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, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States, and through its fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.

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.

Dr. Weil’s Education

• A.B., biology (botany), Harvard University, 1964
• M.D., Harvard University Medical School, 1968

After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked a year with the National Institute of Mental Health, then wrote his first book, The Natural Mind.  From 1971-75, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled widely in North and South America and Africa collecting information on drug use in other cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative methods of treating disease.  From 1971-84 he was on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.

Accomplishments

• Founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
• Editorial director of the popular website, DrWeil.com
• Contributor and visiting faculty member, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
• Founder and chairman of The Weil Foundation
• Founder and co-owner of the growing group of True Food Kitchen restaurants

Dr. Weil writes a monthly column for Prevention magazine. A frequent lecturer and guest on talk shows, Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert on medicinal plants, alternative medicine, and the reform of medical education. In partnership with Seabourn and The Onboard Spa by Steiner, his “Spa and Wellness with Dr. Andrew Weil” mindful-living program is offered on all of the Seabourn cruise ships. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Oxford University Press is currently producing the “Weil Integrative Medicine Library,” a series of volumes for clinicians in various medical specialties; the first of these, Integrative Oncology appeared in 2009. Since then, Integrative Psychiatry, Integrative Pediatrics, Integrative Women’s Health, Integrative Rheumatology, Integrative Cardiology, and Integrative Gastroenterology, and many others have been published.

Dr. Weil’s Publications

He is the author of many scientific and popular articles and many books, including these national and international best-sellers:

Selected Books:

• The Natural Mind; The Marriage of the Sun and Moon; From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen)
• Health and Healing; Natural Health, Natural Medicine
• Spontaneous Healing
• 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
• Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition
• The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit (with Rosie Daley)
• Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
• Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (issued in paperback with new content as: You Can’t Afford to Get Sick).
• Spontaneous Happiness(2011)
• True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure(2012)
• Fast Food, Good Food(2015)
• Mind Over Meds (2017)
• 17 volumes in the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, from the Oxford University Press

Magazines & Periodicals:

• Monthly column in Prevention magazine
• Monthly Self Healing mailed newsletter
• Annual volume of the Self Healing newsletters, all published in a single-issue publication, by year.
• Periodic single-issue and topic-specific publications, including the recent, Andrew Weil’s Garden to Table Cooking

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Learn More About Andrew Weil, M.D.

• Weil Foundation
  Andrew Weil, M.D., donates all of his after-tax profits from royalties from sales of Weil Lifestyle products directly to the Weil Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting integrative medicine through training, education, and research. Since its inception in 2005, the Weil Foundation has given out more than $6.1 million in grants and gifts to medical centers and other non-profit organizations nationwide. weilfoundation.org
• What Is Integrative Medicine?
  Integrative medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle.
• About Weil Lifestyle
  Weil Lifestyle is an organization founded with the mandate of providing an ethical funding platform to support the Weil Foundation.
• Weil’s Podcast Appearances
  Listen to Dr. Weil talk about the long and interesting road his life has taken, and his strongly influential role in establishing the field of integrative medicine.
• Dr. Weil’s Ongoing Commitment To Integrative Medicine
  Dr. Weil donates an additional $15 million (adding to the previous $5 million) to the University of Arizona for the expansion of the Center for Integrative Medicine.

Updated 8/01/2019

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All About Mushrooms

From Dr. Weil’s licensing partner, Origins: Dr. Andrew Weil For Origins, Mega Mushroom

I visited Paul Stamets’ reishi growing facility several years ago.

A healthy
double reishi!

A chaga mushroom found on birch trees near Kripalu.

“The Mushroom of Beauty” Tremella Mushrooms support the skin’s own ability to hold onto moisture.

Here I am surrounded by an amazing display of reishi

Cordyceps provide balanced energy.

Additional Ingredients Found In Dr. Andrew Weil For Origins Products

Ginger root used medicinally in herbal traditions for centuries. Holy Basil is used in Ayurvedic medicine as an “adaptogen” to counter life’s stresses. Sea Buckthorn: beautiful orange berries grow on thorn-bearing trees. In skin Lactobacillus/Probiotics encourages the expression of beta defensins – proteins which increase skins resiliency. A balancing herb, Turmeric root is widely used to flavor food across Asia. A second “adaptogen” Licorice Root, activates the skin natural defenses to help skin adapt and adjust to environmental stressors.

Ginger

Holy Basil

Sea Buckthorn

Lactobacillus / Probiotics

Turmeric

Licorice

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Stephen Devries M.D., a preventive cardiologist and executive director of the Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology, located near Chicago.

