The Power of Words and How They Can Affect Your Health | Dr. Andrew Weil on Health Theory 

To anybody who’s reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. May the dark thoughts, the overthinking, and the doubt exit your mind right now. May clarity replace confusion. May peace and calmness fill your life.

I learned of Dr Weil years ago while researching how to heal naturally from lupus. I have several of his books and still listen to his recordings. He is an awesome healer.

Tom! Thank you for your videos but please stop interrupting your guests mid-sentence to talk about your own experiences & insert your own interpretation of their ideas... Please let them finish their sentences first & then ask your questions. Thank you!

No doc like Dr. Weil, love this man...if only traditional medicine would take a tiny piece of his knowledge and work with it.

Is Tom on speed today? He's not even letting Dr. Weil talk..

I am one of those that believed my body could heal despite 4 medical doctors giving me a death sentence because of lupus. That was at age 26, critically ill and hospitalized. Because of teachings from Dr Weil and many other functional and holistic practitioners I’m now 67, no meds , no pain, Living a healthy normal healthy life.

Just the fact that he looks the same now as he did then is a testimony to him

I just couldn’t watch this video. I managed 9 minutes in but all the interruptions of the interviewee made it difficult to follow. I’m going to google this guys work and learn more elsewhere. Sorry Tom. Chill a bit. Let the guy speak.

Love Dr Weil and his cute pups ♥️

I love Dr. Weil's home. Looks so natural and full of chill. Especially those two handsome lugs laying around in the background.

I am going to watch another video to see Weil discuss his views on health. Tom is so passionate about this subject that I think he had a hard time letting Weil talk.

I was going to comment on Tom's poor interviewing skills today and with one of the best guest he could have. But so many others have stated it there is no reason for me to say a thing.

Don’t know if someone is reading this, but if you are: You are amazing and beautiful! I believe in you! ❤️💌

The dog though, priceless.

I like the concept Tom is after and I know he's had a lot of success in it but Ive noticed it over and over again that he interrupts the people he's interviewing and likes to give his opinion. And honestly a lot of times he sounds a bit arrogant and talks just to talk. This is just me, but as an interviewer aren't u to dive into the mind of ur guest and learn and expose as much from what they have learned in life as u can?

Dr. Weil’s Main Message: You can get better (You can heal). 1.The body can heal itself 2. Dr. has a botany background before going to medical school 3. His mentor Richard Schultes introduced him to ethnobotany 4. Ethnobotany - Study of plants as they are used by other cultures, mainly traditional peoples. 5. Had an interested in plant medicine and psychedelics and his medical degree allowed him to work in this area. 6.Interested in how the mind affects the body - consciousness 7. Is consciousness part of the brain or not. He believes those are separate aka Panpsychism 8. Panpsychism is the view that mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. It is also described as a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe." 9. Your brain matter can change through thought and other ways where you work the brain - similar to exercise. 10. Firewalking - scientific explanation is a small layer of air that insulates the heat. Or hot coals is not a good conductor of heat. Dr. Weil says this is nonsense. He has gotten burned with shorter walks and did ok with a 40 foot walk. Dr. Weil thinks it is a mental state. 11.This is based on using your mental state to change body’s cell structure. He was in poor mental state and burned his feet and a strong mental states when he did a successful firewalk. 12. Dr. Weil was sick and had an out of body experience. He saw his body surrounded by doctors. This is an example of conscious state separate from the physical body. 13. Mental state plays a big factor in healing. 14. Dr. Weil uses MDMA to get into altered state. It allowed him to pet a bumblebee because he was so relaxed. It was an experiment he heard about and wanted to experience himself. 15. Dr. Weil sees himself as a open minded skeptic. Most of his viewpoints are based on personal experience. “Strong convictions, loosely held” - Tom Bilyeu states is how his mindset works. 16. If you don’t like something, you can change your internal mindset to change your behavior. 17. On changing your mindset and consciousness, Weil states a study that shows how meditators (meditation) are able to change their brain’s physical structure. 18. This is why Dr. Weil says focusing on your breath is a good place to create a safe environment for the mind. 19. COVID is creating a mental health test. 20. It’s normal to have moods but there are some reasons for poor mental health 21. Disconnect with nature 22. Today’s few hunter-gatherer societies don’t have depression. They have healthy diets. Not connected to devices (phones). 23. Today’s society is in self isolation, no human connection 24. Western diet is another issues. Stop eating processed and refined food. 25. Dr. Weil is a pescatarian (Vegetarian that eats fish) a. Grows his own food b. Eats health fats (Fatty fish, olive oil) c. Eat healthy carbs d. Sugar - stop eating it. e. Some fruit is fine 26. Our nation (USA) is a nutritional mess. We made unhealthy food cheap and easily available. 27. If one change - Stop drinking sweet liquids. Body cannot metabolize fructose. 28. Wants civilization to decreased meat consumption. Better for health and environment. Animal farming and civilization sprawl is increasing animal to human disease transfers aka COVID 29. We have an issue with cultural amnesia with past pandemics, like the Spanish Flu. We need to prepare better. 30. Healthy organisms are naturally resistant. Healthy eating helps the micro biome. 31. Feels that pharmaceuticals hurts the body’s immune system to fix issues like GERD / Heart Burn with pharmaceuticals versus improving diet. 32. There is no money to be made making people healthy 33. Dr. Weil is always looking for new foods. Has a matcha tea company. It’s the powdered form of green tea harvested in Japan. You need to get a good quality powder. Tea has high content of nutrients and antioxidants. 34. Believes in cold therapy. Jumps in the ocean each day. He spends time in British Colombia where the water is VERY cold. 35. Stinging Nettles is great to stop allergies 36. MDMA is great for PTSD and sees it being accepted by the public eventually 37. Psilocybin will be accepted for depression but trickier since the patient needs a guide to get the full effect. 38. Marijuana - in his 20s made him imaginative and free. And in his 30s he felt more paranoid and stopped using it. But still interested for medicinal uses. 39 Dr. Weil suggested Tom to try MDMA since there is a low chance for health issues.

