Michael Greger Quotes

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.

With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

People choose to struggle when people don't want to relax. Sometimes it is not on your side. Relax; calm down. No matter how hard the waves are, you will float on the ocean.

Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.

You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?