Live from the 2022 Integrative Healthcare Symposium

The evolution of integrative medicine

Integrative medicine has become fully accepted in academic discourse and yet an awful lot of people today have no idea what integrative medicine is, said Andrew Weil, MD, taking the stage at the 2022 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

Weil, who is the founder and director of The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, started his keynote by tracing his personal journey on how he came to develop the field of integrative medicine.

It was his interest in plants that led him to concentrate on botany during his time as an undergraduate at Harvard University. He was particularly interested in psychedelic plants and was shocked to find out the people who taught him pharmacology had no idea where these plants came from.

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