Words matter. These are the best Mehmet Oz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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.’
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.
Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
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 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.
You don’t have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
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.
I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.
I’m sure people think that I’m out in left field you know, playing by myself.
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.
I don’t operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it’s the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.
I get up at the same time every morning.
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
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.
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that’s why I continue to do it.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn’t professional.
I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
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.
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.
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.
Medicine has always been my calling.
We don’t need sugar to live, and we don’t need it as a society.
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They’re not. Often they’re sharp people who think differently about disease.
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 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 feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don’t like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
