Steven Gundry Quotes

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Prevention is better than cure.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

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 worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.