Why Your Cholesterol Is High—and How to Start Fixing It in 10 Days

Welcome to Office Hours. This is our dedicated one-on-one space to go deeper, get clearer, and explore what truly moves the needle for your health. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and each week we're going to pull back the curtain and share the insights, the research, the lessons that don't always make it into our conversations with guests. Because at the end of the day, you are the CEO of your own health, and for many of you, your family's health too.

And you might not feel it all the time, but you have far more power and agency than you realize. I'm glad you're here. This episode is brought to you by Function Health, empowering you to live 100 healthy years with over 160 lab tests for just $365 a year, and use the code MARC 2026 to get $50 off your membership. You get your lab results back and your cholesterol's high, and almost immediately the conversation goes in one direction. Lower your cholesterol, cut fat, start a medication.

But what if that's not the full picture? What if cholesterol isn't the root problem at all? It's just a deeper signal of something going on in your body. What if in just 10 days you could start shifting that in the right direction, not by chasing a number, but by fixing what's driving it in the first place? In functional medicine, we look at cholesterol in a very different way.

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