Rangan Chatterjee > Quotes

“True happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are the same thing’ – Gandhi”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

“We’re all familiar with the idea that lifestyle can be the cause of disease. What’s not common knowledge is that a change in lifestyle can also be the treatment and prevent us from getting sick in the first place.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life

“Every day, for at least fifteen minutes, be selfish, and enjoy some time for you.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“There’s plenty of fantastic evidence that shows we can gain huge benefits from altering the way we view our daily stresses.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

“If you feel disappointed when a post you make doesn’t gain any traction, that’s a form of rejection, and it will impact you on a genetic level.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

“What have you done today to make someone else happy? What has somebody else done today to make you happy? What have you learned? Now”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“Studies suggest that humans spend as much as 40 percent of our speech time informing others about our own subjective experiences. It’s believed that doing this fires up neural pathways associated with reward and activates addiction centers in the brain such as the nucleus accumbens.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“EATING THE RAINBOW When you start eating differently, your microbiome will start changing within two to three days. Getting five different vegetables into your diet every single day will accelerate the process of optimizing your microbiome. To enhance the benefits even further, try to make these vegetables as many different colors as you can. This means it’s much more likely that you will encourage the growth of more beneficial bacteria as well as getting maximum gut-bug diversity. But that’s not the only benefit.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“This probably sounds like an extraordinary claim, but the reason I can make them disappear is that they’re an illusion. These diseases are not the inevitable result of aging. They are not simply our genetic fate or our destiny. We do not have to suffer needlessly.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“A part of the problem is that overconsumption of sugar seems to alter our taste buds. As they become used to it, our bodies crave more and more. One illuminating 2016 study compared two groups of people who, initially, were consuming the same amount of sugar. One group was put on a low-sugar diet whilst the other group continued on their existing one. The group consuming a low-sugar diet rated the same dessert as sweeter than the group who had not reduced their sugar intake. As every month passed, they rated it as more and more sweet. This is further evidence that reducing your intake of sugar changes your sense of taste.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life

“The greatest prison you’ll ever live in is the prison you create inside your mind.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being

“This is why applying cream or moisturizer to the skin can be so soothing.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

“There is a time and a place for medication and surgery, which can be life-saving and life-giving, but when it comes to well-being, maintaining long-term health and quality of life, the best medicine for you is you.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, How to Make Disease Disappear

“The more Micro Stress Doses (MSDs) you take on, the more your rational brain will be deskilled, while your emotional brain will grow ever stronger.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

“If you try to forgive from a place of judgement, you will find it difficult. But coming from a place of compassion and acceptance makes forgiveness come effortlessly. If you choose to believe that everyone is doing the best that they can, given their unique circumstances – their childhood, their parents, their life experiences – and weaknesses, and that we all inevitably get things wrong and make mistakes, you quickly realize there is nothing to actively forgive. You move beyond it. Forgiveness happens naturally.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, Make Change That Lasts (B&W Illustrations): 9 Simple Ways to Break Free from the Habits That Hold You Back

“One of my favourite quotes is by the famous psychotherapist Viktor Frankl. He wrote: ‘When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, Feel Great Lose Weight: Long term, simple habits for lasting and sustainable weight loss

“A friend of mine, Alessandro Ferretti, studies HRV and religiously tracks his rate with medical-grade equipment. When he watched Masterchef Australia, with its genial and encouraging hosts, he found it relaxing and enjoyable and his HRV reflected this. But when he watched Masterchef USA, with Gordon Ramsay effing and blinding, he found it so irritating his HRV went down!”
― Rangan Chatterjee, The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You