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...people ever visit Weil in his desert hideaway, untold numbers somehow manage to reach him nonetheless. Every week a flood of more than 500 pieces of paper mail--passed on, bucket-brigade style, from publishers, post-office boxes and agents--washes up at Weil's door. Thousands more pour in electronically, transmitted to Weil not at his unpublicized mailing address but at his widely known Web address (www. drweil.com) If the tone of the letters is not exactly rapturous, it comes pretty close...
...correspondent writes to thank Weil for saving her mother's life. Suffering from a rapidly advancing case of cancer, the mother had been given three months to live--until, in desperation, she began listening to Weil's tapes and following his advice. That was two years ago, and her disease is in complete remission. Another woman reports that she was once told by her doctor that she had just months to live. She began experimenting with alternative treatments, and she reports with perhaps a dollop too much satisfaction, "It's four years later, that doctor is dead...
Others write not to praise Weil but to probe him. Is there any alternative to pharmaceutical drugs to treat allergies? someone wants to know. There sure is, Weil answers on the Web. Try a few leaves from the stinging-nettle plant, generally sold freeze-dried and packed in capsules. Are there any natural sex enhancers available? someone else asks. Absolutely, Weil answers. Men can try the Indian herb ashwagandha, which literally translates as "smells like a horse" but may pay back in sexual vigor whatever price it exacts in aroma. Women might consider damiana, the dried leaf of a Mexican...
...Weil rather enjoys his role as epistolary medicine man and most times would be perfectly content to spend his days answering his mail, writing his books and rarely leaving his desert redoubt, which he shares with his wife, their five-year-old daughter and his wife's three children by her first marriage. "I'm rather shy," Weil says. "If I had my druthers, I'd do most of my work without ever leaving home...
...been a while, however, since Weil had his druthers; this year the congenitally shy physician has gone decidedly public. A recent, typical fortnight saw him making book-tour appearances in Miami on a Saturday, Austin on Sunday, Minneapolis the following Thursday, Chicago on Friday, Cincinnati on Tuesday and Phoenix the next Saturday. He has breezily chatted up hosts on morning talk shows, shared his thoughts on evening-newsmagazine shows and kept studio audiences captivated for 90 minutes at a stretch discussing nothing more dramatic than antioxidants, ginseng and the value of regular exercise. Weil's crinkly smile, easy manner...