Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

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

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

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.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

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.

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.

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

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

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.'

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.

Biology always beats will power.

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.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I've got so many weaknesses.

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.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

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 do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.