Right before covid I began eating healthy. I cut out all sweaters in drinks and all processed carbs. I have lost 12” on my waist and have put all my levels back into what is considered very healthy for a man my age. I have done very little exercise and I actually each 2400-3000 calories a day. I continue to loose weight and my doctor is proud of me for nothing. I have done nothing, this is easier than any “diet” ever was. I hate to think how much time I wasted, I’m just happy to be free.

I've been following Dr. Wiel's advice for 35 years. Just had a heart scan and at 60, no artery blocked more than 30%. Heart valves strong and no signs of cancer. Every marker of health good. I owe it all to his advise. Eat Real food and give up the rest.

I no longer own a microwave so I don't buy the foods I use to buy. We don't go out to eat I cook for my kids and we pray over our food.

Sensible. Moderate. Easy to listen to. This man is correct.

I am late to the party but I am so thankful that I found you and your message. I am overweight, I have cerebral palsy, and anxiety.. I am trying to impove my health and mobility. I just turned 44years old the mother of one. I need to and I want to be here for her. The pandemic has not been kind to me nor, did I think I had options.

Dr. Weil will be remembered in the annals of medicine as a doctor well ahead of his time.

I met Dr Weil & shook his hand before a forum in Chicago about 8 yrs ago after having read 3-4 of his books already by then & having made significant changes to my diet lifestyle. I trust him because he combines Western & Eastern diets & medicine to create the best of both worlds unanimously

The fountain of youth is organic whole food, exercise. and dental care.This is what one learns when they research and find the best health educators in the world. Dr. Weil on one of them.

American's need to listen to Dr. Weil...a Brilliant Man...a smart American :) I love learning from him xx

I agree with everything said here. The elephant in the room is big business, ubiquitous food and sodas in almost all airports, train stations and nearly all public buildings. Then there is the constant bombardment of advertising, sports sponsorship and shops strategic placement of all sorts of sugar products. You have to really know what you're shopping for and stick to it. Unfortunately the Government will never tackle the corporates and we're living in an era of such self indulgence It's difficult for people I say this as someone who has not struggled with weight but can see how it can creep up on people

Love this video, great points not only on sugar but the daily intake of certain fats, processed foods and more! Thank you Dr. Weil!

Absolute agreement. I shared on FB because I'd like all my friends to watch and think about the information presented. Thank you Dr Weil!

Dr. Weil Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I read a lot about nutrition and I used to follow some of your advice many years ago, but have not picked up any of your recent books. I have to say this is by far the best presentation I've seen, packed full of important information and with so many truths. Thank you.

I'm sitting here watching eating my breakfast which is shrimp, olive oil, bok choy, and mushrooms. Having some ginger water as well. No sugar needed. I usually only eat berries and cycle in and out of keto as it has been a game changer for my migraines.

People in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s were also much more active in daily life. Walking and physical work was the way of life.

I used to put 2 then 3 tbsp. of sugar in my coffee when I was in college. I had complexion problems and was advised to take zinc supplement. I noticed that after a while by taking the zinc my need for sugar decreased!

Been listening to Dr Weil since we were both younger men...He supported health programs in SF, especially health clinic in The Haight.......Thank you Dr Weil.

I did this and lost 60 lbs pretty easily when nothing else worked. Gotta get back to that.

👃I whole heartedly agree with the need in our society to reduce the amount of sugars in our diet. Too much we let sugars control how we feel or what food we are going to eat. I have made it my goal to not be controlled by processed sugars and to be in control of my habits. It takes an effort to retrain your brain so sugars do not control the brain!

Omg I'm so glad I found you, I read your books and I'm live in your home town. You have always given me great advice. Thank you doctor... everything you wrote is true..

I had a friend who stopped drinking sugary drinks and he lost 30 to 40 pounds.

I love this great doctor, he is dignified with such great information and has given the world such important information.

Brilliant talk. So very true! Need to remember this every day. Thank you for bringing this to us

Enjoyed the video...just back from a trip to Italy...how much tastier their fruits and veggies are! ...we think lack of micro-nutrients is the reason why our foods are so bland!

I developed celiac disease and soy intolerance. If we didn't have such disgusting processed food I don't think anybody would develop such severe reactions to foods. So sad. Always eat healthy whole natural foods.

Thank you for the information in such great detail! 🙂

Love this man! Thank you Dr. Weil!

I totally agree with excess sugar being a major problem. An old cookbook I owned had outrageous sugar measurements in the baking recipes. Or how about adding sugar to your vegetables while cooking? Try going into a supermarket and finding wholesome foods to take home to your family. The food processing industry is giving us few choices for healthy food, using sugar, among other things like a drug dealer to get us hooked. That’s where the solution to the sugar problem has to start; forcing food giants to stop plying their products with sugar and other chemicals that are causing our health to go haywire.

