Robert Winston Quotes

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.

My immune system just really struggled with the medicine after the appendix and I kept on getting ill. People said I was injured but I was never injured.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.

The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.