Tier 03 · Health Advisory Board

Tier 03 · Dr. Mark Hyman

Food as Medicine: Why Your Company's Food Strategy Is a Health Strategy

The single biggest input into chronic disease, energy, and cognitive performance is also the most ignored: food. Drawing on three decades of functional medicine practice, Dr. Hyman lays out the food-as-medicine framework — and what every organization needs to know about how their food strategy is, actually, their health strategy.

Key takeaways

  • 01Why the modern food environment is the leading cause of chronic disease
  • 02The five categories of food that drive metabolic dysfunction — and the five that reverse it
  • 03How an organization's food strategy compounds over years of employee health
  • 04The functional medicine root-cause framework, applied to workplace nutrition
  • 05Why 'wellness perks' (smoothies, salads) without strategy don't move the needle
  • 06What it would take to build a workplace food environment that actually heals

Sample agenda

  • 0–10 min — Food as the underappreciated leverage point
  • 10–30 min — The five disease-driving food categories
  • 30–55 min — The functional-medicine root-cause framework
  • 55–75 min — Workplace food strategy as health strategy
  • 75–80 min — Q&A

Slide outline

  • Slide 1 — Food as the most ignored input
  • Slide 2 — The five disease-drivers and the five reversers
  • Slide 3 — Functional medicine root-cause framework
  • Slide 4 — Workplace food strategy
  • Slide 5 — Why 'wellness perks' don't move the needle
  • Slide 6 — A workplace food environment that heals

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