From Green Tea To Psilocybin: The Routines, Diet, Lifestyle, Supplements & Sage Advice From One Of The Top Natural Medicine Docs On The Face Of The Planet - The Dr. Andrew Weil Podcast.

Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he also serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health as well as the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology.

He is a best-selling author of 15 books on healthy living, including:

-Mind Over Meds -Fast Food, Good Food -True Food -Spontaneous Happiness -Healthy Aging -8 Weeks to Optimum Health

Oxford University Press is currently producing the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, a series of volumes for clinicians in various medical specialties.

-Integrative Oncology (co-edited with Dr. Donald Abrams, 2d. ed. 2014). -Integrative Psychiatry -Integrative Pediatrics -Integrative Women’s Health (2d. ed. 2015) -Integrative Rheumatology -Integrative Cardiology -Integrative Gastroenterology -Integrative Nursing -Integrative Men’s Health-Integrative Dermatology -Integrative Pain Management -Integrative Environmental Medicine-Integrative Preventive Medicine -Integrative Psychiatry and Brain Health

More volumes are in progress.

Dr. Weil also serves as the editorial director of drweil.com, the leading online resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine, and pens the popular Dr. Andrew Weil’s Self Healing monthly newsletter and a regular column in Prevention magazine.

Dr. Weil is the founder and Chairman of the Weil Foundation, and the founder and co-Chairman of Healthy Lifestyle Brands. He is also a founder and partner of the growing group of True Food Kitchen restaurants. In 2017, he joined Seabourn and The Onboard Spa by Steiner in their “Spa and Wellness with Dr. Andrew Weil” mindful-living program, offered on all of its cruise ships.

During our discussion, you'll hear: -Dr. Weil's morning routine...6:30

• Wake up between 4-4:30
• Sitting meditation
  • Breathing exercises (4-7-8 breathing)
  • Sit for 15 minutes
• Breakfast: Sauteed tempeh (Dr. Weil is a pescatarian)
• Matcha green tea
• Tend to the garden

-Ben and Dr. Weil discussing the health of our dogs...9:40

• Dr. Weil owns two Rhodesian ridgebacks
• Ben's Rhodesian ridgeback recently passed away
• What's causing cancer in dogs? Environment, food, etc.
• Rapamycin has been correlated with longevity for dogs
  • Dr. Weil gives it to his dogs every day for 10 weeks

-The breath work Dr. Weil prefers and why...13:12

• Comes from ancient India; passed on as oral tradition
• By using voluntary system to breathe, it influences the involuntary system of breathing
• 4-7-8 breathing
  • Inhale 4 counts, hold 7 counts, exhale 8 counts
  • Do minimum twice daily
  • You're changing your brain's chemistry; exe