“There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.”

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.