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How I Built This with Guy Raz
It was picked up while Andrew was recovering from cancer, and he found it very engaging and hopeful. The book's insights on integrative medicine and nutrition influenced his understanding of healthy eating.
One day I picked up a book and this book was about nutrition. This book was called, it was something along the lines of Prescription for Nutritional Healing or Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing.
— Episode: Orgain: Andrew Abraham
Episode: Orgain: Andrew Abraham
It was picked up while Andrew was recovering from cancer, and he found it very engaging and hopeful. The book's insights on integrative medicine and nutrition influenced his understanding of healthy eating.
One day I picked up a book and this book was about nutrition. This book was called, it was something along the lines of Prescription for Nutritional Healing or Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing.
It probably felt empowering because you, when you are dealing with a health crisis, you are feeling very disempowered and because you don't always have control over what's happening. But I guess reading these books kind of gave you a sense of, okay, well, maybe I can take control over some part of this.
Exactly right. It gave me some control and it gave me a lot of hope. And between those two things, that's why I ended up reading 150 books that year because I needed as much hope and I wanted as much control as possible.