Dr. Andrew Weils Guide to Optimum He..., Andrew Weil, MD
Dr. Andrew Weils Guide to Optimum He..., Andrew Weil, MD
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Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health
A Complete Course on How to Feel Better, Live Longer, and Enhance Your Health - Naturally

Author: Andrew Weil, MD

Narrator: Andrew Weil, MD

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2006


Synopsis

The Latin word "doctor" literally means "teacher": one who helps patients learn to heal and stay healthy on their own. Now Andrew Weil, MD—our most trusted authority on alternative healing approaches—invites you to attend his first comprehensive one-on-one audio learning course with Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health.

On this complete nine-hour curriculum, Dr. Weil personally helps you take charge of your total well-being with proven, natural solutions for boosting your body's self-healing function, building energy, and overcoming everyday health challenges. You'll learn the same practical approach taught by Dr. Weil at his sought-after live workshops—at your own pace, at a fraction of the regular cost.

Join this bestselling author, Harvard-trained botanist, and medical doctor as he explores:
• Healing and the Mind: How your thoughts and emotions influence the health and function of every cell in your body
• Preventing Chronic Disease: Essential steps for protecting yourself against heart attack, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and more
• Your Optimal Diet: A primer on eating for maximum health and pleasure, including insights from the diets of Okinawa and the Mediterranean Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Supplements
• Up-to-date recommendations for protecting yourself from modern environmental dangers, while supporting every system of the body
• Herbal Medicine: Straight talk on the benefits of dozens of herbal remedies and botanicals and how to use them for greatest potency, plus seven more sessions on exercise and fitness, optimal aging, alternative therapies, and much more

"Your body wants to be healthy," explains Dr. Weil. The question is: Are you doing everything you can to optimize your own health? Now, with this trusted voice at your side, you can learn to enhance your health for a lifetime of better living with Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health.

Course objectives:
• Define Integrative Medicine practices and how these forms of medicine are important to treating the whole person
• Discuss the role of diet in optimum health and healing, including specific foods, fats, proteins, supplements (vitamins and minerals), and herbal remedies
• Explore specific preventative and alternative medicine practices, as well as numerous ways to strengthen or keep the immune system strong
• Observe the experience of aging and chronic disease with practical suggestions in relationship to the possibility for optimum health
• Affirm the four areas of physical training that create a complete exercise program for optimal physical and emotional health

About Andrew Weil, MD

Andrew Weil MD, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Weil is the author of many bestselling books, including Healthy Aging, Spontaneous Healing, and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tarah on May 09, 2019

Western medicine is in a terrible place. Obesity and chronic illness and aches are increasing. Preventative, integrated practices are so important. So many people I care about are sick all the time. They don't move and they eat so much processed inflammatory crap and constantly throw antibiotics and......more

Goodreads review by Les on October 20, 2011

This guy's book is even better than his beard! His background in botany and medical education combines for excellent and well formed observations on health.......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Ashori on October 30, 2022

This is perhaps the best book I have read on the idea of health and how to achieve it, maintain it, and where to seek the right help to set yourself up for success. Dr. Weil constantly surprises me with his content. The course content I reviewed on his Integrative Medicine program wasn't impressive......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on May 03, 2021

If your looking for a step toward natural healing and an intro into alternative medicines, pick this one up. I like the idea of holistic healing and utilizing the herbs that have been effective for thousands of years. I like the balance that Dr. Weil puts forth that there is a place for all types of......more

Goodreads review by Mackenzie on June 23, 2017

This is my first Dr. Weil book and I admit I am hooked. His holistic/integrative view of medicine speaks to me in various ways, and the fact that he views psychotherapy favorably as a means to physical health is in line with my beliefs as well. The ONLY reason I put it as 4 stars, is I wish this was......more