Joel Fuhrman Quotes

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

We are sick because our cells are sick.

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I get a blood test every six months to narrow down what could be causing fatigue, exhaustion, dark thoughts, and obviously, eventually, how to be in my top shape. Blood doesn't lie. From vitamins that I'm lacking to natural foods, it's an educated guide to connect my physical internal and external look.

I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.

Resveratrol does not act primarily as an antioxidant. It is far more interesting and powerful than that. Resveratrol turns on our body's genetic defenses against diseases and aging itself.

We used to think that aging was a lot like, as if we were cars made fresh and youthful and then we've entered this breakdown in diet. What we didn't realize until recently is that we're much more complex than a car. We fix ourselves if we're broken.

Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It's not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it's the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.

People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?