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Now expanded and updated–the #1 New York Times bestselling book in which one of America’s most brilliant doctors shares his famous program for improving and protecting your health

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health lays out Dr. Andrew Weil’s famous week-by-week, step-by-step plan that will keep your body’s natural healing system in peak working order. It covers diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, and environment–all aspects of daily living that affect health and well-being. This revised edition includes 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, together with a greatly enhanced source list of information and supplies. Inside you will learn how to

• develop eating habits for greater health and well-being
• start an effective exercise program based on walking and stretching
• work with breathing patterns to decrease stress and improve energy
• solve sleeping problems
• eliminate toxins from your diet
• minimize environmental hazards in your daily life

Plus–programs tailored to the specific needs of pregnant women, senior citizens, overweight people, and those at risk for cancer.

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“If there is a heaven, sixtysomething Weil is headed there, but if he practices what he preaches, probably not for some time yet.”
– London Times

“Dr. Andrew Weil is an extraordinary phenomenon.”
–The Washington Post

About the Author

Andrew Weil, M.D., has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and for fifteen years was a Research Associate in Ethnopharmacology at the Harvard Botanical Museum. He has traveled extensively throughout the world collecting information about the medicinal properties of plants, altered states of consciousness, and healing. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine and other national publications. He is under constant demand to lecture and appear on radio and television. He is currently Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, and Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he practices natural and preventive medicine. Eight Weeks to Optimum Health is his seventh book.

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You have in your hands a tool for changing your life, an Eight-Week Program for improving your health and gaining access to the power of spontaneous healing in your body. I will guide you through this program step by step, explaining the changes I will ask you to make in how you eat, how you exercise, how you breathe, and how you use your mind. I will recommend vitamins, minerals, and herbs you can use to protect your body's healing system, and I will give you ideas about how you can change long-standing patterns of behavior that impair optimal health.

The Eight-Week Program consists of small steps that build on each other until, but the time you complete it, you have laid the foundation for healthy living. You can then decide how much of the program you want to maintain on a permanent basis. I assume that you want to make changes in your life -- otherwise you wouldn't be reading this book. I see my job as pointing you in the right direction. I have no doubt that you can change, because I know from my own experience that people can do so if they really want to.

In moving files recently, I came across a yellowed clipping from The New York Times of August 12, 1971, with the headline: "Meat-Eating 230-Pound Doctor Is Now 175-Pound Vegetarian." The story concerns a twenty-nine-year old physician in rural Virginia who gave up animal foods except for dairy products, with a resultant increase in energy, well-being, and overall health. There is a photograph of the doctor in his kitchen preparing fresh corn. He has a full black beard, is wearing blue jeans and a work shirt, and looks content. Next to the picture is his recipe for a rich corn soup containing milk and butter, and another recipe for a barley-and-vegetable casserole that calls for a quarter-cup of peanut oil. According to the article, the doctor's interest in consciousness led him to experiment with yoga and meditation, and "since yoga calls for a vegetarian diet, he gave up meat 'in order to really do it right.' He has been a vegetarian ever since, to the amazement of his friends, who remember him as a voracious meat eater and a fat person while at Harvard ... In one year on his new diet he has reduced from 230 to 175 pounds. His recurring colds and allergies have vanished..."

My beard is no longer black, and I have not been able to maintain my weight at 175-pounds. I am still mostly vegetarian (I have eaten fish for the past 10 years), though now I don't make rich soups with milk and butter , use oil in such quantities, or ever cook with peanut oil. I think I am wiser with age and in general feel much happier now than I did when I was twenty-nine.

I will try to accomplish three things in the pages that follow. First, I want to try to share with you my vision of the body's healing system and encourage you to rely on it in all matters concerning your health. Second, I want to convince you of the importance of developing a healthy lifestyle and the possibility of doing so quickly and easily. Third, I want to give you very specific suggestions about those aspects of lifestyle I consider most important to health and healing. I know that I cannot motivate you to undertake the Eight-Week Program -- you must do that yourself -- but since you have read this far, I believe you are already interested in moving forward, and I will assume that you now want to know what moving forward entails and how to do it.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; Expanded,Updated edition (August 28, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 034549802X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345498021
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.07 x 0.69 x 9.2 inches

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Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. His forthcoming book, "Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better – and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own," will be released on April 25th, 2017.

Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health and the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology. Dr. Weil received both his medical degree and his undergraduate AB degree in biology (botany) from Harvard University.

