Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “We don’t need sugar to live, and we don’t need it as a society.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “It’s difficult to love someone you don’t respect, which is hard to remember when you’re having an argument.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.’” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Biology always beats will power.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “I get up at the same time every morning.” -Mehmet Oz

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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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we’ve changed its nature.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “You don’t have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “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.” -Mehmet Oz

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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.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.” -Mehmet Oz

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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. – Mehmet Oz

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