I followed this mans diet advice years ago…so glad to have found this site.

Thank you so much for this! :)

The original functional medicine doc. He has been right for soooooo long!!

Hello from Philadelphia - very sensible advice - Thank you

Such good advice ..... I will follow.

Exactly!!! Listen to this Doctor! He’s right on!

I've found use moderation from all the food groups works well. Get rid of sugar, junk food, soda. I eat meats, eggs, fish, nuts, berries, salads, tomatoes etc. Lost almost 50 pounds with a little walking exercise. If I have a bad day, just start again the next day. Much of losing weight is mental. I ate at Thanksgiving and will at Christmas too. Look at the long haul and lose the weight slowly.

What an eye opener video. I'm so greatful for this video . Thank you so much Dr.

Read Dr. Weil's first book, "The Natural Mind" almost 50 years ago, an insightful reveal about the reasons why humans use conscience altering drugs and human health,.... been a fan of his observations and advice ever since. "Ye reap as ye sow",... which means that we are the products of what we eat,... and what we Think, as well! Pleasant thoughts and TY, Dr. Weil.

I really need this now. Thank you Dr. .

I just read your book spontaneous healing again. Iv had forever and thought I should read it. So informative 😊

Thank so much Dr Weil and thank you Dr Rangan!❤️

Excellent talk Dr. Weil!

There is no mistake in our wiring -creation. Fructose tastes sweet to us cause we need to eat fruits which are high in fructose and antioxidants and are a great source of energy!

I agree. I have watched over the years as so called experts talked about food, which is good and which is bad for health. First it was butter, bad, then margarine good, now butter is good again. I watched my friends eating egg whites and throwing the yolks away. I have seen the processed frozen food isles get bigger and bigger at the supermarket. And soda. Oh yeah the soda. Some tried to blame the high fructose corn syrup in soda not realizing that sugar is sugar. I see the Mexican people getting fatter and fatter as their standard of living rises, mostly due to soda. I don't believe anything they tell me anymore about food. I buy fresh vegetables whenever possible, this is 80% of my diet. 10% fruit and 10%meat. With this diet I can eat anything I want and never get fat. I make most of my meals at home, at least I know what goes into it. No donuts, pies, cookies, cake or candy. Some cocoa. One thing the doctor didn't mention, and looking at his body I think he should take it to heart, is the importance of exercise. Just looking at the supermarket parking lot where all the carts are left in the parking stalls tells you how lazy the average north American is. Get out there and generate some sweat. It is good for you.

Thank you Dr Weil

I've tried all types of different diets, but when I made an effort to cut out sugars and starches and focus on eating meats and veggies, skipping breakfast and doing 16:8 fasting every day I dropped 30lbs without exercising at all.

Great stuff Dr. Weil!!

You are awesome Dr Weil! Thank you!

Very interesting critique of food consumption in these United States of America. Thank you so much for sharing this so important information. And than you for your honesty about Medical Doctors playing a significant role in promoting unhealthy eating habits. I would also argue that the promotion of foods eaten in the U.S.A. is directly

When do doctors give health advice instead of dishing out prescriptions? Very rarely right?

Here in Brazil "real food" is extremelly expensive compared to junk food! Unfortunately, the ongoing "wheel" is against health here in our country! Nice words, doctor..but our people on average the pretty poor ones, cannot afford real food!

Well done and great talk, thank you!

So many good reminders!!

This is one of the most concise and convincing videos on the subject. I remember reading a book of his decades ago when I first started getting interested in health and nutrition. Everything he presents here equate to very manageable changes with profound results.

Thank you Dr. Weil for all of your work and for bringing this knowledge to light. So thankful to receive this information today.

very informative. thank you.

Great video.. Thank you!

Dr. Weil has been consistent for years, love him!!!!

Thank you so much...

excellent information!

I'm a Big fan of Andy. Very sensible in his approach to Natural Medicine. Good Healthy Organic Food as Medicine is his best advice.

Very interesting man. I have his meditation on pain and it works. Many things have changed. There are fewer happy people in America, they eat to comfort themselves. The fruits are not ripe in the stores, some seem like they have been frozen and then put out, the skins are winkley feeling and they taste bland.

Thank you Dr Weil !!

This doctor has been always ahead of the herd. He advocated getting much more Vit D decades ago.

Great video thank you...

Great info! Thank you!

He’s way ahead of his time. I think that people will miss many of his most important points.

