“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.”
Diet
“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.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Mehmet Oz
“Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.”
Food“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.”
Health“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.”
Government“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.”
Health“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.”
Great“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.”
Health“It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.”
Respect“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.”
Food“A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.”
Best“Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.”
Women“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.”
Health“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.”
Intelligence“We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.”
Society“I get up at the same time every morning.”
Morning“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.”
Alone“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.”
Health“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”
Anger“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.”
Morning“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.”
Food