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.
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.
You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.
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. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.
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.
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.
We need a wholesale reevaluation of what health feels like. Most Americans don't even know what that is anymore. I want to tell people, "Listen, there are places where you can focus on your health, and it can actually be simple."
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
Before you reach for the saltshaker, consider swapping your snacks for a healthier option.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.
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 feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
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 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 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 meditate and I'm passionate about it.
I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
I get up at the same time every morning.
Medicine has always been my calling.
