“If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.” IfsAbleRememberWindLifestyleMarathonChanging Your LifeSprint Author:Mehmet Oz
“If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.” IfsWaySometimesLaughingOur LivesGood TimesHaving A Good Time Author:Mehmet Oz
“People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMeanImportantMatterUnderstandingAdviceAwarenessProfoundVisceral Author:Mehmet Oz
“It takes around 30 minutes for your body to realize you're full, so if you're hungry when you sit down to eat, and you eat as quickly as most Americans do, you're just going to keep throwing down food before that feeling kicks in.” IfsFeelingsBodyRealizingMinutesYour BodyHungryKicksThrowing Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” PeopleIfsBelieveHeartPersonsSawsGracePrayingSucceedPatientArroganceControlledChestsArrogantGrace Of GodSurgeonsBelieve You Can Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” IfsNeedsEndsNightVoiceSleepIssuesEmotionalHealthHealth CareThe End Of The DayRight PlaceEmotional HealthBarometer Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” PeopleIfsHeartHas BeensDifferentSimpleStepsSawsDiseaseLifestyleDietsRight ThingFrustratedTrajectoryHeart Disease Author:Mehmet Oz
“Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.” IfsUsedSupportMedicationConjunctions Author:Mehmet Oz
“There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.” PeopleIfsBelieveImportantShowsI BelieveJudgingNazi Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” PeopleIfsWholeCareAmericaPayPrinciplesSickFundamentalsIllnessHealth CareMore MoneyPreventingGamingFundamental Principles Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” PeopleIfsUseWalksJourneyWalkingCreatingWork OutWanderLunchHikingWorkplaceIncentivesStairsTrekkingStrollingSauntering Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” IfsStillsCareDiesNextNaturalHurtPatientWork OutGet UpIt HurtsNext DayInclinationHurt Me Author:Mehmet Oz
“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. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.” IfsWayLooksUseCarefulBe Careful Author:Mehmet Oz
“There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.” IfsSpiritCertainProcessHealingElementsCaptureHealing Process Author:Mehmet Oz
“If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.” IfsKnowsValuesCompanyKnowingBloodPressureNot KnowingBlood Pressure Author:Mehmet Oz
“If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.” IfsWantHealthyHundredQigong Author:Mehmet Oz
“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.” IfsStillsWholePicksEyesight Author:Mehmet Oz
