Andrew Thomas Weil , born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity physician who is a physician, author, spokesperson, and widely describes the "teacher" of alternative medical brands : holistic health and integrative drugs , whose names are also health care brands and products that appear in this field.
Weil studied at Harvard in the early 1960s, bringing him into contact with social scientists David McClelland, Richard Alpert, and Timothy Leary. Weil is known to be somewhat controversial as an informant responsible for the dismissal of Leary and Alpert of Harvard. He graduated cum laude in 1964 from a major in biology and concentration in ethnobotany of medicinal plants, following this with Harvard M.D. in 1968, followed by a one-year internship at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He then completed a year of what was expected to be a two-year training program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Throughout this period, Weil showed a strong curiosity about the growing field of psychopharmacology psychology, accessing it through personal studies and experiments. Weil then spent a decade with the Harvard Botanical Museum (1971-1984), and in a personal journey, exploration, and writing focused on this field. His writings on the relationship between human consciousness, culture, healing, and drug experience arose in regular contributions to the High Times magazine (1975-1983), and in the long books ( The Natural Mind, 1972; Wedding of the Sun and the Moon, 1980; From Chocolate to Morphine, 1983, rev. 1993 & amp; 2004).
Weil became interested in the ideas and practices of complementary and alternative medicine, and went on to play an important role in codifying and building an emerging field of integrative medicine, aimed at combining alternative medicine, conventional evidence-based medicine, and other practices into "system-level" high to overcome human healing through actions in various "dimensions" (biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual). In 2015, Weil worked as an academician at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he was Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology, Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Professor of Public Health. In 1994, Weil founded and has since directed the Center for Integrative Medicine in Arizona. He serves as the founding editor of the seminal OUP series that offers the unproven, unproved best practice method of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library (2009-2015), which includes a special volume in oncology. , cardiology, rheumatology, pediatrics, psychology, and other specializations.
Weil has provided widespread efforts for popular communications encouraging patients to incorporate alternative therapies - the use of nutritional supplements, meditation and "spiritual" strategies, etc.-- into conventional treatment plans. Her extensive and health-related book includes Spontaneous Healing (1995), Eight Weeks to Optimal Health (1997), Eating Well for Optimal Health (2000), The Healthy Kitchen (2002, with chef Rosie Daley), and Healthy Aging (2005), some of which have appeared in the list of best recognized sellers. This popular exposure includes frequent guest appearances (eg, Larry King Live , Oprah , and Today show). Weil blogs for The Huffington Post, and sometimes writing for Time magazine (and recognized in a global list of 100 influential people by them in 2005).
In addition to print, electronic, and audio products that publishers offer, Weil has established several commercial companies (eg DrWeill.com and drweilproducts.com) to offer information, consulting services, and various products; in this case, the name "Dr. Andrew Weil" represents both an individual, and a clear commercial brand. The service though Weil's business includes vitamin advice and a parallel subscription website with his popular books. The products offered include vitamins, personal hygiene and skin care items, orthotics and foot equipment, medical equipment, food preparation equipment, and food product lines. Registered trademarks of the brand include Dr. Andrew Weil for Skin/cosmetic/Skincare Origins and Dr. Andrew Weil Integrative Footwear line.
The development of Weil's ideas and brand has not been without criticism. His experiments with drugs during college and after and his relationship with the Harvard faculty during the early 1960s were commotion had gained attention (eg, from Don Lattin at Harvard Psychedelic Club, 2010). In addition, there are repeated reports where major medical professionals criticize Weil for certain cases in which he has appeared to reject the evidence-based medical aspect, or promote unverified beliefs; and criticism by the scientific watchdog organization because he failed to deny in the case of his writings which have connections to his own commercial interests. She declined to be interviewed by Frontline for their January 19, 2016 episode of health supplements. Finally, academics have brought it to task, in print, to him and his colleagues to downplay the social, structural, and environmental factors that contribute to the aetiology of illness in the West, and to the obvious components of entrepreneurship associated with its building of service and product brands health care.
