David Agus Quotations

When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease,

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.