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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.

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