
Andrew Weil
American physician and author (born 1942)

American physician and author (born 1942)
Andrew Thomas Weil (; born June 8, 1942) is an American physician and author known for advocating integrative medicine, an approach that combines conventional medical treatment with selected complementary and alternative therapies. He founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1994. Weil has also written numerous popular books on health, healing, nutrition and ageing, several of which have appeared on bestseller lists. Weil studied biology and ethnobotany at Harvard University and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1968. His early interests included psychoactive drugs, medicinal plants and altered states of consciousness. After medical school, he conducted research on marijuana and other drugs at the National Institute of Mental Health, was affiliated with the Harvard Botanical Museum from 1971 to 1984, and travelled in Latin America and elsewhere studying medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices...
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