It's okay if you don't eat breakfast. It's okay if you're not eating every two hours ... The more frequently you eat, the more insulin you secrete, and the more insulin you secrete, the more likely you are to pack on weight.

It's always something I'm tweeting about—how disconnected people are, and how do we get more connected? Get off electronics and get some sunshine. It seems kind of trite, but it's so true. Get back to basics, stop eating so much processed food, and do things that are better for your body and your mind ... Our brains are all going to turn to Swiss cheese because people are connected to their iPads and watching Netflix on repeat 24/7.

The funny thing with entrepreneurship and business is, even from the perspective of making money or doing well for yourself, you do that by providing value to other people in various ways, whether that's through making a podcast people want to listen to, or writing a book people wish to read, giving a talk that people want to listen to, teaching people something that helps them... All of these are things people will pay money for—things that provide them with value.

To me, social media is a tool ... I think most people use it to their detriment if I'm being totally honest. I think, for most people, it's a net negative. I think if you harness it well and you use it well, then it's incredible.

Being aware of one's own mortality—whatever causes that—there's not really any bigger motivator than that.

When it comes to the Internet and social media in particular... over the past 13 years, we've basically been in one of the biggest human experiments that's never been done before.

If we're on synthetic oral contraceptives for 10, 15, 20 years, we're keeping our bodies in a very low estrogen state with these synthetic hormones. We're missing out on peak bone mass, peak muscle mass years. ... I'm seeing women that are osteopenic before they even go into menopause.

Things like adverse childhood events... People that have high scores as a child are at greater risk for autoimmune conditions, they're at a greater risk for weight loss resistance, they're at a a greater risk for persistent behaviors. And it could show up as alcohol addiction...

People don't need to work anywhere near as much as people had to work in the past, yet it seems like every year people think they're getting busier and busier.

When we're looking at prevention and we're looking at overall health and wellness, the food that we have on our fork is far more important and impactful than we have given it the credit for previously.

I think about the PCOS patients, so polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is actually the most common endocrine disorder here in the United States ... It's more often than not a degree of insulin resistance and inflammation at the basis. Also, oxidative stress.

About 25% of women with PCOS are thin phenotype, which means thin women can also have PCOS. You don't necessarily have to be obese, and this is why it's so under-diagnosed.

I do think in the modern Western world, a lot of the problems that we have are now problems of abundance rather than problems of lack.

In our kind of westernized societies, we think of food as comfort and not as fuel.

It's not at all uncommon to see women in their early 40s... They may not be ovulating every month; they may ovulate twice in a month. What I always say about perimenopause is that it's predictably unpredictable.

We have to help educate women that irrespective of where you are in that perimenopausal journey, you may still be able to conceive a child.

Here's a tip: Most surgeons have no interest in coming in to see their patients multiple times a day. If you see your surgeon multiple times a day as a patient, you're pretty sick.

The more people you can help, then the more it also helps you.