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Description of subject and brand
Andrew Weil, as an individual and a brand, was described by the EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica as the "American Doctor and alternative and integrative treatment popularizer," and by its publisher in 2015, Little, Brown/Hachette, as "founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine "and" author of several best-selling books. "He is described by Hans Baer as" Holistic Health/New Age Teacher "(with Deepak Chopra), and as a biomedically trained doctor who" appears as a [ talk that looks and is financially successful [n] "from holistic health/New Age Movement. Weil provides extensive biographical information about himself on DrWeil.com's information and commercial website; on her about.me page, linked from her commercial site, she describes herself as "Doctor, Best Sales Writer, Speaker & Thoughts of Integrative Drug Thinkers" and "an integrative leader in medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care including body, mind, and spirit. "
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Early life and education
Initial years
Andrew Thomas Weil was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1942, the only child of a parent who operated a factory equipment store, in a very Jewish family. He graduated from high school in 1959 and was awarded a scholarship from the American Association for the United Nations, giving him the opportunity to go abroad for a year, living with families in India, Thailand and Greece. From this experience he became convinced that in many respects American culture and science were petty and unaware of non-American practices. He began to hear that mescaline enhances creativity and produces visionary experience, and finds little information about the subject; he discovers The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
Undergraduate period
Weil entered Harvard University in 1960, majoring in biology with concentration in ethnobotany. He had an early curiosity about psychoactive drugs, and in that period, met Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, and separately engaged in organized experiments with mescaline (along with fellow Ronnie Winston scholar). Weil will write for and eventually serve as an editor of Harvard Crimson. One of the accounts published in that period depicts the fall of Weil from a group that belongs to the faculty - among which experiments with drugs are controversial, and with regard to scholars, are prohibited; the fall involved an exposÃÆ'Â © on drug use and the supply that Weil writes for Crimson. Weil wrote a faculty experiment with drugs in a series of Crimson cuts :
- "Better Than a Damn," (February 20, 1962), the first piece of Crimson ;
- "Alpert Defends Drug on 'Open End,'" (May 27, 1963); and
- "Impossible Investigation in Alpert Dismissal," (May 29, 1963).
and that this report includes claims that "students can indeed gain access to psilocybin from members" of the Harvard faculty research team involved in the study. By the end of 1973, Weil's name appeared in conjunction with an editorial on the 1963 shooting of Alpert, which expressed the view that "it is unfortunate that the shooting of Richard Alpert leads to the suppression of legitimate research into the effects of hallucinogenic compounds," alienated and Crimson > of their shoddiness "work as a scientist... less [result] than incompetence than conscious rejection of the scientific way of seeing things."
Weil's undergraduate thesis entitled "The Use of Nutmeg as a Psychotropic Agent," in particular, on the nature of narcotic narcotics, was inspired by classes with David McClelland, chair of the Department of Social Relations, and former director of the Harvard Center for Research in Personality; he graduated with B.A. in ethnobotany, cum laude, in 1964.
Medical training
Weil entered Harvard Medical School, "not with the intention of becoming a doctor but only for medical education." He received his medical degree in 1968, though "the Harvard faculty... threatened to arrest him because of the controversial marijuana study that Weil had helped to do" in his final year. Weil moved to San Francisco and completed a one-year medical internship at Mount Zion Hospital in 1968-1969. While there, volunteering at Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic. Weil went on to complete a year of a two-year program at NIH, resigning because of "official opposition to his work with cannabis."
Careers
After his residency, Weil took a position with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) which lasted about a year, to pursue his interest in research on marijuana and other medicines; during this time he may have received an official institutional permission to obtain cannabis for research.
Weil was reported to have suffered a contradiction to this line of investigation at NIMH, having left for his home in rural northern Virginia (1971-1972), and has started vegetarianism, yoga, and meditation practice, and worked to write The Natural Mind > (1972). At the same time, Weil embarked on an affiliation with the Harvard Botanical Museum which will run from 1971 to 1984, where his work included the task of being a research fellow who investigated the "medicinal and psychoactive properties of plants." His interest led him to explore indigenous healing systems, and with this aim, Weil traveled throughout South America and other parts of the world, "gathering information on medicinal herbs and healing," from 1971 to 1975, as fellow for the Institute of Current World Affairs.