Dr. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Dr. Weil's books have been sold, including "Spontaneous Healing," "8 Weeks to Optimum Health," "Eating Well for Optimum Health," "The Healthy Kitchen," "Healthy Aging," and "Why Our Health Matters."

Online, he is the editorial director of www.drweil.com, the leading web resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He can be found on Facebook (facebook.com/drweil), Twitter (twitter.com/drweil), Instagram (instagram.com/drweil) and Pinterest (pinterest.com/drweil).

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J. VanEngelenhoven

probably one of the best health books out there

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2007

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I've done a lot of study on becoming healthy and this is probably one of the best books I've seen on this subject. Dr. Weil has set up a really great, easy to implement way to get started in the path toward great health. I first "read" this book via an audio book and had to buy the hardcover book so I would have something to refer to for each of the week's changes and so I could reread all the great ideas. I also love that he doesn't require you to buy his products, he has products available but you don't have to use them. Its more for your ease if you choose and because so many people have asked him for them. This program really does help your body to heal itself and maintain good health. Don't expect an overnight success but you will feel so much better it can feel like it might be miraculous. Instead you should just ask your HMO why they don't suggest these things if they are really focused on prevention instead of intervention.

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Excellent book for those who are sick and don't know ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015

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Excellent book for those who are sick and don't know where to start out. This book gives you a solid foundation of essential things your body needs to heal itself. It takes commitment though! The things are not hard to do, but you really need to do them consistently and form good habits, which is the hard part. But if you really want it, you will do it easily.

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D. Peterson

One of the best resources I've found for advice on health

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2020

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I found this book 10 years ago when I was 43 and struggling with a variety of semi-serious health issues. I credit this book as one of the 3 key components for my return to health. Additionally, it introduced me to Dr. Weil's website where I go before jumping into any new health trend or diet. Best resource I've found for good, data-based research on what may really be good or bad for my health.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2023

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I don't know, most of Andrew Weil's kinds of advice and recommendations I've already heard from my wife over the past couple decades. Nothing all that new here in this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2010

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This is a very sound and easy progrram to follow and I am stil doing many of the suggested things from each of the 8 weeks. I read the book in Oct. 2009. Dr. Weil has been around in the field of health for a long time and I find his help optimal. The breathing exercises are truly great and I find them helpful whether in bed, on the job or out in the world. Good breathing is most helpful to any program one chooses as it relaxes the body as well as energising it. It does for me anyway. I was a shallow breather most of my life and this program keeps me on track daily!!! Can't ask for more than that. Eating certain veggies, grains, fish and sticking with the basics make for wonderful habits to keep ones body doing the most for itself. We are amazing machines when treated with respect and having gratitude!!! This is very prominent in this program. Go for it!!!

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Leonora Licata

Great book.

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2021

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Weil is an genius. get it - if only for the information about water consumpton!

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nocalgal

All of Dr. Weil's books contain valuable information.

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2017

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Over the years I have bought an read most of Dr. Weil's books and have felt they contained valuable, usable information. This book does as well, but without an index or even search capability, it's not possible to find specific subjects. If you initially read it straight through and use bookmarks and notes you can then get back to those subjects, but if something new comes up and you want to find info on it, you're out of luck. I would have given it 5 stars if it had had a clickable index and search function. As is, I'm returning it for a refund.

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L. Long

LOVE this book!

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2013

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Really practical advices, easy to read and understand.
I own many of Dr. Weil's books and this one is probably one of my favorite.
I actually bought the audio book first, but the content was so useful that I wanted to have the book as a reference to look things up.
I've incorporated many of his suggestions and I have more energy and don't get sick as often.
Highly recommend this to everyone who care about their health!!!

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Bruno

Quality of product

Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2019

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Looked good when it came in package.

Heather Paterson

Great place to start!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2018

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Great book for basis of plan for health as expected from author!

GsB

Insightful and easy to follow program

Reviewed in India on May 29, 2017

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A must read for everyone. Insightful and easy to follow program. Can be customised as per individual need/demands.

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G. J. De Vries

godfather of the integrative medicine movement

Reviewed in Germany on May 24, 2014

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gesund leben ist HOT. andrew eil war fruh darbei, wass er vor 20 jahren geschrieben hat gilt nog immer und ist bestimmt etwass verbessert. aber im grossen ganzen braucht mann kein anderes buch als manual. leicht zu lesen, uberzeugend und amerikanisch. mittlerweile verdient er auch geld mit dem verkauft von vitaminen usw. aber dass kan man sein lassen.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2017

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Great read and great programme

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