Quotes By Mehmet Oz

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Biology always beats will power.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

I've got so many weaknesses.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.