Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The biological mechanisms that control our health and well-being are much more dynamic - for better and for worse - than most… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure. — Dean Ornish Copy Share
No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for. — Dean Ornish Copy Share
