Christian de Duve Quotes

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I just get sick very easily.

I never get sick normally, but having strep throat three times in four months - that's pretty crazy.

When we prescribe antibiotics for a strep throat, it's not even for the strep throat. It's for the complications of the strep throat.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

There are some sick people in this world.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

Antioxidants are completely useless.

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.