Tom You are a very good interviewer. My own perception on this particular interview, is it appeared you would not let the interviewee complete his explanation. Just my observation. I will continue to watch and support your excellent work.

So love Andrew Weil. He was one of the first doctors who emphasized the danger of inflammation. He is an embodiment of health. Also, the dogs are adorable. :)

That being said...thank you for interviewing Dr. Weil...he's up there with healers that I most respect.

Tom always talks about striving to get better at whatever a person wants to be great at. Tom must not read these comments. Otherwise, he'd learn his audience thinks he should not interrupt guest. Tom: Monologue format or dialogue format please choose one.

Excellent video! We are both in our 80's and are all about healthy aging. We still strive for a healthy body, a calm mind, and a positive outlook. And now we feel better than ever! We are doing research for our new tiny RU-vid channel and learned a lot here. Thank you and keep it going!

Let your guest speak

Hey Tom. This is just the problem in the USA. 78 is not old!! I am 79 and was told just yesterday that I look 65. I always eat real food, cook, exercise. I also had an advantage from growing up without any medicine and only 1 vaccine (small pox to go to school). I don't even have white hair. Hoping to go past 90. Of course, no medications now. I am against big Pharma for the most part. Life is fantastic.

I've been listening to him for 20 years!! I think he is a genius!! So much insight to prevent cancer etc. Thank you Dr. Weil!!

Loved this! I’ve been following Dr. Weil for years since the mid 90’s. So much wisdom and such a drive to keep learning and sharing. Much appreciation for his work. 🙏🏻

Tom really takes the center stage of the show instead of his guest.

Just discovered Mr. Bilyeu one interview ago because he was interviewing a person I was interested in. Same here. And I agree with some others that Tom gets a little overanxious and interrupts, so he might want to consider becoming a better listener. Overall, though, enjoyed the interview, mainly because Dr. Weil is such an interesting guy and for many more reasons than I knew. It's a tragedy that more doctors don't take the route he did. Our medical system is so entirely screwed up -- not only from a healing standpoint,, but from a system based on profit standpoint. Gotta give a nod to Dr. Weil's dogs, too, starting from the head on the arm of the sofa right at the beginning. Love to all!

One of my all time favorite people to follow! Thank you so much for having Dr. Weil on the podcast.

