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Stay Off My Operating Table

Stay Off My Operating Table

By: Dr. Philip Ovadia
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I was a morbidly obese heart surgeon.


All through high school, college, med school and surgical training, I followed the U.S. dietary guidelines for both diet and exercise. Yet nothing I did kept the weight off.


I just kept getting fatter and fatter.

Each day in surgery, I would split open the chests of people just like me. I knew I was heading for the operating table myself if I didn't find solutions that worked.

In 2016, I finally found a way to lose 100 pounds and keep it off.

Now - in addition to doing heart surgery - I work to help people just like me get healthy, lose the weight and keep it off.


I'm Dr. Philip Ovadia, the rebel M.D. and cardiac surgeon who is working to keep people off my operating table.


http://ovadiahearthealth.com/whitepaper/

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  • 251: Stem Cells, Peptides, and the Real Reason You're Getting Old - Dr. Adeel Khan
    May 26 2026

    Your body already knows how to heal itself. The question is whether anyone is giving it the right signals.

    Dr. Adeel Khan trained as a conventional physician before following a thread most doctors ignore: what if we could restore the system, not just manage the symptoms? That thread led him through sports medicine, global laboratories, stem cell research, and a fundamental rethinking of what aging actually is at the cellular level.

    In this conversation, Dr. Khan explains why most clinics calling themselves "stem cell" providers aren't offering what they claim, what MUSE cells actually do differently, why the US regulatory environment has kept these therapies out of reach — and what's quietly changing. He also pulls back the curtain on peptides, mitochondrial repair, and the emerging field of proteomics that may finally give us real data on how well these interventions work.

    The future of medicine may not look like treatment at all. It may look like restoration.


    BIG IDEA

    If the system we built worked so well, we wouldn't have the problems that we do.

    Contact: Dr. Adeel Khan
    Social Media: @drakhan
    Website: eterna.health




    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

    This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

    If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

    • Learn how to reset your gut
    • Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
    • Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

    Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

    Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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    52 mins
  • 250: Seven Years, 700 Cholesterol, Zero Plaque: What Dr. Nick Norwitz's Case Report Changes
    May 19 2026

    Nick Norwitz has an MD, a PhD, and a cholesterol level that should have killed him — at least according to the standard model of cardiovascular disease. For seven years, his total cholesterol held above 700. His LDL sat in the high 500s. Every clinical algorithm flagged him as a cardiac emergency. He took none of the prescribed medications.

    His just-published case report shows zero coronary plaque. Not reduced. Not minimal. Zero.

    This episode isn't a victory lap. It's a serious conversation about what that result means — for how medicine measures risk, how it handles outliers, and why the incentive structures that shape clinical decisions may be more dangerous than any single cholesterol number. Dr. Philip Ovadia and Nick Norwitz also go deep on a fraudulent case report published in Circulation, why statins suppress GLP-1 levels and almost no cardiologist knows it, and what happens when the patient who refuses to follow the algorithm turns out to be right.

    #metabolichealth #cholesterol #ketodiet #heartdisease #LDLcholesterol #evidencebasedmedicine #lowcarb #preventivecardiology


    BIG IDEA

    A patient with seven years of astronomically high cholesterol and zero coronary plaque is not an outlier to dismiss — he is a question medicine is obligated to answer.

    Nick Norwitz Contact Info

    Newsletter: staycuriousmetabolism.com (Top 2 Best-Selling in Science, Globally)
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nicknorwitzMDPhD (>1M Subscribers)
    Twitter: https://x.com/nicknorwitz
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicknorwitz/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknorwitz/
    Threads: https://www.threads.net/@nicknorwitz
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicknorwitz

    Nick's Case Report:
    Seven Years of 700 Cholesterol Without Coronary
    Atherosclerosis: A Lean Mass Hyper-Responder Case Report

    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

    This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

    If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

    • Learn how to reset your gut
    • Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
    • Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

    Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

    Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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    57 mins
  • 249: You've Seen 10 Doctors and Still Aren't Better. Here's Why - Reed Davis
    May 12 2026

    You got the tests. You got the diagnosis — maybe more than one. You took the medication. And you still don't feel like yourself.

    Reed Davis has spent 30 years working with exactly those people. As the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, he's trained over 5,000 practitioners in a methodology built on one counterintuitive premise: chasing a diagnosis may be the wrong move entirely.

    Instead of narrowing in on a label, Reed looks for what he calls metabolic chaos — a constellation of interconnected dysfunction across hormones, immunity, digestion, detoxification, energy production, and the nervous system. The body, he argues, already knows how to heal. The job is to stop obstructing it.

    What that looks like in practice — and the stories of what happens when you get it right — is where this conversation gets interesting.

    BIG IDEA

    You're supposed to live yourself out of the problems you've lived yourself into.

    Reed Davis contact info

    Websites:
    Functional Diagnostic Nutrition: https://www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com/
    Find Your Metabolic Type: https://mtdiet.com/
    Discount From the Podcast: https://FDNTraining.com/SOMOT26


    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

    This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

    If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

    • Learn how to reset your gut
    • Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
    • Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

    Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

    Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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    55 mins
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