Quotes By Mehmet Oz

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

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

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

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.

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

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.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

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.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

I get up at the same time every morning.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

Biology always beats will power.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

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.

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

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Medicine has always been my calling.

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

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 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.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

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

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.