Health Practices Quotes

I realized, year of the tiger was 1974, which was the year my father passed away when I was a kid... My family, at that point, were Christian Scientists. So basically, this woman Mary Baker Eddy started this in the 1800s, and the premise is that you don't go to doctors. You believe that God is gonna heal you.

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they're consumed to bedtime.

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.

People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that support old wives' tales.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was weird. I eat nutritional yeast. And sometimes I take clay shots to help pull toxins out of my body. I eat weird L.A. food, so I guess that's probably weird in other people's eyes.

I try to get seven hours of sleep every night; I always walk or bike to work; I make a point to eat well and take my vitamins; I drink tons of water; and I always spend a portion of my day at a standing desk.

I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

I'll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy... I tell whoever's in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they're afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

A simple thing that we do is hot and cold showers for circulation. And using aloe vera on your face, but I guess that's not very Italian because we don't naturally have it, I think.

I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment.

I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.