Right now, we need to utilize the power of food more than ever. We all know that nutrition is a huge missing component when it comes to the global pandemic we are facing. Those with a chronic disease are almost 10 times as likely to die from COVID-19. Those with obesity are almost 3 times more likely to die. It is critical for our population to focus on health and use food as medicine to bolster health, thereby reducing the overall burden on our health care system which is already buckling under the burden of COVID-19, layered on top of chronic disease (which affects 6 out of 10 Americans).

From over twenty-five years of experience as a Functional Medicine physician, Dr. Hyman knows that people want to get healthy, but they don’t know where to start. Diet wars in the age of social media have made things even more confusing, pitting advocates for the low-carb, high-fat paleo diet against advocates of the exclusively plant- based vegan diet and dozens of other diets leaving many bewildered and confused. What’s missing is a fundamental understanding that food contains powerful molecules that can actually prevent, reverse, and even treat disease. We need to shift our thinking from dogmatic diets to a food as medicine approach. The truth is that it’s not that hard to eat in a way that heals us, our communities, and the planet.

That’s why he wrote “The Pegan Diet.”

In “The Pegan Diet,” he explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet (whole foods, good fats, limited refined carbs, limited sugar) and combine them with the best aspects of a vegan diet (a plant-rich diet with loads of colorful, disease fighting phytochemicals) to create a delicious diet that is not only good for your brain and your body, but also good for the planet. This book is inclusive. It’s for meat eaters, vegans, keto folks, beginners, seasoned dieters who are looking for balance, and anyone in between.

“The Pegan Diet” shows you exactly how food can work in your favor through 21 principles Dr. Hyman has discovered in his practice as a physician who has seen firsthand how food can help or harm. Learn how and why food is medicine and so much more.

How to eat like a regenetarian to help save our planet

• Eating to boost mood and to live longer and healthier
• What is the truth about beans, soy, and grains – are they healthy or not?
• What is the right amount of meat to eat, if any?
• Why we should mostly avoid dairy
• Treating sugar like the drug that it is

The time is now. We need to uplevel our health and stop making excuses. “The Pegan Diet” is a simple, yet robust and complete, guide to making sense of all the confusing food advice – from a health advocate you can trust.