Thank you for this God bless you 🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸

Love Andrew Well! Been following him since his book 8 Weeks To Optium Health. ❤

My husband and I decided the last week of 2022 we’d eat every god aweful, high calorie, comfort and junk food we want and start eating healthy on the first of the year. That entire week I could barely get off the couch, I was a bit depressed, and just walking to the kitchen exhausted me. I’m 4 days in to cutting processed foods and I have so much goddamn energy I’m shaking.

Just THANK YOU! :)

Brilliant. I’m also watching all of Dr Robert Lustig videos.. explains the horror of our “food” system snd the degradation of the meat, poultry, fish and egg situation where the animals are fed garbage -giving them metabolic syndrome-and we eat that! Obscene. After a video of Dr Lustig, I gave up all processed food..eat nothing with added sugar, stopped alcohol (sugar) and refined carbs. What a complete turnaround and the benefits are beyond anything I can list. I just hope more hear this message.. our healthcare dollars are running out because doctors don’t care to know and the pharmaceutical machine runs the profession. Take a pill..don’t bother to do any work yourself. Sad😢

My two cents: subsidized soybean oil is in lots of products . Leave them in the store for healthy sake.

DR WEIL WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME ... SPOT ON ADVICE ! !

Fantastic! You'd think all this information would be common sense.

Wow, great information and a style of presenting.

Thank you.

Great talk !! Love the info . I heard you speak at IIN always great information

I'm trying to get people to understand how bad our food is. It is impossible to remain healthy with processed food. Even our flour is horrible. Italy uses stone ground real flour that is actually healthy

Great talk!!

thank you Mr Weil.. I was sold on Agave as causing a smaller spike in our blood sugar. Will switch to Maple, especially living in Canada. The diet a couple hundred years ago with no sugar & everything organic, must have been pretty good...except you were lucky if you made it past 30.

I’m 73 and recently diagnosed with Non Alcohol Fatty Liver. I’ve given up all added-sugar and have cut my carbohydrate consumption by 70%.

I never listened when they said stop eggs. I totally agree with white part is not tasty. You need the yolk. As for the center isles. I try my hardest not to go down them. Sticking with outer walls. Thank you for caring

Should be the #1 video on KZfaq.

Thank you very much Dr.Andrew I'm trying to make healthier choices as I am suffering from chronic pain. I've cut out refined sugars and white flours etc.eating more greens and fish oils. Fresh foods. Thank you again

Thank you Dr Weil for sharing this valued Anti inflammatory diet

Good Grief Pin Head People! LISTEN to what the man says! Does it matter what he looks like! Grow Up!

This is one of the very few people that make sense! Eat food that you can pronounce, not chemicals!

When you watch movies and TV shows from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s, notice not only the portion size difference but also the amount of food on the fork/spoon. I realize we’re talking movies. But today not only are portions much bigger, we often tend to shovel food in rather than fully chew and savor our food.

Andrew Weil is THE MAN!

This is one of the most sensible advice I've heard for a long time

Thank you, Dr. Weil. I am so so tired of the "diet wars". Vegan is best. No. Carnivore is the one. Go keto! It's making me crazy. Thank you for this common sense approach, which I am going to follow.

Excellent Talk

Salmon, Broccoli, berries, Dark Chocolate, Olive Oil, matcha green tea are health foods worth adding in your eating protocol.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Mediterranean diet.

This was a wonderful lecture with your summary of so much important research. Every school child should be informed about what you have been saying. In Germany previously, real fruit juice was sold in 1-liter bottles. Now the cheaper brands are 2 1/2 liter bottles, which are chiefly sugar and coloring. Children apparently feel a necessity to have a bottle of this sugar solution in the vicinity. Obesity is also becoming a serious health problem. Tell us more about inflammation in future lectures.

Ive completely eliminated the added sugar factor from packaged foods from my diet. I know exactly how much sugar I consume. I mostly use monk fruit sugar, because it doesn't cause glycemic spikes. I stopped eating and drinking almost all manufactured foods thru big Ag.

Great video.

I bought Dr Weils book on juicing for health over 20 ys ago to help with gallstones . Saved me from getting gall bladder surgery . Now what has slipped into our manufactured foods is the introduction of palm oil . Horrible !

The trend since 1900 has been to drop out produce from the diet. In 1900 US ate 130 lbs/yr/capita. By 2000, only 11. 11 lbs vs 130 lbs. In 1900 heart attack deaths were 3 percent, by 2000 over 50 percent. It's not what we eat, it's what we don't. And recall, in 1900 they didn't even have produce all year long.

Hi, Dr. Weil. Great info! Do you have any insight on why my serum IgA level might be elevated? It was checked 5 years ago. The lab's upper end cut-off was 394, and mine was 451 and 3 years later, it was 423. I'm healthy and now age 49. I requested an SPEP which found polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia, but doctor was unconcerned. Just curious if it's just 'normal' for some people.