What podcasts say about Andrew Weil
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What Andrew Weil has said on podcasts
13 statements · 9 positive · 1 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
Coca is traditionally used primarily to treat gastrointestinal disorders.
“the main indication is for treating GI disorders”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 5:24
Coca may normalize blood sugar and metabolism.
“it has some normalizing effect on blood sugar and metabolism”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 6:13
Coca contains 14 alkaloids, most of which remain insufficiently studied.
“in coca there are 14 alkaloids”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 6:27
Whole coca may produce context-dependent gastrointestinal effects through opposing alkaloids.
“when you present the body with this mix of ambivalent molecules that push and they pull against physiology, the body decides what it wants to use”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 8:38
One Andean exercise study found coca use normalized blood sugar after a glucose load.
“at any point in the cycle where they began to chikoka, blood sugar would normalize”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 10:08
Coca’s stimulant effect is milder than coffee and pharmaceutical stimulants.
“the stimulant effect is so much milder, and Wade can talk to this, too, I think, than coffee, for example, or than any of the pharmaceutical stimulants”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 21:17
Andrew Weil claims coca may reduce hunger and support weight management.
“it also helps with weight management, Tim, because it makes you less hungry and feeling like you want to move”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 23:05
Andrew Weil reports that some cocaine users preferred coca and stopped using cocaine.
“when they tried coca and used it properly, they saw that it was a much more desirable state and they didn't want to use cocaine anymore”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 26:34
Andrew Weil proposes coca as a potentially safer stimulant treatment for ADHD.
“for treatment of adhd, for example, with a much safer stimulant”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 35:56
Coca could potentially help prevent or treat type 2 diabetes, pending research.
“if this shows potential for preventing or treating type 2 diabetes, that would be enormous”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 36:07
Andrew Weil judges psychiatry’s biomedical model to have substantially failed.
“his initiative to change psychiatry and move it away from the biomedical model, which I think has really failed us”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 53:08
Andrew Weil claims complex natural mixtures often work better and are safer than isolated compounds.
“very often I see that these complex natural mixtures work better, are much safer”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 56:44
Coca-Cola uses an extract made from remaining coca leaves as a flavoring ingredient.
“the rest of the leaves are made into an extract, which is a secret flavoring ingredient in Coca Cola”
Open the episode · #871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade DavisListen at 1:07:14
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