Dr. Weil profile

[Guest guest]

from the Mar/Apr 2003 issue of the AARP Magazine, " The Fearless 50 --

America's greatest innovators over 50 "

Weil, 60, Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of

Arizona.

Weil challenged the medical estalishment's core beliefs about healing--and

proved that many of grandma's cures weren't as nutty as we thought. Before

his books, including " Health and Healing " and " Eight Weeks to Optimum

Health, " began finding an audience in the 1980's, doctors scoffed at healing

traditions of the past and of other cultures. But the rebel physician's

central message--that the body can often heal itself with proper nutrition,

mental conditioning, and herbal therapies--has now gone mainstream. Still,

many of his ideas remain controversial. " I should hope so! " he says. If I

didn't make people think and disagree, I wouldn't be doing my job. " Yet he

hasn't totally abandoned Western medicine. " If I have a car accident, don't

take me to an herbalist, " he says.

Carol A

(Weil holds a degree in biology (botany) from Harvard, is a graduate of

Harvard Medical School, clinical professor of internal medicine at U of Az in

Tuscon, and author of nine books. His website is <A

HREF= " www.drweil.com " >www.drweil.com</A>. You can

subscribe to his newsletter at . I have found his info and advice

to be well-considered and cautious, altho he does not speak specifically to

issues of WLS post-ops. Maybe he WILL at some point if enuf of us write to

him and ask).

[Guest guest]

from the Mar/Apr 2003 issue of the AARP Magazine, " The Fearless 50 --

America's greatest innovators over 50 "

Weil, 60, Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of

Arizona.

Weil challenged the medical estalishment's core beliefs about healing--and

proved that many of grandma's cures weren't as nutty as we thought. Before

his books, including " Health and Healing " and " Eight Weeks to Optimum

Health, " began finding an audience in the 1980's, doctors scoffed at healing

traditions of the past and of other cultures. But the rebel physician's

central message--that the body can often heal itself with proper nutrition,

mental conditioning, and herbal therapies--has now gone mainstream. Still,

many of his ideas remain controversial. " I should hope so! " he says. If I

didn't make people think and disagree, I wouldn't be doing my job. " Yet he

hasn't totally abandoned Western medicine. " If I have a car accident, don't

take me to an herbalist, " he says.

Carol A

(Weil holds a degree in biology (botany) from Harvard, is a graduate of

Harvard Medical School, clinical professor of internal medicine at U of Az in

Tuscon, and author of nine books. His website is <A

HREF= " www.drweil.com " >www.drweil.com</A>. You can

subscribe to his newsletter at . I have found his info and advice

to be well-considered and cautious, altho he does not speak specifically to

issues of WLS post-ops. Maybe he WILL at some point if enuf of us write to

him and ask).