Collective Insights - Andrew Weil, MD - Stress Reduction, Psychedelics and Breathwork: Exploring Integrative Medicine on Stitcher

Each of us is a complex ecosystem of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and sensations, all of which play into our state of health. I’m not just interested in relieving my patients’ symptoms; I’m interested in helping them see their current distress in the context of the greater journey their soul is undertaking.

comes to their mental health. How many of them will burn out before they can achieve their dreams due to biological factors? By looking more carefully, we can see that there is an underlying cause triggering these symptoms. I firmly believe we can cure ourselves of this “disease” of elusive well-being. Especially in the United States, we are seeing

Resist pharmaceutical solutions for medical problems if you can. While antidepressants, antianxiety meds, and more improve some people’s lives, they are often not the best solution. Usually, there are alternatives available; many mood disorders, such as depression, are beginning to be understood by Western medicine to be treatable with diet, ample

Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.

It’s not “preventive” medicine; it’s proactive medicine, and I believe it has the potential not only to change the lives of individuals but also to relieve vast amounts of suffering in our society as a whole.