No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support.

— Dean Ornish

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

— Dean Ornish

Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.

— Dean Ornish

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.

— Dean Ornish

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly Balkanized world so badly needs it.

— Dean Ornish

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

— Dean Ornish

Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

— Dean Ornish

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

— Dean Ornish

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

— Dean Ornish

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

— Dean Ornish