You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.
You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.
Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.
Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!
I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I'm a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
My view is that homeopathy is what you can do before you go to a doctor, not instead of going to a doctor, and it's a way of being positive and pro-active about health.
As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying.
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.
I've started to treat my health like a science project.
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
