Andy Weil has been marketeering for decades. Scuttlebutt has him connected with Timothy Leary and Baba Ram Dass going back to Harvard. Those guys, well, if you know the lay of that land of the lost, went off into their tangents while Weil maintained his academic and clinical "legitimacy."Pop culture skews them several ways. From off the wall to being worthy of a Hollywood ending in an exotic pharmacopoeian quest. Weil's renown is as a nutritional guru, but ever so mainstreamed toward cash flow - he's got a restaurant now too. (Imagine the mark-up on your turkey burger.) Giving him his due, his clinical mission is to congregate the disciplines... the allopaths, the naturopaths, the chiros, etc., along with Chinese and Vedic traditions. A natural confluence, you'd think; then there's the professional guilds to put a kibosh on that. Que sera. Meanwhile (sorry), he goes all Martha, eh?
(I should know better about health issues but am complacent.)
At any rate, I was glad to find Mr. Natural bouncing out of his easy chair. (Knew he was somewhere in the cyberspace.) It really irks me when people make comments along the lines of S. Claus about me beard. So I'll ask them if they've ever read R Crumb.
Then bring up Dr. Weil, though I don't recall the last veggie I ate.
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