Self-Healing Strategies

by Andrew Weil

With Self-Healing Strategies: Simple Measures for Protecting Your Health, Staying Well, and Living Longer, Dr. Andrew Weil returns to teach the sequel to his first complete learn-at-home audio course for optimum health. On volume one, Taking Care of Yourself, listeners learned the foundations for lifelong wellness: eating for maximum health and pleasure, creating a "whole person" fitness program, and accessing the mind's proven ability to heal the body. Now, with Self-Healing Strategies, Dr. Weil introduces us to the specific arts of self-healing. These six practical one-on-one sessions cover:

• Keeping Your Immune System Strong - Dozens of specific ways to activate and support the body's own defenses against infections and illness

• Understanding Herbal Medicine - Dr. Weil's expert guidance on how to use herbal remedies and preparations to boost your natural healing potential

• Preventing Chronic Disease - How to avoid heart attack, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and more, often without turning to pharmaceutical drugs

• Living Longer and Aging Gracefully - Recommendations for reducing the risk of age-related problems and staying healthy throughout your lifespan

• Exploring Alternative Therapies - Homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda, bodywork, energy medicine, and other alternative therapies - how they work and how to choose among them

• Living Well in the 21st Century - The future of integrative medicine and (until it arrives) how to get the most out of conventional and alternative medicine today.

Genres: Health, Self Help, Nonfiction

Audio CD

First published October 15, 2002

About the author

Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care that encompasses body, mind, and spirit. He is the author of many scientific and popular articles and of 14 books: The Natural Mind, The Marriage of the Sun and Moon From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen) Health and Healing, Natural Health, Natural Medicine; and the international bestsellers, Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit (with Rosie Daley) Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being; and Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (issued in paperback with new content as You Can’t Afford to Get Sick).

Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States, and through its Fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.

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Reviews

[Emily Mellow · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been decades since I read an Andrew Weil book, but I just heard him on a podcast and realized I should look him up again.
I listened to him read the audiobook, which is exactly what you should do. It's conversational, and he comes across as so reasonable, rational, and simply full of information & good ideas.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really quick to finish. Had good information explaining certain alternative medicine practices and what the belief behind them is. Very interesting.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I didn't completely hate it. Just parts of it. Weil is a voice of reason when it comes to promoting nutritious eating, exercise, sleep, and connectedness in relationships in conjunction with conventional medicine to live a healthy life, but when he goes down the road of alternative medicine and promoting things like homeopathy, I just have to strongly disagree. His mindset seems to be "If it doesn't harm, what's the harm in trying?" But I think giving credence to such practices that have been proven to be false and misleading, gives a louder voice to a movement that doesn't need to be encouraged. I couldn't comfortably recommend this to someone without serious disclaimers. But I am trying to go through some of his books to be able to intelligently discuss them with a fan of his soooo...I will soldier on.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting... Makes you take a pretty good look at some of your habits and what you eat. Also makes me wonder how many buckets of vitamins, herbs, tonics and supplements Dr. Weil knocks back in a given day.

[Courtney Stockstill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Author says he tries to be an "Open Minded Skeptic". That sounds about right!

[Charlotte · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unreadable.

[Tamminh · Rating 4 out of 5]

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