Outlive: Quotes

"This ethos is ingrained in anyone who goes into medicine: nobody dies on my watch. We approached our cancer patients in the same way. But very often it was clear that we were coming in too late, when the disease had already progressed to the point where death was almost inevitable."

Section: 1, Chapter: 1

"The fundamental problem, I believe, is classic Medicine 2.0: guidelines for managing cardiovascular risk are based on an overly short time horizon, compared to the time line of the disease. We need to begin treating it, and preventing it, much earlier."

Section: 2, Chapter: 7

"What we need is the nutritional equivalent of the flux capacitor from Back to the Future, to transport us back to a time and place where food was simpler, and quite frankly, our ancestors were healthier. Instead, we're like a frog in a slowly boiling pot of increasingly toxic food choices."

Section: 3, Chapter: 14

"I once believed that diet and nutrition could cure almost all ills, but I no longer feel that strongly about it. Nutritional biochemistry is an important component of our tactics, but it is not the only path to longevity, or even the most powerful one."

Section: 3, Chapter: 15

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

Section: 3, Chapter: 17