Andrew Weil Quotes

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Antioxidants are completely useless.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.

What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.

I was a vegetarian through many of my teen years and easily revert back to that occasionally, but my immune system is usually happier with a bit of real meat.

Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.

I love protein powder.

If I wanted to eat all the protein I need from food, I would have to eat something like 10 chickens per day. That is impossible.

I'm a protein enthusiast, as it forms the foundation of our nutrition.

I definitely stay on top of my Vitamin C.

I eat healthy and drink a lot of water. I eliminated most white sugar and dairy from my diet. It's done wonders for me not only in maintaining a healthy weight, but it's increased my energy levels and immunity.

Immune system will heal itself.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.

For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.