In 1994, Weil founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, where he served as its director.
Display of conventional medicine
Evidence-based medicine is a central component that is expressed from a high-level "system system". Weil imagine integrative medicine to be. It is clear that both in scientific/academic settings and popular, Weil's statement suggests the practice of alternative therapies as something added to the conventional medical treatment plan. However, Weil also on record speaks disparaging conventional, evidence-based medicine, both in academic and popular contexts. For example, he was quoted as saying to a group that started after a month-long training program in integrative medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine that "evidence-based medicine, at its worst," is analogous to religious fundamentalism '"(though the source is unclear specific aspects of evidence-based medicine provided).
Influence and philosophy
Weil recognizes the many experiences and individuals who have influenced his philosophical and spiritual ideas, and the techniques he deems valid in his approach to medicine. Weil has been open about the history of experimental and recreational drug use, including experiences with narcotics and substances that change the mind. Among the individuals who profoundly affected his personal and professional life were the late osteopaths Robert C. Fulford, who specialized in skull manipulation. Weil further states that he respects the work of psychologist Martin Seligman, who pioneered the field of positive psychology and is now directing the Center for Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Weil also admits admiring the work of Stephen Ilardi, professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, and author of The Depression Cure.
Weil is widely recognized to have an important role in building integrative medicine, where this field is defined as:
"A high-level system of care systems that emphasizes the health and healing of the whole person (the bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimension) as the primary goal, using conventional and CAM approaches [complementary and alternative medicine] in the context of a supportive and effective doctor-patient relationship.
He says that patients are urged to take Western medicine prescribed by their doctors, and - in what Publishers Weekly describes as a message "to be a signature formula" - "bend the biomedical model" [conventional, evidence-based medicine ] to combine alternative therapies, including supplements such as omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, and herbal remedies, [and] other 'spiritual' meditations and strategies. "Proper nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction are also emphasized by Weil. In particular, he is a supporter of diets rich in organic fruits, organic vegetables, and fish, and is a food and diet critic who is rich in partially hydrogenated oils. In an interview with Larry King Live, Weil focuses on the view that sugar, starch, refined carbohydrates, and trans fats are more harmful to the human body than saturated fats.
Regarding the treatment strategy, its side effects, and its efficacy, Weil recommends the use of whole plants as a less problematic approach than synthetic drugs. In addition, Weil is an advocate incorporating special medicinal mushrooms into one's daily diet.
Weil has expressed opposition to the war on drugs, citing the benefits of many banned plants.
Books and publications
Overview
While Weil's early books and publications primarily explore the changing state of consciousness, he has expanded his scope of work to include healthy lifestyles and general health care. In the last ten years, Weil has focused most of his work on the health problems of the elderly. In his book Healthy Aging, Weil sees the process of growing older from a physical, social, and cross-cultural perspective, and in his book Why Our Health Problems is focused on health care reform.
Of his books, some have appeared on best-seller lists, both as hardbacks and as novels (many of which appeared in the 1990s), some of which are Spontaneous Healing (1995; ), List of popular works
In addition to earlier versions of paperback, hardback, audio, and electronic, various composite editions and compendiums have emerged.
Academic work
In 2015, Weil served as the series editor of the academic footsteps of Oxford University Press called the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, a volume for doctors in over 10 medical specialties, including oncology, cardiology, rheumatology, pediatrics, and psychology. Weil edited the first volume, Integrative Oncology, with Donald Abrams, which appeared in 2009. The academic and scientific reviews of individual series and volumes are lacking by 2015 - in almost all cases, the "Reviews and Awards" tab of the publisher has no public or other published publications (other than Doody). The second edition of the Cancer Society publication of the series' Integrative Oncology volume, the first volume that has been published, describes this field as "an exciting new discipline" and a book that offers "best practices" methods to prevent cancer and support them which are affected at all levels: body, mind, and spirit "and as comprehensive, and offer" a careful and well-written chapter on proven and unproven methods to improve cancer treatment with integrative oncology. "
Other works
Weil is a regular contributor to the High Times magazine from 1975 to 1983.
