Quotes By Mehmet Oz

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.

Biology always beats will power.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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've got so many weaknesses.

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.

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.

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 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 do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

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.

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

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

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.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

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.

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

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.