Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power
by Andrew Weil
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Now expanded and updated: The audiobook in which one of America's most brilliant and respected doctors gives us his famous program for improving and maintaining health–already the program of choice for hundreds of thousands.EIGHT WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine on a practical week-by-week, step-by-step plan, covering diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, and environment. And he shows how his program can be tailored show more to the specific needs of pregnant women, senior citizens, overweight people, and those at risk for cancer, among others.
Dr. Weil has added the most up-to-date findings on such vital subjects as cholesterol, antioxidants, trans fats, toxic residues in the food supply, soy products, and vitamins and supplements.
Preventive in the broadest sense, straightforward, and encouraging, EIGHT WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH has proved to be, and in this updated version will continue to be, an essential audiobook.
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In Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil translates the brilliant insights and discoveries he outlined in his acclaimed bestseller Spontaneous Healing into a practical plan of action: a week-by-week, step-by-step program for enhancing and protecting present and lifelong health. The Eight-Week Program sets up a foundation for healthy living that will keep your body�s natural healing system in peak working order. With clearly defined and authoritatively informed recommendations, Dr. Weil explains how to-Build a lifestyle that protects you from premature illness and disability-Fine-tune your current eating habits so that your diet is more nutritious-Walk and stretch in regimes that satisfy weekly exercise requirements-Safeguard show more your healing system by adding four antioxidant supplements--vitamins C and E, selenium, and mixed carotenes--to your diet-Incorporate five basic breathing exercises for greater relaxation and energy-Benefit from visualization, overcome sleeping problems, and test and filter your water supply-Make art, music, and the natural world more important parts of your lifePlus--a dozen tailored programs that address the specific needs of pregnant women, senior citizens, overweight people, and those at risk for cancer. show less
Dr. Weil is amazing, and I believe the plan would work, but it is very demanding.
Dr. Weil takes a wholistic approach to health care. This book provides stories of health, recipes, suggested supplements, and changes to lifestyle. He provides an outline for improving health through eight weeks of progressive changes and experiments such as fruit or water fasts.
I skimmed this book and didn't read or use it.
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Andrew Weil, one of America's best known advocates of alternative medicine and holistic healing, attended Harvard Medical School. He has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Harvard Botanical Museum. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Associate show more Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, University of Arizona. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health and Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price -which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Andrew Weil graduated from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, medical botany and mind/body interactions. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Services. Dr. Weil is the author of several books which includes the titles "The Natural Mind" (1972), "From Chocolate to Morphine" (with Winifred Rosen, 1983), "Natural Health, Natural Medicine" (1990), "Spontaneous Healing" (1995), and "Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition" (2000). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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