Mark Hyman: meet the doctor who says he can make us live to 120 [Video]

Mark Hyman and I are five minutes into our chat when he picks up the phone from a fellow doctor. “Hi Eva,” he says, scurrying off. “I have to take this”. He reappears 10 minutes later. “We had to talk about a patient,” Hyman mumbles. The superstar doctor is running a seven-day retreat at the Six Senses in Ibiza: the Young Forever programme, €15,000 a head. He’s busy. He’s thriving. I feel lucky to catch him at all. 

Hyman is a world-renowned physician and longevity expert; the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center in Massachusetts and Senior Advisor at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an 15-time New York Times bestselling author and the founder and chairman of the Food Fix campaign, which aims to reform the food and agriculture system in the US. His efforts to combat obesity among Americans made him into a household name when, in 2012, …