Andrew Weil Quotes

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• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

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  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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• If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

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  Breathing, Advice, Would Be

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• Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

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  Healing, Doctors, Medicine

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• You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

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  Healing, Sick, Choices

  "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

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  Basketball, Mean, Golf

  Andrew Weil (2011). “Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

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  Healing, Mind, Treatment

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2013). “8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

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  Skills, Effort, Effort And Time

  Andrew Weil (2011). “Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing”, p.42, Hachette UK

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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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  Powerful, Simple, Ill Health

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• Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

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  Resilience, Balance, Demand

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2013). “8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable

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  Disease, Lifestyle, Related

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• Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

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  Stress, Breathing, Panic Attacks

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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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  Giving, Stronger, Antibiotics

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

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• Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

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  Food, Health, People

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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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  Years, Perfect, Would Be

  "Why Plants Are (Usually) Better Than Drugs" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The essence of health is inner balance.

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  Essence, Balance

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• Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance. Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding a human being.

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  Order, Profound, Balance

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

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  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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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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  Breathing, Imagine, Inhale

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• I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

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  Stress, Reality, Thinking

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

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  Healing, Perfection, Balance

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• True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.

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  Heart, Nuts, Risk

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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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  Toxic, Body, Way

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• Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

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  Exercise, Epidemics, Play

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

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  Healing, Diagnosis, Economy

  "The Wrong Diagnosis". Article by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2009.

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