Steven Gundry Quotes

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can comprehend all the new things that are thrown at me. It also allows me to sleep well so that I am rested when I need to perform. Finally, being healthy will hopefully allow me to live a long and fun-filled life.

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Health is the first and most important gift of Providence; without it we are poor, miserable creatures, though the whole earth were our property.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.

People assume that they will retire at 60 and die when they are 70. If you can think positive, live a healthy life, listen to your body and follow a regime, then you can live for 100 years, healthy and happy.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain.

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance of keeping people so healthy that at 90 they'll carry on waking up in the same physical state as they were at the age of 30, and their probability of not waking up one morning will be no higher than it was at the age of 30.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.