Quotes About Ornish

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

Dr. Ornish "realized reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

concern that boosting telomerase activity could theoretically increase cancer risk, since tumors have been known to hijack the telomerase enzyme and use it to ensure their own immortality.75 But as we'll see in chapter 13, Dr. Ornish and his colleagues have used the same diet and lifestyle changes to halt and apparently reverse the progression of cancer in certain circumstances. We will also see how the same diet can reverse heart disease too.