In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

One way to fuel the brain to make more decisions is to feed it carbs. So as the day goes on, you start to crave more carbs - especially women, because women tend to make more of the day-to-day decisions in our lives than men.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.