8 Weeks to Optimum Health

The best thing about this book is the philosophy that it is better to be healthy than to be cured by a doctor and that we should be using the body's own healing powers to stay on top of things. This is a philosophy that I think is becoming more popular in the 21st century (but maybe more as a way of thinking than a way of acting - if the habits of the people I know are anything to go by). But more and more people who suffer from chronic conditions that do not seem to be curable by conventional means would do well to take a look at this book. The advice may not always work, but none of it is radical enough to do you any harm.

Just after Christmas is a great time to be reading this - it is bound to help supoort some of those New Year Resolutions to adopt a healthier lifestyle. This is definitely worth reading - it could change your life forever.


This book is a compelling argument for better living.   January 28, 2002
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Dr. Weil draws the reader into a program that is easy to follow, gradually introduced, and convincingly worth doing. The research behind his various philiosophies is thorough and interesting, and the benefits to the program speak for themselves. One of the best better eating and living guides available.


I feel GREAT !   June 26, 1999
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This book is well written and simple to follow. It builds in useful lifestyle elements slowly and painlessly. You are told what to do to be healthy not that you can't do things. I feel a whole new lease of life after following this 8 week programme.


Great comprehensive directional book natural healing   March 24, 1999
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

It is a wonderful book for those beginning the process of natural healing. I found great improvement of my overall health after following his simple instructions.


down to earth, well-written; a really great book...   November 10, 1998
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

All of the titles of these sorts of books are faintly irritating; at some level we understand that, in an of itself, a book has limited impact. Yet Weil's book really makes sense, intuitively and practically. As a Harvard MD he is rooted in Western science; as an ethno-botanist he has reconnected with much of the wisdom that modernism discarded. The result is a wonderfully balanced book. Simply reading it is enjoyable; actually trying to implement some of it is bound to leave you feeling healthier and happier.