I firewalked, felt the heat, but it wasn't bothersome. I had no blisters. It was one of the coolest things ever. We are capable of so much!

There is only one way to heal your self (your body). And to do so you must begin to release all of the pain associated with your past that has gradually built up inside of your system. And yes, this you do through the act of forgiveness. By intelligently letting go of everything that is able to make you unhappy.

Great contact! Thank you Tom 🙂! The breathing suggestion is great, recommend to everyone!

I love Dr.Weil!

I am going to go look for interviews with Dr Weil, and his books, I am really interested in what he has to say.

Tom you interrupted and talked about yourself when I clicked to listen to Dr. Weil.

Tom does his homework. He presents very stimulating topics and challenges the ideas to encourage a educational talk. Admirable!

He asks him a question then cuts him off with a new question before letting him finish the first one or simply interrupts him while he’s still talking. Wow. I’m going to google this doctor to learn more about what he has to say.

Almost unwatchable because all Tom does is cut him off and rant his question then leave no time for response. Less caffeine next time, Tom. A wasted interview on an incredible guest.

WISDOM COMES WITH AGE THAT YOUTH CANNOT POSSESS 💜

Love what he says about mental health and CONNECTION TO NATURE. Thanks for another great convo, Tom! 👍🌳

It Is So Good To See You Again. You are my favorite healer. You still look good. Amen to you and your family ❤❤❤❤

Great conversation! Really informative & enjoyable. You should definitely have him on your show again.

WOW, Weil! This is great. Thanks Tom!

Hi Dr those beautiful set of Ridgback you have are very well behaved 🐕🐕beautiful hounds 🐕🐕🐕 great show Tom, as always. Thank you

Great interview guys! Feel your heart with love, feel your brain with knowledge, and feel your spirit with joy 😊👍

Thank you So much for this beautiful interview. I found it to be very entertaining and down to earth. Also very educational. It definitely shows a side of Dr. Weil and yourself that I never saw before. Love it! I smash the like button and hit subscribe

Tom - I love your channel - I have heard you say many times over that you're sensitive to 'woo woo' because you think there is a lack of scientific proof. Well, as a scientist I can truly say that science is NOT the be all and end all of 'knowing'. In fact, it's incredibly limited by subjective opinions and biases, and is often driven or directed by 'prior findings and studies'. This is like looking into the night sky and only seeing the stars, but not the unknown spaces in between. Science hasn't really revealed that much about our reality - there is a lot more that is unknown than what is known. Most Western medicine is simply 'study-backed' or 'proven' ancient medicine or traditional plant medicine anyway. We need to keep an open mind and accept that there is a ridiculous amount of unknown and unproven theories - science can never prove anything to be true, it can only disprove or provide correlative probabilities (which in itself is based on what we already know or believe to be true).

Wow that dog at the beginning resting his head on the sofa arm rest... 😍 And then suddenly, two!!!

Dr andrew weil is awesome

First time I have listened to him, more insights gained today! Thank you . P.S I like the Eames lounge chair in the back ground tres stylish.

Andrew you are so informative and so amazing I'm going to be looking for more of your videos

Enjoyed this. ☺️ I can feel my dream of Tom Bilyeu x Eckhart Tolle coming true. ❤️🙏😁 those two sides of myself interacting just sounds so great. 💕

PLEASE let's talk more about MDMA. I absolutely LOVED that drug in my 20s and I really think it was instrumental in my healing from abuse.

Hi Tom So glad to find your channel. I have for years struggle with anorexia and bulimia than alcoholism. Never would take medication. I am so open to telling how I know it is mind over matter .

That was great, I really enjoy listening to him. With all my new anti inflammatory info, I really annoy my dad - so many old people eat white bread all the time and wheat and don’t realise what it’s doing to them. Half the world are on pills and yet their doctors never ask about their diet, we live in an unconscious society.

Thanks I love Andrew Weil ideas

Awesome awesome awesome interview!!! THANK YOU !!!

Really enjoyable and informative interview. Ty Tom & Dr Weil.

Tom you’ve got to stop interrupting! You ask the next question before he even answers the previous! Love Andrew Weil, he is incredible !!!

I have one of his meditation CDs. He's definitely full of info.

