Dr. Andrew Weil

Dr. Andrew Weil is an internationally recognized expert on medicinal plants, integrative medicine and wellness. As the founder and Director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Weil is leading the global effort to develop a comprehensive integrative medicine curriculum.

Matcha is Weil’s latest botanically-based ‘alternative’ medicine. With an A.B. degree in botany from Harvard in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968, Dr. Weil has traveled the world collecting information about medicinal plants and alternative methods of treating disease. The author of 15 best-selling books and many scientific articles, Weil is a renowned expert on alternative plant-based healing. Matcha is the latest in his array of natural, plant-based options – he’s also “written the book” the ingestible healing power of plants, for example, The HealthyKitchen and Eating Well for Optimal Health.

Dr. Weil is also the founder and Chairman of the Weil Foundation, and founder and co-Chair of Healthy Lifestyle Brands and True Food Kitchen restaurants. A prolific writer Dr. Weil is the editorial director of Dr. Weil.com and appears on PBS.

Follow Dr. Weil on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DrWeil and Twitter @drweil. See column in Prevention magazine.

He lives with his beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

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He literally “wrote the book” on integrative medicine – in fact, he wrote 15 of them:

• The Natural Mind
• The Marriage of the Sun and Moon
• From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen)
• Health and Healing
• Natural Health, Natural Medicine
• Spontaneous Healing
• 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
• Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition
• The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit (with Rosie Daley)
• Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
• Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (issued in paperback (with new content) as You Can’t Afford to Get Sick)
• Spontaneous Happiness
• True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure (with Sam Fox and Michael Stebner)
• Fast Food, Good Food
• Mind Over Meds: When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better – and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own

Oxford University Press is currently producing the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, a series of volumes for clinicians in various medical specialties with Dr. Weil as the series editor. The following have been published, with more volumes planned:

• Integrative Oncology (co-edited with Dr. Donald Abrams) (2009, rev. 2014)
• Integrative Psychiatry and Integrative Pediatrics (2010)
• Integrative Women’s Health (2010, rev. 2015)
• Integrative Rheumatology, Integrative Cardiology, and Integrative Gastroenterology (2011)
• Integrative Men’s Health and Integrative Dermatology (2014)
• Integrative Nursing (2014, rev. 2018)
• Integrative Pain Management (2016)
• Integrative Environmental Medicine and Integrative Geriatric Medicine (2017)
• Integrative Preventive Medicine, Integrative Psychiatry and Brain Health, Integrative Sexual Health, and Integrative Addiction and Recovery (2018)