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“It's not just what substances you put on your skin. Inappropriate inflammation is rooted in diet, how you handle stress, how you rest, and your exposure to environmental toxins. - llskin.jp”

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Author:Andrew Weil

“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.”

“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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“I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried.”

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“Your body can heal itself. It can do so because it has a healing system. If you are in good health, you will want to know about this system, because it is what keeps you in good health and because you can enhance that condition. If you or people you love are sick, you will want to know about this system, because it is the best hope for recovery.”

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Book:Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

Source: Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

“Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.”

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Book:The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem

Source: The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem

“The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.”

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Author:Andrew Weil

“In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.”

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“Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.”

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“Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.”

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“Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.”

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“I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.”

Knows World Past Culture Involved Substance

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“Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.”

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“Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.”

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“More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.”

Ifs Said Asks Patient Physicians Diagnosis Skillful Right Questions

Book:Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine

Source: Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine

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

Has Beens States Whole Lost Healing Balance Perfection Restoring

Author:Andrew Weil

“I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.”

“I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs Controversial

Author:Andrew Weil

“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.”

“Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.”

Helping Attention Focus Meditation Concentration

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“I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time.”

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“I think it's worth trying to do something about obvious sources of stress in your life. But even more important is learning and practicing methods to neutralize the harmful effects of stress on the body and mind. There are many possibilities, anything from meditation and yoga to listening to relaxing music. My personal favorite is simple breathing techniques - they're very effective, take very little time, and they're free.”

“I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.”

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“Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.”

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Author:Andrew Weil

“As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.”

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Book:You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care

Source: You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care

“One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.”

Way Walks Dog Mental Health Obvious

Author:Andrew Weil

“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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“You've got to experiment to figure out what works.”

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

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“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.”

“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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“Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.”

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“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”

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“Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.”

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“American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.”

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“As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.”

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“By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.”

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“Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.”

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“Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.”

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“Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.”

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“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.”

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“For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.”

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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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“It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.”

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“Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.”

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“Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.”

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“The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.”

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“The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.”

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“We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.”

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“Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.”

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