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The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
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Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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