#14 Healing, Not Just Treating: An Integrative Medicine Approach
In this conversation, Dr. Victoria Maizes shares her insights from nearly 40 years of experience as a physician, emphasising the importance of understanding personal health through symptoms. She discusses the journey towards holistic healing and the empowerment of patients through knowledge, aiming to provide resources that help individuals navigate their health journeys effectively.
Key Topics Discussed:
- Your symptoms may show you the direction to take.
- Understanding health is a personal journey.
- Holistic healing is about being healthy and whole.
- Patients need to be empowered with knowledge.
- It’s different to be healthy and whole.
- Your health journey is unique to you.
- Listening to your body is crucial.
- Knowledge is power in health.
- Healing is a journey, not a destination.
About our guest:
Dr Victoria Maizes is a global leader in integrative medicine and the Founding Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, as well as Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arizona.
She is the author of the newly released book Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body’s Rapid Recovery Reflex, published by Macmillan in the UK in January 2026. The book explores how we can support the body’s natural ability to recover more quickly and effectively. She is also the editor of the Oxford University Press textbook Integrative Women’s Health and the author of Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximising Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child.
Dr Maizes co-hosts the popular podcast Body of Wonder with Dr Andrew Weil and has been named one of the world’s 25 “Intelligent Optimists” by ODE magazine.
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