More recently, Weil has written the introduction to various books, for example, by:
- Paul Stamets
identification guide of this medicinal mushroom expert; - Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Medicine, on his own medical training experience in the early 1970s, a Native American;
- Tolly Burkan, and
- Wade Davis,
among others. In the new millennium, Weil sometimes writes articles for Time magazine.
Affiliated commercial operations
In addition to printing the appropriate information and electronics and audio products offered by Andrew Weil through the publisher, Weil is affiliated with DrWeill.com and drweilproducts.com and offers these and various other products through this and other various e-business related businesses and commercial ventures; in this case, the name "Dr. Andrew Weil" can be understood to represent both individuals and brands. Services even if this business includes vitamin recommendations, and subscription websites related to Optimal Health, Healthy Aging, and Spontaneous Happiness publications (that is, some popular titles are related to sales). Products including:
According to DrWeil.com, "Dr. Weil donated all of his after-tax profits from the sale of Weil Lifestyle's natural health products to Weil Foundation." Weil Foundation, independent 501 (c) (3), is dedicated to maintaining an integrative drug vision by improving the training of health care professionals, the public on health, healing, and nutrition, reforming public policies governing health care, and examining the application of integrative medicine. "
Criticism and controversy
Medical
Medical professionals in particular have criticized Weil for promoting treatment claims and alternative medical practices described as unverified or ineffective, or for refusing evidence-based medicine aspects. Weil's rejection of some aspects of evidence-based medicine and the promotion of his unproven alternative treatment practices was criticized in a 1998 article by Arnold S. Relman, emeritus editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine and professor of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School. The late Barry Beyerstein of Simon Fraser University, writing in the journal Academic Medicine in 2001, criticizes Weil and the various aspects of complementary and alternative medicine, asserting that it holds a "magical world view"; he continued, saying,
On the advocacy of emotional criteria for truth on criteria based on empirical data and logic, New Age medical experts such as Andrew Weil... have assured much that 'anything goes'... By degrading science, these critics have magnified the potential of following magic and health products pseudoscientific.
In 2003, Steven Knope, author of The Body/Mind Connection (2000), a doctor trained at Weill Cornell Medical College, and former Chair of the Department of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, the Carondelet system, criticized Weil in a televised discussion for what he considers to be an irresponsible advocate for untested care. Simon Singh, a recognized British science writer, and Edzard Ernst, former Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, echoed Beyerstein's critique in their 2008 book Trick or Treatment, saying that while Weil correctly promotes exercise. and a smoke-free lifestyle, "most of his advice is nonsense."
Social
Hans Baer of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, writing in 2003, argues that Weil's approach represents a general limitation of the Holistic Newness/health movement, in its "tendency" to shrink social roles. , structural, and environmental factors in the etiology of disease "in the United States, and in doing so, it is a failure to" suggest substantive solutions to improve access to health care, "generally, to" millions of people who have no type. go health insurance... "; at the same time, Baer noted (with a negative connotation) that Weil instead contributed" to the long tradition of entrepreneurialism in the US medical system. "
Ethical
Starting in 2006, as a result of his commercial endeavors, Weil - as David Gumpert explained - put himself in an "awkward position... must defend himself against allegations of exploiting his medical-celebrity status." Commenting on the cover article in the latest issue of 2006 from the Center for Science for the Public Interest "highly respected" Nutrition Action Healthletter, Gumpert calls attention:
- Weil business deals worth $ 14 million with drugstore.com,
- Personalized services DrWeil.com recommends supplements (purchases made easy through DrWeil.com and drugstore.com),
- old recommendations for supplements that appear even though studies question its efficacy, and for
- the obvious nature of the pressure on Weil because of the deal, and the clear attachment between people and brands.
