“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.”

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.