Mark Hyman Quotes

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

In medicine it is … necessary that causes both health and disease should be determined.

Today there are no Alzheimer’s survivors. That means that Alzheimer’s patients can’t speak for themselves. Widespread blood tests could create an army of “pre-Alzheimer’s” patients clamoring for breakthroughs in treatment.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

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

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Cancer does not discriminate.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.