“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.”

American physician and author

Andrew Weil is an American physician and author known for promoting integrative medicine. Born in 1942, he became a prominent voice for combining standard medical care with selected complementary and alternative therapies. He founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1994. Weil has also written widely read books on health, healing, nutrition, and ageing, and several of them reached bestseller lists.