Dr. Andrew Weil

guest·4 claims·1 episode

4 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.

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  1. JRE #1213▶ 25:16

    “the word is that 25% of women between 40 and 50 are on antidepressants and 10% of adults in the country”

    Weil claims 25% of American women aged 40-50 and 10% of all adults in the US are on antidepressants.

  2. JRE #1213▶ 13:28

    “He calls it tension myositis syndrome, and he explains the mechanism of how it works one friend of mine he was in his late 20s uh played a lot of basketball ha…”

    Weil recounts Dr. John Sarno's theory that back pain (tension myositis syndrome) is caused by repressed emotion, and describes a friend whose herniated-disc pain vanished after reading Sarno's book, avoiding surgery.

  3. JRE #1213▶ 1:31:05

    “No native of Lourdes has ever been cured. And the chances that a person is going to be healed there”

    Weil claims no native resident of Lourdes has ever been healed there, and that the odds of being healed are directly proportional to the length of the journey to reach it.

  4. JRE #1213▶ 22:19

    “you can amputate half of the liver, and it can regenerate within 36 hours”

    Weil claims that after removing half the liver, it fully regenerates within 36 hours.