Dr. Andrew Weil MD

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with Dr. Andrew Weil MD - an internationally recognized expert on medicinal plants, integrative medicine and wellness. As the founder and Director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Weil is leading the global effort to develop a comprehensive integrative medicine curriculum.

Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he also serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health as well as the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology.

Dr. Weil has traveled the world collecting information about medicinal plants and alternative methods of treating disease. The author of 15 best-selling books and many scientific articles, Weil is a renowned expert on alternative plant-based healing. Matcha is the latest in his array of natural, plant-based options. Use the code Primal15 for a discount on Dr. Weil’s matcha, at www.matcha.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:22.3	Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint.com. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:25.1	Today we have a very special guest, Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D.
0:28.5	He is one of the most famous world-renowned leaders and pioneers in the field of integrative medicine.
0:33.6	He is an internationally recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle,
0:38.3	his philosophy of healthy aging and his critique of future of medicine and health care,
0:43.5	combining his Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventative medicine.
0:48.6	Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
0:55.0	Hey, Dr. Weil, welcome to the show. Thank you. Good to be here. So what the audience doesn't know,
1:00.7	but I am so honored to have you here because 20 years ago, I had a terrible hand injury that
1:06.1	was, ooh, it spawned so much inflammation. I had to ice my arms constantly.
1:11.2	I couldn't even lift a fork to my mouth.
1:13.3	And the only person out there that was even talking about inflammation because people had said,
1:18.9	hey, don't take these pills that are an anti-inflammatory, find another way.
1:23.4	And I forget, I mean, you've written over 20,000 books, but I forget if it was the, you had a CD,
1:29.4	boy, I'm dating myself, it might even be a tape, but something, you had meditations.
1:33.7	I'm not sure if it was eight weeks to optimal health, but I will just tell you, thank you so much,
1:37.6	because your voice, and I almost want to cry right now, because hearing that was the only thing I had in my moments of just
1:44.4	pure like nonstop pain was to like be able to listen to you. And so the fact that you're on
1:51.2	the show today makes me so happy to be able to tell you how much I benefited from your work.
1:55.9	Thank you for telling me. I'm very glad to hear that. So let's start off with, you know, we're going to get into
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