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

Narrated by: Andrew Weil

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

In this complete 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 best-selling 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.

©2002 Andrew Weil (P)2002 Andrew Weil

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.

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.

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.

Common sense

Any additional comments?

Dr. Weil is a joy to listen to. I enjoy his conservational tone. He doesn't confuse his listeners with difficult to understand science, rather explains it in layman's term. I could listen to Dr. Weil all day long.

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.

Easy to Follow

Clear and relevant information that was easy to follow. Dr. Weil takes the fear out of changing how we live for better health.

If you haven't read this book.. why haven't you??

This is a wonderful book on health and wellness. I can't wait to read more of Dr.Weil's books. He is extremely knowledgeable and he gives it to you straight. I enjoyed every minute of this audiobook and was truly disappointed when it was over. For your well being do yourself a favor and read this book.

Informative and Simple

Very informative and easy to understand. I look forward to putting what I learned into practice for myself and my family.

Great book, well researched - opinion of fellow MD

As a surgical resident with personal interest in yoga, healthy eating, fitness, and a curiosity about integrative medicine, I bought this book expecting to hear a bunch of quacky $&@# with an occasional gold nugget advice that was doable and actually backed by evidence-based medicine. What I found was a plethora of solid, well-founded advice in a format that was so easy to understand I'm tempted to buy the book for my 70+ year old parents in hopes that they may find a better balance in the way they live their lives and their approach to health. I may not be able to eat tempeh, piles of spinach and get 7+ hours of sleep as a resident, but on the whole, the book certainly makes me more mindful of my habits and gives me some hope for creating a long term plan for health.