Mehmet Oz Quotes

I meditate and I’m passionate about it.

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

I’ve got so many weaknesses.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we’ve changed its nature.

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.

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.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that’s why I continue to do it.

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

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.

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

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.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.