366: Dr. Andrew Weil - Spontaneous Happiness
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Andrew Weil (IG: @drweil) received a degree in botany from Harvard and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
He’s the founder and director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine.
Dr. Weil is a founder and partner of the growing group of True Food Kitchen restaurants.
He’s an internationally recognized expert on medicinal plants, alternative medicine, and the reform of medical education. Dr. Weil is the author of many scientific articles and 15 books.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Foraging edible prince mushrooms
- Are you suffering from nature deficit disorder?
- Social interaction is good for your emotional well-being
- Strive for contentment
- The path to spontaneous happiness
- The goal of meditation
- Yoga helps quiet the mind
- Allow yourself to experience lowered moods
- Social media sabotages your attention span
- An anti-inflammatory diet can help treat depression
- Stay physically fit through daily activities
- Secrets to healthy aging in Okinawa
- Omega-3 fatty acids and mental health
- How vitamin D impacts your mood
- Multi nutrient supplements help PTSD sufferers
- The method of using a mantram
- Sound has a profound influence on your nervous system
- Unplug your consciousness from the news
- Zoonotic diseases & COVID-19
- Eat less animal foods and more plant foods
- Using psilocybin for depression, OCD, and end of life care
- The impact of companion animals
- Matcha contains the calming amino acid L-theanine
- Dr. Weil’s experience with intermittent fasting
- Practicing 4-7-8 breathing to help with sleep
- 2 capsules of valerian root extract help induce sleep
- Melatonin is good for immune & cancer protection
- The importance of dreams
- Keep a dream journal for lucid dreaming
- Foraging for medicinal mushrooms (polypores)
- Chaga mushroom is used for the treatment of cancer
- Astragalus is used to prevent the cold & flu
- Steam rooms vs. saunas
- Expressing gratitude improves your mood
- Strive for an inner state of balance & resilience
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| 0:00.0 | When you look at the few hunter-gatherer societies that are left on the planet today, |
| 0:05.5 | there is no depression there. You don't see anxiety disorders and you try to think, well, what's different there? |
| 0:10.8 | Everything's different. they're eating natural |
| 0:12.5 | diets they're not disconnected from nature they have the productive kind of |
| 0:17.5 | social interaction they're getting physical activity but they're certainly not |
| 0:21.5 | distracted they're not having their minds influenced by addiction to devices, to screens, to social media. |
| 0:29.5 | I think all that is, the effects of that on brain function and on moods is profound. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 366. I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your |
| 0:46.7 | health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations |
| 0:50.8 | about health and wellness, covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, |
| 0:55.3 | mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:57.3 | And this week Dr. Andrew Wiles back on the show. |
| 1:00.0 | He received a degree in botany from Harvard Medical School. |
| 1:04.0 | He's the founder and director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. |
| 1:08.0 | The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. |
| 1:14.0 | Dr. Wallace also the founder and partner of the growing group of the True Food Kitchen |
| 1:18.4 | restaurants. He's an internationally recognized expert on medicinal plants, alternative medicine, and the reform of medical education. |
| 1:26.2 | Dr. Wile is the author of many scientific articles and 15 books. |
| 1:30.7 | So when it came to preparing for this second interview, as I just mentioned, he's got a lot of books. |
| 1:36.0 | So I decided to hone in on a specific one, being spontaneous happiness, and base our discussion |
| 1:41.9 | off of that, but it's a far-reaching conversation and we get into all kinds of great stuff. |
| 1:47.0 | Some of the highlights include social media sabotages your attention span, |
| 1:51.0 | how an anti-inflammatory diet can help treat depression, |
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