Victoria Maizes, M.D. who is the executive director here at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and a Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

Belleruth Naparstek, a psychotherapist, author and guided imagery pioneer.

Sanford Newmark, M.D., a clinical professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of California, and the head of the Pediatric Integrative Neurodevelopmental Program at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

Jim Nicolai, M.D., is the former medical director of the Integrative Wellness Program at Miraval Resort and Spa.

I hope you enjoy some of my travel snapshots!

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Integrative medicine is a blend of conventional Western medicine and complementary therapies for which there is good scientific evidence of effectiveness.  At a press conference after the vote, Dr. Weil predicted the study will find that the IM clinic provides both better health outcomes and “significantly” lower costs. “One reason for the high cost of health care is the tremendous overuse of medications. I think just in that alone, we will be able to show great cost reductions because we simply don’t prescribe medications frequently. We have many nondrug options to manage common conditions.

“In the 1950s,” he added, “Americans took prescribed medications at about 10 percent of the rate that they do now,” yet health outcomes have not significantly improved, and by some measures, they have gotten worse. “Our hope is that the information that we generate from the study will inform the whole discussion of health care in the United States, which is in desperate need of transformation. I see this as a way to change the health care debate, and get us out of the deepening crisis that we’re in.”

Victoria Maizes, M.D., AzCIM’s executive director, was also optimistic about what the study would find, pointing out that early type 2 diabetes and hypertension are primarily “lifestyle diseases, and if you have a clinic that focuses well enough, and supports people well enough in their lifestyle changes, you are going to be able to reverse these conditions.”

The Adolph Coors Foundation will fund the three-year study, which will look at anonymous data regarding outcomes and treatment costs for patients with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and low back pain. The 12-physician clinic will be able to treat approximately 1,800 patients, but if more county employees than that should choose the option, another facility could be opened, Dr. Weil said.

The experiment is well worth pursuing, said Administrator David R. Smith, who pointed out that Maricopa’s current health care costs are significant. “We spend upwards of $100 million for our 13,000 employees – we have 25,000 covered lives when you include dependents – so if there is an opportunity for 1,800 of our adult employees and their dependents to get even better outcomes, possibly, at lower cost, then as an employer, we are very interested in those kinds of results.”

The agreement extends until June of 2015, but can be renewed. During the study, clinic leadership will work closely with Maricopa County and with CIGNA, the county’s claims administrator and network provider.

More images from the meeting: AzCIM and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

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Learn more about exercise in my life.

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It’s my understanding that you have some genetic susceptibility when it comes to heart disease, is that right?
Yes, my father had a mild first heart attack in the fall of 1961, when he was 49 years old. Later on, he had two coronary bypass operations, and was able to live until he was 81. My father was a smoker and his diet was not at all good by my standards, but I think there was a genetic propensity, because my grandfather on that side had died of a heart attack at age 50. Also, his wife – my grandmother – had coronary artery disease and angina.

So you have had this knowledge all your life.
I have. And personally, early in life, I had a benign arrhythmia – technically, it’s called paroxysmal superventricular tachycardia. It’s brief episodes of rapid heartbeat. There are natural ways to mitigate that condition and I almost never get those anymore, but it made me somewhat anxious about my heart health. Also, I had a tendency toward high blood pressure. One of my motivations for becoming a vegetarian, exercising daily and adopting a healthy lifestyle was I knew my family history and I saw the potential for problems. As you know, I eat fish now, but other than that am still basically vegetarian.

Do you believe that coronary artery disease is mainly an inflammatory condition?
I think it is a mulitfactorial condition, but yes, the root cause is chronic inflammation, which is one reason I so strongly emphasis the anti-inflammatory diet. The other risk factors, such as high blood fats and high cholesterol, follow from that.

On this Web site, there is specific advice for helping to prevent or lessen coronary artery disease, so rather than repeat that, let’s talk about some laboratory tests that can serve to provide early warning for coronary concerns.

What about homocysteine?
Homocysteine is an amino acid in the blood, it’s a byproduct of protein metabolism. High levels are an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease. It’s easy to get the levels down through supplementing with folic acid and vitamin B6. I think it’s worth getting tested for.

And how about C-reactive protein?
This is an indicator of inflammation. Blood level of C-reactive protein is not as specific an indicator as we would like it to be for coronary artery disease, but I think it makes sense to get tested for it, particularly if you are at high risk. It can be brought under control with an anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle, and also with low-dose aspirin and statin drugs.

