Best 83 quotes of Mehmet Oz on MyQuotes

"A hundred years ago, in this country, we were more comfortable with these discussions [of past lives, touching the spiritual world, collective unconsciousl] than we are today. I think part of that is that we have gotten addicted to the same serum that I'm taking, which is the belief that the answers are always going to be right there in front of us. And sometimes ya gotta take that leap.

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

Any food products made from flour, especially whole-wheat flour, form gas when broken down in the large intestine. Beware of eating these types of food before bedtime to avoid feeling inflated in the morning.

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.

As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine, is energy medicine. It's not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It's not the chemistry of our body. It's understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel.

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.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

Biology always beats will power.

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Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

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

Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.

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

Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

I get up at the same time every morning.

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 have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

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.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

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.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

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.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

Make the driving force in your life love.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Medicine has always been my calling.

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It demands all your time.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

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.

Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.

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.'

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