Mehmet Oz quotes

Mehmet Oz is a Turkish-American television personality, author, and cardiothoracic surgeon, widely recognized for hosting "The Dr. Oz Show." His medical expertise and charismatic style have made him a household name in both entertainment and health education. He continues to influence audiences as both a media figure and health advocate. Here are 92 of his quotes:

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Mehmet Oz

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biology always beats will power.

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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.

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

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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

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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.

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You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

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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.

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

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I get up at the same time every morning.

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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.

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There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

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