The Forbes article notes, in particular, drugstore.com's 2005 lawsuit against DrWeil.com for Weil who has "failed to perform its marketing obligations," noting that in 2004 Larry King Live interviews , Weil failed to promote this business partner, although the program offered "a reasonable opportunity for Weil to use the effort to promote drugstore.com." In addition, the CSPI newsletter notes that their investigation into vitamin recommendation and supplement services led them to conclude that the algorithm behind the recommendation was, by default, set to recommend purchases: regardless of how online questions from personal service were answered, "we can not ask advisors to stop recommending that we buy supplements. "The CSPI article concludes," Beware of doctors who sell what they recommend. "
In 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest also commented on a piece of Time magazine by Weil who refuted JAMA's latest report on the failure of fish oil supplements to significantly reduce the risk of serious cardiac arrhythmia, where he emphasized the benefits of supplements fish oil without a disclaimer that it has a direct commercial interest in the sale of this supplement.
Other specific criticisms have been raised regarding his Healthy Aging message (2005), which argues that aging should be accepted as a natural stage in life, while this skin care product is sold on Macy's with an advertisement product claims of "optimistic [ ing] skin defense against aging "- along with Weil's big picture.
Weil has also been accused by others in the alternative health movement, in particular, of individuals with unbelievable backgrounds, engaged in "dishonest practices spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about competitors' products, while pretending to be ] [party] 3 objective. "
Politics
Weil's 1983 Chocolate to Morphine evoked the anger of Florida Senator Paula Hawkins, "who demanded that the book, the true encyclopaedia of drugs and its effects on humans, be expelled from schools and libraries."
Formal repair actions
In 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Weil's Weil Lifestyle LLC, on "Unapproved/Unknown/Unauthorized Products Associated with H1N1 Flu Virus" in particular, "Notice of Illegal Marketing Potential Products to Prevent, Treat or Curing the H1N1 Virus The H1N1 [influenza] virus. "The FDA is primarily concerned with some of the implicit claims in the marketing literature of Weil Lifestyle LLC, that certain products can help ward off the virus.
Awards and acknowledgments
Weil appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1997 and again in 2005, and Time named it one of 25 most influential Americans in 1997 and one of 100 people most influential in the world in 2005. He was inducted into an Academy of Achievement in 1998. The "Ask his Dr. Weil" web site was selected by Forbes' Best Web Directory in 2009 for offering "direct tips and advice to achieve health through natural means and educate people about alternative therapies. "
Media appearance
Weil blog for Huffington Post and has often been a guest on "Larry King Live" on CNN, Oprah, and "Today" Show.
Weil appeared in a very critical documentary about the need to "rescue" American health, Escape Fire (2012).
References
Further reading
- The EB editors (2015). "Andrew Weil, American Physician," In EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica (online, November 18), see [10], accessed November 18, 2015.
- Anon (2012). "Drugs and its competitors: Believers". The Economist (online and print, April 14) . Retrieved November 17 2015 .
Subtitle: Alternative therapies are increasingly common. That means a headache for scientists - and no drugs are seen.
Garner, Dwight (2010). The Times Books: Tune In, Turn On, Turn Page [Review, "Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Kill Fifties and Deliver New Age for America," by Don Lattin] ". The New Your Times (online, January 7) . Retrieved November 17 2015 .
External links
- The official website of Andrew Weil.
- Arizona Integrative Treatment Center, University of Arizona (formerly Program in Integrative Medicine).
- Interview Andrew Weil, Academy of Achievement, May 22, 1998.
- Weil, Andrew (2015). "Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid". Drweil.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009 . Retrieved November 17 2015 . Ã,
- Ochel, Evita (2008). "Food & Drink Reviews: Weil By Nature's Path Organic Chocolada Walnut Pure Fruit And Nut Bar". Grow Wellness (online, August 21) . Archived from the original on March 3, 2009 . Retrieved November 17 2015 .
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