Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health [Audiobook, Illustrated, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Andrew Weil (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002

The Latin word for doctor (medicus) literally means "teacher": one who helps patients learn to heal and stay healthy on their own. Now, our most trusted authority for alternative healing invites you to attend his first comprehensive audio learning course with Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health. On this complete nine-hour curriculum, Dr. Weil helps you take charge of your well-being with proven, natural solutions for boosting your body's self healing function, building energy, and overcoming everyday health challenges. You'll learn the same practical approach taught by Dr. Weil at his sought-after live workshops-at a fraction of the regular cost. Join this bestselling author to explore such key health questions as the healing power of your mind, your optimal diet, the benefits of herbal medicine, and much more.

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On this complete 8-hour curriculum, Dr. Weil personally helps you take charge of your total well-being with proven, natural solutions for boosting your bodys self-healing function, building energy, and overcoming everyday health challenges --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564559785
• ISBN-13: 978-1564559784
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXTENSIVE overview of sound natural living options, June 2, 2005

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Tamara "all-natural-nut" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health (Audio CD)

I have the Audio CD's of this program, and I am on my second listen, learning even more than I learned the first time. This packed FULL of info. What I like most about it is Dr. Weil's attitude in presenting all the info. He is not passionately critical of the medical profession to the point where you feel turned off to his advice (like a certain Kevin Trudeau that I've heard). He gives quite a detailed explanation of all aspects of healthy living from the foods you eat, shopping at healthfood stores, options for relaxation techniques, various different types of healing alternatives and which ones seem to work for different ailments.

He treats the listener like an intelligent person who knows their body better than anyone else, and gives you several sound options for healing yourself and/or just living healthy. I am thoroughly enjoying this.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Returning to Your Center, February 15, 2006

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health (Audio CD)

"Your mind can elicit a healing response when even conventional medicine has proven ineffective." ~Dr. Andrew Weil

For months I've been listening to this CD set, trying to integrate the principles of Dr. Weil's teachings into my life. By increasing whole grains (I now eat a mixture of pumpkin seeds, roasted corn and roasted soy), discovering new natural remedies and exploring the ideas of how the body is always seeking to regain balance, I have learned a great deal about integrative medicine. Instead of just trying to solve problems as they occur, Dr. Weil seeks to encourage a preventative lifestyle that includes healthy choices and healing herbs.

Can we interact with allergens without having allergies?
Does our body truly want to be healthy and what are the obstacles to healing?
Should you avoid fructose?
Is eating pasta better than bread?
What is disconnection syndrome?
How can you become more self-reliant in regards to your health?
Which is more healthy - olive oil or chocolate?
How does your skin react to emotions?

By reigning in the forces of nature, there is a huge potential for healing. Cooking can become a healing meditation, buying yourself flowers promotes healing and remembering to spend time in nature can encourage positive emotional states.

Dr. Weil is very intuitive and is not held down by any single system of belief. He fully explores all possibilities and takes remedies from a wide variety of alternative medicine traditions.

I've learned so much by listening to these CDs. Simple ideas like adding blueberries to pancakes or eating more fiber with meals can increase your health.

In a world of confusing health advice, fad diets and doctors who seem opposed to using natural remedies, Dr. Weil bring clarity to the topic of integrative medicine. I am only left contemplating why most doctors would so freely give me medications with horrendous lists of side effects and fear beautiful plants, herbal remedies and comforting solutions to life's ever changing complexity.

Dr. Weil makes complete sense! I hope doctors everywhere will start reading his work and listening to his CD sets. Also look for Dr. Andrew Weil's Mindbody Tool Kit with breath work, meditation, guided imagery and sound therapy.

There is so much to learn about health and Dr. Andrew Weil is truly an enlightened teacher who can give you many of the keys to your own healing process. Fascinating stories about spontaneous healing are also included in this CD set.

~The Rebecca Review

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This guy will change medicine, March 30, 2006

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Robert Mckee (tucson, az) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health (Audio CD)

Originally I thought this guy looked crazy and was too Spiritual and weird for me to learn from.

Then I listened and found out he is a medical genius and probably will revolutionize medicine in the next 100 years. His methods for being healthy are the best out there right now. This program covers everything and should be given to everyone who is alive.

I am 24 and super healthy and people ask me why I do all this health stuff? I am not sick but it interests me.

It blows my mind that people don't care to learn about their health. IF YOU HAVE A BODY AND LIVE, THEN YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH THE BEST METHODS OF TAKING CARE OF IT.

I've read a lot of health books and learned a lot of stuff on nutrition and the body, this is by far the best MEDICAL approach to health that covers all areas.

This guy is a genius.