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I've always been called controversial. I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Andrew Weil

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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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I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
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By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
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Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.
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The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
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Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable
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Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.
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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.
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You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
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Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.
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Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
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I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.
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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.
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Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
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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.
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Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.
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Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.
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I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
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