I was still wiped out and doing some serious soul searching for a new me. A couple of days later, my wife and I were panning through new books at Costco. She pointed to books that she thought I might enjoy reading. I bought both of them. One of them was Food: What The Heck Should I Eat? (Hyman, 2018). That book grossly altered the way that we now think about food. (Dale Bredesen’s The End of Alzheimer’s was the other book…another excellent, different sort of read.)

The Pegan Diet is a continuation of Food: What The Heck Should I Eat? - more common sense, more updates. I highly recommend both books. Three years or so after first adopting Hyman’s “farmacy” and “food is medicine” philosophy, my only wish is that we had more medical practitioners just like him. Dr. Hyman is bold, unapologetic, and very practical in what he writes. I have since read and incorporated several of his works into my daily routine. Although I continue to age, I now feel at least 20 years younger. My brain is sharp, I have amazing energy, and I no longer crash in the middle of the day. I cannot say enough!

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Good info; recipes could be improved
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Educational with some very good information. It would be better with recipes that use more "conventional" ingredients. Many of these would require that I drive a couple hours to get to a market that sells these esoteric ingredients.

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Great book, false description. (Updated)
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When I talk about false description, the product page was describing the book as new, but when I received it, the book already had some highlighted word, meaning that someone had already had the book and highlighted those words, it also had some kind of business card for some weird hospital insurance.

Now, with the book. The book is great, I am learning a lot about myself (physiologically), as well as to what is not healthy for me, we have been following the recipes and I can tell that I feel better, as well as my family.

Overall is a great book, only issue that I didn’t get what I paid for.

Update: after the seller contacted me and apologized for the issue, I was given a refund. I am changing my review to 5 stars, for how well, and professionally the issue was handled.

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When I talk about false description, the product page was describing the book as new, but when I received it, the book already had some highlighted word, meaning that someone had already had the book and highlighted those words, it also had some kind of business card for some weird hospital insurance.

Now, with the book. The book is great, I am learning a lot about myself (physiologically), as well as to what is not healthy for me, we have been following the recipes and I can tell that I feel better, as well as my family.

Overall is a great book, only issue that I didn’t get what I paid for.

Update: after the seller contacted me and apologized for the issue, I was given a refund. I am changing my review to 5 stars, for how well, and professionally the issue was handled.

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Lisa Nicole
The Pegan Diet -- it's a lifestyle!!
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Dr. Hyman's "The Pegan Diet" book is very informative! You will NOT be disappointed with this purchase. As Dr. Hyman quickly noted, "the Pegan Diet is an un-diet -- a simple set of principles blending science and common sense into guidelines promoting health, weight loss, and longevity..." I've listen to Dr. Hyman's advise on healthy eating and applied it to my life for years. I've read a lot of health books and a ton of health and fitness articles by reputable doctors and nutritionists. If you are serious about good health -- start here, start now!! This book has ALL the fundamentals and then some. Get this book and follow his recommendations. Stay healthy!!

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The Pegan Diet -- it's a lifestyle!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2023
Dr. Hyman's "The Pegan Diet" book is very informative! You will NOT be disappointed with this purchase. As Dr. Hyman quickly noted, "the Pegan Diet is an un-diet -- a simple set of principles blending science and common sense into guidelines promoting health, weight loss, and longevity..." I've listen to Dr. Hyman's advise on healthy eating and applied it to my life for years. I've read a lot of health books and a ton of health and fitness articles by reputable doctors and nutritionists. If you are serious about good health -- start here, start now!! This book has ALL the fundamentals and then some. Get this book and follow his recommendations. Stay healthy!!

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Jeffrey H. Flemings
For long-term Hyman fans: no new information
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021
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Dr. Hyman has taught me so much over the years, so I ordered his latest book immediately (I also ordered a copy for my best friend). I just finished reading it. Overall, I didn't really learn anything new. Pretty much everything in this book is a repeat of his prior content.

If you're new to Dr. Hyman, this is a great way to dig in. But if you've read the other books, save your money.

Also, it didn't really seem like there was enough content here for a book - it appeared they were trying to s t r e t c h it out to be proper book length. The chapters are quite short (not a lot of detail), and the entire back half is just recipes. It felt to me like he owed his publisher a book and they just quickly cobbled this one together from prior content.

A little disappointing but I'm glad he is pushing this message of food as medicine.

Oh one other thing - he recommended a probiotic. I looked into it because it's from a company I already buy supplements from. It costs $102 for a 15 day supply. That's about $7 a day - and more than $200 a month. That is not realistic for average people, so just be aware, this entire way of living isn't for "regular people." I had to laugh when Dr. Hyman bragged about being able to "make it" feeding a family of 4 on a salary of $27,000 40 years ago; buddy, that's $100K today. A less privileged way of thinking about these issues would make a lot of sense for today's readers, I think.

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Lisy
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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Dr. Hyman goes into detail on every subject and explains them that so a child could understand how important the right foods are for one’s overall well-being. His recipes are new, simple and yummy!

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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022
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One of the best & practical books about healthy living. You only have to adjust a few things in your meals & when you are eating them. For sure the 12 hour overnight fasting helps to lose weight. Reducing carbs such as bread & rice helps also. I was able to lose 4 pounds in less than 2 weeks. In less than 1 month I have lost 6 pounds & this is without much exercise.
Thank you Dr. Hyman!!!

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Graeme Maclean
Great resource
Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2025
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Amazing resource for health consciousness. Highly recommend

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Maria Guadalupe
Nutrición funcional
Reviewed in Mexico on August 7, 2023
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De los mejores libros en nutrición y medicina funcional para llevar un estilo de vida saludable.

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Natalia
Life changer
Reviewed in Spain on November 3, 2023
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La verdad que ha sido un cambio radical desde que he leído este libro (junto con Young forever). Soy vegetariana así que sigo la dieta que propone con alguna adaptación. Desde que introduje los polifenoles y puse coto a los alimentos con alto índice glucémico, he mejorado muchísimo en ciertas cuestiones. Recomendable

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Aucun intérêt et mélange pleins de concepts différents

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Reviewed in Brazil on March 25, 2021
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Como sempre os livros do dr Mark Hyman são puro ensinamentos

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