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Andrew Weil, MD (/waɪl/, born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who is a physician, author, spokesperson, and broadly described "guru" of the alternative medical brands: holistic health and integrative medicine, whose names also constitute an emerging brand of healthcare services and products in these fields.

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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.

Drug, Ego, Lying, Taking, Transcend, Universal

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

Appropriate, Believe, Emotional, Healthy, Turning, Variable

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Uplifting, Inspire, Consciousness, Alter, Change

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

Degrees, Making, Obesity, People, Thinking, Time

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Against, Diagnosis, Disease, Medicine, Treatment

At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.

Contraction, Energy Medicine, Expansion, Mind, Movement, Rhythmic

The essence of health is inner balance.

Balance, Essence, Health, Inner

Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation
relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.

Exercise, Free, Practice, Psychologically, Sleep, Work

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

Years, Perfect, Would Be, Human, Plants, Adapted

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Healing, Mind, Treatment, Originates, Distinction

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

Giving, Health, Simple, Therapeutic, Years

The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH. . . None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

Ideas, Blood, Balance, True, Seven, Maintain

Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.

Spiritual, Moving, People, Potential, Drugs

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

Bones, Calcium, Enough, Men, Ones

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

Beautiful, Flower, Home, Lift

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

Drug, Drugs, Emergencies, Medicine, Secure, Treats

Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

Breathing, Calming, Help, Mindful, Panic Attacks, Stress

True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.

Heart, Nuts, Risk, Disease, Good

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.

Ability, Age, Levels, People, Senior

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

Brain, Different, Learn, Running, Software

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