You swim daily and practice stress reduction. Aside from that, what’s your personal supplement and medication regimen for heart health?
I have genetically low HDL cholesterol. There are really no reliable pharmaceutical methods for raising that. Given that, my physician and I thought it would be better to bring my LDL lower. I used Cholestin [a proprietary supplement] when it was still made from red rice yeast, and had excellent results, but it was ordered off the market after pressure was put on the FDA, so I have been on the lowest dose of Lipitor, 10 milligrams, for two or three years. I have had no ill effects from it. I also take coenzyme Q10 as general protection against oxidative stress and to offset the side effects of the statin, and I take two low-dose aspirins per day. I also take two grams of fish oil per day, and I eat fish two or three times per week.

And I assume you get regular checkups?
I do, including a cardiogram and a lipid profile. I’m happy to say, it all looks very good.

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“The canned kind is just awful,” he says, shaking his head. “Real sauerkraut is an entirely different food. A living food. We used to get it from barrels at the German delis in Philadelphia.”

But such delis are few and far between in southeastern Arizona, so on the butcher-block island in Dr. Weil’s kitchen stand two traditional sauerkraut-making pots. One is 18 inches tall, the other 14 inches, and each is colored with deep brown ceramic glaze. (Such pots are widely available online – a search on “sauerkraut crock pots” should bring up many different varieties to choose from.)

Sauerkraut at Home:
Making sauerkraut at home, with or without special equipment, is “really quite simple,” says Dr. Weil. “First, I get fresh cabbage from the garden, shred it and mix it in a bowl with salt,” at a ratio of roughly 3 tablespoons of salt for every five pounds of cabbage. “I load it into the crocks and really pack it down with my fist.” He then puts a pair of half-circle-shaped ceramic weights (which are sold with the crock; a water-filled bottle set atop a plate will also work) on top of the cabbage and puts on the lid.

A unique feature of a sauerkraut crock is that the lid’s edge sits in a circular trough that can be filled with water. This forms a one-way seal: carbon dioxide given off by fermentation can bubble out, but air cannot get back in. Sauerkraut can be made in a glass or ceramic vessel without such a seal, but tends to form a mold on the brine’s surface that requires regular skimming or the batch will spoil.

The salt draws water from the cabbage. Because Dr. Weil uses only garden-fresh cabbage, a brine usually forms in a few hours. But if, after 24 hours, enough brine has not formed to cover the cabbage, which can happen with older, drier vegetables, “you can just add salted water,” at a concentration of roughly one teaspoon of salt per cup.

Dr. Weil lets the batch sit at room temperature for three days, which is why the crocks were in the center of his kitchen. “It starts this weird bubbling. Then I move it back to a cooler location for about six weeks. That’s all there is to it.” Sauerkraut can be sampled just a week or so after fermentation starts, but the flavor improves over time. Once it tastes just right, the finished product can go into the refrigerator, packed in its own juice, for several weeks more.

Fortunately, I did not have to take the good doctor’s word for how wonderful homemade sauerkraut can be. He keeps his crocks in productive rotation, and served up a bowl of the previous batch for each of us.

Revelation! Redemption! Black-Forest epiphany! Mein Gott in Himmel, that’s good sauerkraut! Where the canned version I recalled from my own German-American childhood tasted like an unholy mélange of salt, vinegar and mush, Dr. Weil’s sauerkraut was a Wagnerian symphony of crunchy textures and vibrant, piquant flavors. The transformation of bland cabbage and plain salt into sour nirvana is the work of lactic acid, produced when Lactobacillus bacteria, which is already present in the cabbage, digests sugars in the vegetable.

So is it healthy? “There is a range of salt concentrations you can use, and I tend toward the minimum,” says Dr. Weil. “So unless you need to restrict your salt intake for some specific reason, that’s not a concern.” But be aware – too little salt can lead to spoilage and food poisoning. Don’t go below three-tablespoon-per-five-pound limit, and never eat sauerkraut that is slimy, excessively soft, discolored or off-flavor.

On the positive side, “Fermenting does some of the digestive work for you, so it makes a lot of foods more digestible and the nutrients in them more bioavailable,” says Dr. Weil. Sauerkraut is an excellent source of vitamin C, which is why Captain James Cook reportedly took it on his sea voyages to prevent scurvy. Fermented foods are said to populate the digestive tract with healthful microorganisms, and some reports say parts of the world with a high percentage of centenarians tend to use fermented foods in abundance. In any case, fresh, living sauerkraut is low in calories and fat, high in fiber, cheap, fun to make and decidedly köstlich – delicious!

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A tour through Dr. Weil’s kitchen at his home in Tucson, Arizona, leads inevitably to the cabinet in which he keeps his vitamin supplements. It is surprisingly crowded. One might have expected that, after so many years of researching vitamins, minerals, herbs and mushroom preparations, Dr. Weil would not need so many bottles – he would have come up with his own “all-in-one” optimum vitamin supplement years ago.

