Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil—broadly referred by this name preceded by "Dr.", or simply as Dr. Weil—is an American physician, author, spokesperson, and broadly described "guru" for holistic health and integrative medicine, whose names also constitute an emerging brand of healthcare services and products in these fields...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth8 June 1942
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
dark giving drug
...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer...
giving stronger antibiotics
If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.
essence balance
The essence of health is inner balance.
fighting essential-oils may
I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.
breathing imagine inhale
Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
heart civilization disease
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
people modern-life world
In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.
food-culture america excess
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
running brain different
Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.
spiritual giving people
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.
lying ego making-love
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.
powerful practice well-being
There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work.
powerful sick people
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.
age care good-health
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.