Quotes About Health

autoimmune diseases are one third genetic and two thirds environmental

You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.

My experience of being ill led me to see that our bodies may feel autonomous, but we all live in the nexus of radical interconnection. Our bodies are always in communication with other bodies: our immune system is responsive not only to collective health policies but also to the emotions and affects of others.

Furthermore, in some people the bacterial infection went on to cause stomach cancer—

But medicine has not simply neglected to research women's health; it has also failed to treat women who are sick. One study found that women in various ERs were 13 to 25 percent less likely to receive opioid painkillers (the strongest painkiller medicine has) than men were.

So challenging was living with an unidentified illness that she welcomed the terrible news with what sounds like excitement.

I can say is that it was a bone-deep, a cell-deep conviction: that whatever was wrong was not in my head. The symptoms—roving neurological pain, headaches, flu-like aches, sensitivity to food—were too specific. And my lab work had so many small clues. Low vitamin D. Anemia. The many viruses.

our culture tends to psychologize diseases it doesn't yet understand

care effect,' " Nathanael Johnson wrote in Wired in 2013, "the idea that the opportunity for patients to feel heard and cared for can improve their health.

While conservatives like to put the focus for health on individual responsibility and "lifestyle," a term they use as a weapon, Geronimus's research reminds us of the social, interconnected nature of our bodies and our health, and the way that racism exacts debilitating vigilance from Black bodies.

But as more and more "small things" went wrong—endometriosis, hives, the labral tear in my hip, the arthritis in my neck, the thyroid disease, the failure to get pregnant, the fatigue and brain fog—I had started to see my body differently, not as a collection of parts but as an entangled system.

If medicine can't see or name the problem, it can neither study it nor treat it.

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!

Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.