Dr. Oz: On How To Create Healthier Habits and Change Your Relationship With Food

There are a lot of folks who very appropriately medicate with food because it turns out that carbohydrates, simple carbs especially, are incredibly soothing to the brain. They hit the brain like crack cocaine.

"If you can't take charge of your own health, if you can't control what's going on inside your body, how can you change the world outside it?

People who hang with healthy people get healthy. People who hang with unhealthy people get sick.

Think about someone you really adore and really love... If they were putting in their body what you're putting in your body, what would you tell them? Because whatever that is, tell that to yourself.

A nap is much more effective than caffeine or carbohydrates or any of the other things you may try in the afternoon. Eight hours after you wake... take a five or ten-minute nap. It'll change your life.

People do not change based on what they know. They change based on what they feel.

Turmeric has a remarkable and powerful effect on reducing amyloid plaques in the brain

I don't have any coffee or any caffeine until later in the day and I'll challenge everyone who can hear my voice to do the same

If you don't know what you're aiming for, you can't possibly head in that direction

People who have a ring finger longer than their index finger had testosterone exposure in utero

Create an environment that feeds what you're good at and protects you from what you're not good

If you don't mature your taste buds, if you infantilize them with fast food and junk food, then they never grow up to become real taste buds