Thank you for interviewing Dr. Weil. I wish you let him speak. I guess you were so interested in the subject it almost became a 101 QA. It’s still great info. Thanks again.

Open minded skeptic and closed minded skeptic, I love these terms and and it puts to words what I’ve encountered in my personal experience.

For that 1918 flu, there is a documentary on Netflix called Pandemic that talks about these viruses outbreaks, sources, mass graves and how the land is monitored/maintenaned, etc. To ensure there's no human agricultural use.

Amazing episode thank you 🙏🏻💖🌷

You teaching us a lot thank you

Love the dogs in the background

Very anointing interview!

Tim in this podcast I’m in the minute 10:42 and it seems you are the interviewee instead of the interviewer. You don’t allow the Dr. to talk constantly interrupting and over-speaking to him.

Love his doggie resting his chin over the couch, now moved to the couch, and his pal on the floor.

Wow, great talk, gonna read more from him, I could have listened to at least 2 more hoursp

I had to add another comment I really love this video thank you so much Andrew and Tom

Nice. Love your channel

Great episode.

Tom you are amazing

I´d love to hear more about HRT being not possible in your 30s, 40s... I kind of refuse to believe this. I got very severe anorexia at age 13, for most of my adult life I´ve been struggling with eating disorders. It took 15 years for me to recover. Only 2 years ago , at 28, I started to attend gym, eat much more and... man, I,ve never been fitter or stronger in my entire life... I have muscles which I did not have before eating disorders... So this is interesting for me. I thought it´s not possible... but once I told my mind we are fricking doing this!!! I´ve observed exponential growth

I love you tom good job 👍🍀

Tom, you mentioned that if the argument is "life has shown me that you can take your body out of a healing state by doing things mentally or putting your body IN a healing state by doing things mentally, even if it's not objectively true, it has served me to view it that way, there is certainly power in that." It made me wonder about religion...do you think this line of reasoning should apply to religion as well?

And do believe on the contagious of the mood and how we feed off of it !

Also Sativa and Indica are both different in their effects inherently. Indica is more sedative and Sativa is more stimulative.

Excellent interview. It was over too soon.

Fantastic video & info! As always bringing it Mr. Bilyeu., but definitely one drug at a time, weed by itself first., then MDMA by itself .,, lol., mad love! 💯

32:00 Actually there's a word that can be written in English that comes from Greek and means both breathing and spirit. It's "PNEUMA".

Checking in from the DMV

That's one HEALTHY BEARD!

Tom: Obviously you are going through tough times. Don't mistake talking with your shrink with conducting an interview.

I did fire walking once. I felt no heat. I mean, I knew it wss there but I didn't feel it as anything damaging or painful and It felt more like someone near by with warm skin.

Always. When you learn something out of books that is called secondary learning. Healthy living happening always directly .

Other than surgery, what can be done for hydrocele?

Guest: " When we finish talking, am gonna go jump into the ocean" lool

"please go to a doctor for information" - I 💯 get where your heart lies in this but unfortunately in my experience, this video and you Hannah have more info in your little pinky then many doctors! This goes for most "women's reproductive issues" like endo, adeno, PCOS, vulvodynia etc. Love your education and support for conditions like this 💕

Tom needs Joe Dispenza back on to help him out with this.

He should add references and recommendations for nettles, Macha and all the other agents he recommends.

Dr. Weil starts talking about dogs. Two dogs come into the room. What more do you want.

What was his answer for "what is the one thing you recommend?" ? greate question, I can't find it in the video

Wish Dr Weil was given more opportunity to speak. I so enjoy listening to the Dr on any subject. Disappointed the interviewer dominated the program. Also, wish Dr Weil didn't feel the need to follow the interviewers foul language. It didn't add anything to the interview.

I just ordered some Nettle leaves and capsules from iHerb, for my sinus allergies, I hope it works because constantly sneezing and not being able to breathe is a miserable way to live. Antihistamines and decongestant pills make me feel awful. Thanks for the interview, less interruptions would have been better though.

LOVE that tee shirt tommy.

Love your interviews Tom but too many interruptions in this one.

hehe. I love you tom! great mind firing on all cylinders. I love it. Andrew has a great way of being too.

Dr. Weill, love your dogs....

I have it CD spontaneous happiness it was so great I love it