Top 60 Mehmet Oz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The opposite of anger is not calmness, it’s empathy.”

— Mehmet Oz

2. “Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”

— Mehmet Oz

3. “Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.”

— Mehmet Oz

4. “Biology always beats will power.”

— Mehmet Oz

5. “Make the driving force in your life love.”

— Mehmet Oz

6. “Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.”

— Mehmet Oz

7. “The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.”

— Mehmet Oz

8. “Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.”

— Mehmet Oz

9. “If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.”

— Mehmet Oz

10. “It’s like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I’m in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.”

— Mehmet Oz

11. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

12. “Medicine has always been my calling.”

— Mehmet Oz

13. “If you don’t know your blood pressure, it’s like not knowing the value of your company.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

— Mehmet Oz

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

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16. “Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.”

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17. “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.”

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

— Mehmet Oz

19. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

20. “Food – I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they’re easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

— Mehmet Oz

22. “You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.”

— Mehmet Oz

23. “I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

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25. “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

26. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

— Mehmet Oz

28. “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.’”

— Mehmet Oz

29. “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.”

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30. “I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.”

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31. “I’ve got so many weaknesses.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don’t just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That’s not genetic.”

— Mehmet Oz

35. “We don’t need sugar to live, and we don’t need it as a society.”

— Mehmet Oz

36. “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.’”

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37. “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

38. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

— Mehmet Oz

40. “Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that’s why I continue to do it.”

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41. “Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we’re absorbed in a program.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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

45. “There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.”

— Mehmet Oz

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

— Mehmet Oz

47. “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

48. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

49. “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.”

— Mehmet Oz

50. “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