Dr. Andrew Weil’s Guide to Optimum Health

A Complete Course on How to Feel Better, Live Longer, and Enhance Your Health - Naturally

By: Andrew Weil MD

Narrated by: Andrew Weil MD

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

The best info integrated medicine

I have listened to this over and over. It inspires me to eat healthy and to live a healthy lifestyle. Dr Weil is interesting and easy to listen.

Great introduction

This is a small introduction to Weil's integrative medical philosophy. The neophyte of medical studies may be supriesed to know most of the medical scientific breakthroughs have done us well in the acute setting but as for chronic illnesses we are but managing disease. The integrative approach starts with prevention and if this is not possible looks at all posibilities of helping the body regain its homeostasis.

Amazing resource for optimum health

I have been health-conscious for most of my life, making sure to eat good Whole Foods and exercise. My recent diagnosis with breast and uterine cancer was a shock.
Dr. Andrew Weil’s book provides a wealth of information that you don’t find in main stream health care. He does a great job at writing as if he were sitting across the table from you. My biggest take away is that there is not just one approach to any health event. It is a combination of self love, self advocacy, some basic health knowledge of different medicine approaches and the importance of using food for healing.

solid information

Dr. Weil has an easy to listen to voice. He breaks down fairly complex information into digestible sections. While some of this information may be old to some it is nice to hear it from his perspective and insight.

Excellent summary on healthy living

This is a great starting book for anyone interested in living a healthy life. Not so much new material for those who already read a few books on modern nutritional approaches to staying or becoming healthy, but if you haven't read anything I this topic or not much than this is an excellent starter that will provide a super solid foundation and enough additional material to get you thinking. After this then read How Not To Die.