There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system -… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“If you want to be in optimum emotional health, realize that social isolation stands between you and it. Reach out to others.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Your body can heal itself. It can do so because it has a healing system. If you are in good health, you… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
