This newly revised edition of a Wall Street Journal bestseller offers an accessible guide to an ancient practice for healing and transformation--including new science, recipes, and more.

Featuring new, cutting-edge science, recipes, and a 10-day meal plan!
Our minds, our emotions, our relationships, and our bodies are out of kilter. We know it, but we tend to ignore it until something brings us up short--a worrying diagnosis, a broken relationship, or simply an inability to function harmoniously in everyday life. When things are a little off, we read a self-help book. When they're really bad, we bring in oncologists to address cancer, neurologists to repair the brain, psychologists to help us understand our family of origin.
This fragmented approach to health is merely a stopgap. To truly heal, we need to return to the original recipe for wellness discovered by shamans millennia ago.
Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a medical anthropologist--as well as his own journey back from the edge of death--acclaimed shamanic teacher Alberto Villoldo shows you how to detoxify the brain and gut with superfoods; use techniques for working with our luminous energy fields to heal your body; and follow the ancient path of the medicine wheel to shed disempowering stories from the past and pave the way for rebirth.
Using the principles and practices in this book, you can feel better in a few days, begin to clear your mind and heal your brain in a week, and in six weeks be on your way to a new body--one that heals rapidly, retains its youthful vitality, and keeps you connected to Spirit, to the earth, and to a renewed sense of purpose in your life.

Reader Reviews

Liana Ajrapetova

(5/5)

Nov 01, 2024

This book I was so excited to read, and honestly it did change my life with the way I focus on my body and health. An inspiring story of the author’s personal experience and research behind it, it’s a book I love to pick up every now and then when I feel my body needs a reboot. Everything to know about what to consume , and how it effects us, is perfectly described in this book.

Gloria Spencer

Already healing body & mindI have not been healthy for 18 years -since coming to the US and adopting the Standard American Diet (SAD).Diabetic & overweight with digestive issues, unable to heal with prescription drugs and self prescribed menagerie of supplements, I barely manage to function at work and have no energy left to live life. Then about 4 weeks ago I found this book by Alberto Villoldo. I have read and love some of his books, but this one immediately filled me with hope for healing and...

Thelma

Great Book to start a new body and life!! I really recommend this book for anyone who needs to reboot their health and is looking to go beyond the typical nutritional programs.. This book goes deeper to the causes that are bringing you down.a new way to eat, great vitamin and supplements suggestions and many more.. love Alberto Villoldos work and Grow a new body was not the exception.. looking forward to continuing learning and reading more from Dr. Alberto.

Pamela Langlois

I'm giving it 5 stars.

Cailin O'Connor

Making a nutritional shift is fully laid out here with research and nutritional information that makes sense. List of supplements is magical - things that need to go together and things you never heard of that work wonders when combined all together.Stopping sugar sweets, cake, cookies and candybars was most difficult and starchy foods impossible to overcome until I followed this program with the S. Boulardii. It changed my life for renewed energy and needing a lot less food. Sugar is toxic and

Shannon Storm

Required reading for healthLove love love Alberto! One of the best Healers on Earth today. Required reading for all. The essentials of health.

Reading Cat

(2/5)

I eagerly anticipated this book...to my peril. Seems like Villoldo has decided to round up literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of the current nutrition trends and now try to tell us that this is how MesoAmerican shamans ate. It's literally all here. Keto? Yup. Intermittent fasting? Uh huh. Gluten free and dairy free? You bet. Plant based? YOU KNOW IT. In fact, he argues that meat is basically bad for you. Uh, my Native American ancestors were hunters and fishers. I'm...not buying that they were less spir...

Mindy Tillery

Great advice for good health practice The content was very rich with stories & great health care longevity strategies. I would recommend this book to anyone who is having health problems & to anyone who wants to age gracefully & peacefully.

Didu

(4/5)

What I don’t want to see in a book about health is the mentioning of Harry Potter and The Lord of the rings, otherwise this book was informative.

Ilona Acs

Geweldige inzichten over een spiritueel leven opbouwen, dat alles te maken heeft met gezondheid en uitlegt wat gezond is.

Eerika

This book was very inspirational! I started already. For me it is the day 4 of preparing for the grow a new body program. It is great how this book combines physical, mental and spiritual aspects. The following text is about the diet because that's where I've started.This book was a bit exhausting to read because of all the scientific proofing. Also the instructions are scattered in the different chapters. It could be a good idea to make notes while reading. I've been jumping between some of the...

Poppy Villavicencio

Great program. Felt amazing when complete. Will definitely do it again. Hard. I planned a lot of time around doing it and it took a lot of effort to complete. Totally worth it.

Liv

The best book in its genre I have read in some time. I may revise my rating up should incorporating the precepts yield the results described.

Carolyn

I like this book. Recommend it to anyone who is seriously thinking about what true health and healing are. It is informative and educational.

Carrie

I really took my time reading this book. It's filled with so much wonderful information. I was doing my own research on some of the supplements while I read it. I do take most of the supplements now. I am almost through 3 weeks of eating more naturally whole foods and taking supplements. Everyone around saw a difference in my weight and the glow of my skin within the first week. What a difference! Our minds, bodies and souls definitely need equal attention. I'm so thankful for this book and for

Luiza

I really liked how this book connected health and spirituality. There were some spiritual concepts I couldn't really grasp, but I felt it was a good introduction to them. While the 21-day program feels too prescriptive to me and I don't really believe in "resets", there were a few key pieces of information I learned that are highlighted in this book and have also appeared in other material I've read that seem to be important to good health.

Tanesha

Please ReadThis book will absolutely change your life forever. The information in this book will have you live longer and with a health status you never knew was possible.

Kitzel

Fascinating. Read it in Dutch, was at first sceptical of Al the nutrition stuff but then it kicked home. I'm not sure if I'll follow the programme at some point in the future, but I am integrating the good foods and good advice for sure. The chapters on the medicine wheel I loved the most - but then I'm a sucker for symbolism and unity experiences!

Anna De keulenaar

(1/5)

typical self-help book written on a narcissistic "I shall heal you, peasant" tone.

Janet Bbgr

(3/5)

Veel te veel supplementen. En alle dieettrends worden genoemd. Niks nieuws.

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