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I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.
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I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.
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Treatment originates outside you healing comes from within.
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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
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Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. 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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