And in a sense, he has. Dr. Weil takes a daily, core regimen consisting of a multivitamin and antioxidants. But aside from that, “I experiment,” he says, waving a hand at the collection of bottles. “It’s a constant process of trial and error. My body changes, and I read up on the medical literature, and then I adjust what I take. It’s not just for my own health, but also to give me some sense of what to recommend.”

Example: “I took a high quality caffeine-free green tea extract for a while,” Dr. Weil says, reasoning that it was a convenient way to get the benefits of green tea without the caffeine. But, “It was more pills to add to my routine, and the literature supported greater benefits by actually drinking green tea.”

So here’s what he takes now with his green tea at breakfast:

• A multivitamin/multimineral – one tablet
• CoEnzyme Q10 – one 60mg pill
• A mixed-mushroom supplement for immune support – one capsule
• Magnesium chelate – one 250mg pill
• Fish Oil – four 500mg capsules
• Acetyl-L-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid – one tablet

In the evening, with dinner, he takes:

• A multivitamin/multimineral – one tablet
• CoEnzyme Q10 – one 60mg pill
• Vitamin D – two 1,000mg pills
• Baby aspirin – two 80mg pills
• A mixed-mushroom supplement for immune support – one capsule
• Magnesium chelate – one 250mg pill
• Fish Oil – four 500mg capsules
• Acetyl-L-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid – one tablet

“And above all, I eat well, which is by far the best nutritional tactic for health,” he says.

Ultimately, Dr. Weil says, responsible self-experimentation is the best route for everyone, doctor and layperson alike. “All of us are different – our lifestyles, our sleep patterns, our diets, and our genetic makeups. What works for one person may not work for another, and what works best may change over time. As long as you take care to use vitamin supplement products that have inherently low toxicity and start at modest dosages, the ultimate arbiter of whether a supplement works must be your own experience.” Which is why, for many remedies, Dr. Weil’s advice is, quite simply: “Try it and see how you feel.”

Updated by: Andrew Weil, M.D., and Brian Becker, M.D., on March 4, 2014

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Integrative medicine physicians “can be a powerful counterweight” to the forces that are making Americans among the least healthy people in the developed world, Andrew Weil, M.D., told a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday, Feb. 26. Both medical care and food can be cheaper and better, he said, and the national economic crisis offers a rare opportunity to make that happen. The crucial first step is education changes at all levels, from kindergarten to medical school.

“Education is really the key” he said.

Dr. Weil, Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., was one of four prominent American physicians summoned to give their views at a hearing titled “Integrative Care: A Pathway to a Healthier Nation” before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Also on the panel were Mehmet Oz, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY;  Mark Hyman, M.D., Founder and Medical Director, The UltraWellness Center, Lenox, Mass.; and Dean Ornish, M.D., Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, Calif.

In oral and written statements, Dr. Weil emphasized that integrative medicine “must be a key part of American health care reform.”

Why? While Americans now spend far more than citizens of any other country in the developed world for health care, by virtually every measure of health outcomes – longevity, infant mortality, fitness, and rates of chronic disease – we are near or at the bottom compared to other developed countries. “We are paying more and more for health care, and have less and less to show for it,” Dr. Weil said.

The reason? We do not have a “health care” system aimed at preventing illness, but rather, as he put it, a “disease management system” that overemphasizes drugs and surgery after the patient becomes ill, because that is where profit potential is greatest. Simple, effective, low-cost lifestyle changes such as improved diet, low-impact exercise, stress reduction and other such measures have been proven as or more effective than drugs and surgery for both prevention and treatment for many patients. Yet these are routinely discounted by physicians, largely because modern medical-school education remains woefully deficient in teaching such subjects.

Dr. Weil said integrative medicine training for physicians, which emphasizes diet and lifestyle changes, is already gaining momentum, with 42 medical schools now offering programs. Federal mandates, he said, will serve only to speed a natural evolution toward the widespread adoption of integrative medicine that’s already underway. The University of Arizona, he said, was well positioned to lead medical school reform nationwide.

In the wide-ranging discussion, the physicians on the panel also lamented the sorry state of American nutrition. “There are now 70 million Americans with fatty liver, and that’s something I did not see in my training just 20 years ago,” noted Dr. Hyman. One reason: consumption of high-fructose corn syrup has jumped from “almost none” in 1980 to 66 pounds annually per American today.

“It’s so discouraging” that Americans are exporting unhealthy food choices to the rest of the world,” said Dr. Weil, noting that American-style fast food was quickly shortening life spans in Okinawa, a culture that until recently produced the longest-lived people in the world.

