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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.

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
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Philadelphia
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