diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c241c5b..4cb459b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ Helpful will try really hard to show the source code. It shows the
 source code for interactively defined functions (unlike the built-in
 Help) and falls back to the raw sexp if no source is available.
 
+Set `helpful-hide-docstring-in-source` to hide the docstring in source
+code.
+
 ### View Callers
 
 ![screenshot](screenshots/helpful_refs.png)
diff --git a/helpful.el b/helpful.el
index b9ee878..6ac9526 100644
--- a/helpful.el
+++ b/helpful.el
@@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ To disable cleanup entirely, set this variable to nil. See also
   :type 'function
   :group 'helpful)
 
+
+(defcustom helpful-hide-docstring-in-source nil
+  "If t, hide the the docstring source code header.
+
+This is useful because the formated documentation is already
+displayed in it's own header, and you may not want to display it
+twice."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :group 'helpful)
+
 (defcustom helpful-set-variable-function
   (if (< 29 emacs-major-version) #'setopt #'setq)
   "Function used by `helpful--set' to interactively set variables."
@@ -1195,6 +1205,14 @@ hooks.")
 (defun helpful--syntax-highlight (source &optional mode)
   "Return a propertized version of SOURCE in MODE."
   (unless mode
+    (when helpful-hide-docstring-in-source
+      (let ((doc-string (ignore-errors
+                          (nth 3 (read source)))))
+        (when (stringp doc-string)
+          (setq source
+                (replace-regexp-in-string
+                 (regexp-quote (prin1-to-string doc-string))
+                 "\"...DOCSTRING...\"" source t t)))))
     (setq mode #'emacs-lisp-mode))
   (if (or
        (< (length source) helpful-max-highlight)