Neal Barnard Quotes

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

… satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

All exercise releases endorphins and makes you feel good.

If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.

I'm sober now and very happy.

I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.

LSU has a strong drug testing program and LSU went to great lengths to help me in my treatment and recovery.

Music is a healing tool.

I love sport, and I play to keep myself fine in the mind, because it helps there.

Walking is great because it's an amazing exercise, and it also helps to clear your head and relieve any built-up stress before the work day begins.

Yoga is how I got sober.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

We need to provide people access to treatment options that work for them, which should include long-term access to medication, behavioral therapy and family support services.

But if I go for a run somewhere, I feel the benefits of the endorphin release.

Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.

I didn't get into fitness until my late twenties. I had put on a lot of weight; I was quite chubby and feeling really depressed. But exercise helped everything - the body and the mind.

I'm drug-free. I don't drink.

What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.