Gut Health Quotes Through the Ages

• "Gut Health is Whole Health." — Dr. Fawad Ahmed
• "We inherit not only genes from our parents, but environment, eating habits…and the microbiome." — Dr. Fawad Ahmed
• "The road to better health starts in the kitchen, not the pharmacy." — Dr. Fawad Ahmed
• "Diabetes Type 2 is a foodborne illness." — Dr. Fawad Ahmed
• "All disease begins in the gut." — Hippocrates (460–370 BC)
• "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates
• "To eat is human, to digest, divine." — Mark Twain
• "The stomach is the father of affliction and the mother of disease." — Arabic Proverb
• "Illness begins with the mouth and disaster with the tongue." — Chinese Proverb
• "The belly rules the mind." — Spanish Proverb
• "A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine." — Henry David Thoreau
• "When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need." — Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb
• "The stomach is the monarch of the body." — Charaka Samhita, ~100 BCE
• "Without proper diet, medicine is of no use. With proper diet, medicine is of no need." — Sun Simiao (581–682 AD)
• "A bad digestion is the root of all evil." — Queen Elizabeth I
• "I can resist everything except indigestion." — Oscar Wilde
• "I am a miserable sinner… plagued by my bowels more than my sins." — Martin Luther
• "The digestion of the mind depends on the digestion of the body." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• "The human body is like a furnace; digestion is the fire." — Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
• "The root of all health is in the brain, the stomach and the feet." — Ancient Chinese Proverb
• "It is not hunger that compels me to eat, but the condition of my digestion." — Voltaire
• "Health resides in the gut; the intestines decide the fate of the body." — Galen (129–216 AD)

For more on this topic from independent sources:

1. U.S. National Library of Medicine. “Greek Medicine.” https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/topics/greek-medicine/index.html
2. U.S. National Library of Medicine. “Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.” https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/welcome.html