Whitney Hess

“Immune cells are also sensitive to our emotions. They react positively to emotional states characterized by a sense of well-being and a feeling that we are connected to those around us. It’s as if our immune cells mobilize all the better when they are in the service of a life that is objectively worth living.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Whenever I hear about the woman’s trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin’-says-lovin’-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level,”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

“These recent findings support the notion that “cancer genes” may not be so harmful if not triggered by our unhealthy lifestyle. They behave a little like the irascible ghosts of ancestors, who required regular offerings in order to stay calm. In fact, they may simply be genes who have responded poorly to the transition from our ancestral forms of nutrition, which were perfectly adapted to our organism, to our modern-day industrial, processed diet”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening,”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays