For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. — 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
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
Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off… — 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… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Lifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer,… — 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
Concepts such as 'risk factor modification' and 'prevention' are often considered boring and they may not initiate or sustain the levels of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
