The 4 Pillar Plan Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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