“We are globalizing chronic disease,” said Dr. Ornish.

Committee chair Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, pointed out that Americans, including children, will adopt healthy habits if they are simply given a chance. After a federal pilot program made free fruits and vegetables available in 100 grade schools in 2003, “I saw third grade kids eating fresh spinach, carrots and broccoli,” Harkin said. “Teachers told me, some of these kids have never had a fresh orange in their lives.”

Dr. Weil emphasized that nutritionally trained physicians should be part of U.S. farm-bill creation from now on (the farm bill is the Federal government’s major agricultural policy tool). “Not until last year was there an effort to have the health care community give input’  on the bill,” he said.

All four physicians on the panel emphatically offered their services to help re-craft federal policy along integrative medicine principles.

While this hearing was exploratory in nature, Senator Harkin made it clear that he would involve the panel physicians and their organizations in the coming months in specific health-care reform efforts, including drafting new legislation.

“I am just so grateful to you all. You are my heroes,” he said. “I keep thinking to myself, ‘My god, why don’t people get this?’ We need you badly, and want you to be involved.”

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March, 2019 – Dr. Weil has donated $15 million to the University of Arizona for the expansion of the Center for Integrative Medicine, which will be renamed in his honor as the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Weil’s gift, which supplements $5 million he donated earlier, also will establish an endowed chair in integrative medicine, another for research in integrative medicine, and an endowed program fund for integrative medicine. It will help build modern new quarters for the Center on campus.

Here are Dr. Weil’s thoughts about his legacy, his gift and his vision for the future of healthcare:

This gift marks the high point in my career. It’s been 25 years since the Center in Integrative Medicine was established at the University of Arizona with the aim of redesigning medical education. I believed then – and still do – that we can impact and improve our nation’s struggling health care system by training physicians to focus on the innate healing potential of humans. Integrative medicine combines the best practices of modern medicine with an emphasis on lifestyle factors that influence health including nutrition, physical activity, mind-body interventions, spirituality, and natural therapies.

As you might imagine, 25 years ago there was a lot of skepticism about this approach. Fortunately, times have changed, and the importance of good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle are accepted as mainstream by most practitioners and by the estimated eight million patients our program has directly and indirectly served. A growing body of scientific evidence supports the use of botanical remedies, mind/body therapies, acupuncture and other “alternative” treatments.

In the beginning, the program consisted of a two-year residential fellowship that trained four physicians a year. Not surprisingly, people couldn’t imagine how I was going to change medicine by training so few people, but that modest start gave us a chance to develop a solid curriculum. We graduated 35 fellows from that initial program, some of whom are now in influential positions at institutions throughout the country. They’re directing integrative medicine centers at other universities and have written textbooks on the subject. Today we train 160 physicians (and nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants) a year via a 1,000-hour online fellowship and have 1,800 graduates in all states and in 15 other countries. There is now a waiting list for the fellowship.

Also, a condensed curriculum of 200 hours has been adopted by 74 residency programs in the US and Canada (as well as in Taiwan and Germany). But there’s still a long way to go.  Our goal is to have our curriculum become a required, accredited part of residency training in all fields of medicine. That would mean that every psychiatrist, dermatologist, gastroenterologist, and other specialist would have a solid grounding in nutrition, lifestyle medicine, mind/body interactions, and all the other important subjects now omitted from conventional medical education.

Through all our 25 years, the Center for Integrative Medicine has been self-sustaining through tuition. We’ve received some federal funds and have been helped by private philanthropy, but have never had state money. Even so, we have become the world leader in integrative medicine education. For a long time, we’ve wanted a home and financial stability. Visitors come from all over the world eager to see our center, and all we have to show them is a small house some distance from the medical campus. We have other offices some distance away, but nothing centralized. That will change when we have our new building, probably in 2022.

Andrew Weil Center For Integrative Medicine (staff) | Photo Courtesy of the University Of Arizona

And in 2020, the Center for Integrative Medicine will open an integrative medicine primary care clinic in Tucson in partnership with Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the U.S. If we can demonstrate – as I believe we can – that integrative medicine produces better outcomes for common health conditions at lower cost, it could become a new model for health care throughout the country. I know that integrative medicine is the way of the future. And I look forward to the day when we’ll be able to drop the word “integrative.” What we practice will simply be good medicine.

I hope my gift inspires others who share my vision for more effective and less costly healthcare to step up and donate.

Andrew Weil, M.D.

For more information:

• Learn more about the Andrew Weil Center For Integrative Medicine
• Read the press release.
• Watch a video of the press event (23 minutes):

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