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. – Mehmet Oz
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. – Mehmet Oz
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. – 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. – Mehmet Oz
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. – Mehmet Oz
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. – 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. – Mehmet Oz
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. – Mehmet Oz
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. – Mehmet Oz
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. – Mehmet Oz
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn’t professional. – Mehmet Oz
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. – 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. – Mehmet Oz
You don’t have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life. – Mehmet Oz
Medications almost always do it better if they’re used in conjunction with other supports. – Mehmet Oz
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we’re absorbed in a program. – Mehmet Oz
