Stay Off My Operating Table

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/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. bumper-verify-2663bea2

  1. 6d ago

    272: The Menopause Symptom Doctors Miss — And Why It Predicts Heart Disease - Zora Benhamou

    A woman in her 60s tells gerontologist Zora Benhamou she "never went through menopause." She hasn't had a period in years. Benhamou has heard this story hundreds of times, and she says it's the most dangerous one a woman can believe about her own body. In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, Benhamou — founder of Hack My Age and a specialist in aging and longevity — walks through why symptoms like frozen shoulder, unexplained joint pain, and sudden personality shifts are frequently hormonal, why perimenopause can start in a woman's mid-30s, and why the women who feel nothing at all may be the ones most at risk. She and Dr. Ovadia trace the line from menopause to the cardiovascular disease that later lands patients on his operating table, and explain why the transition isn't the cause of that disease — it's the moment underlying risk finally surfaces. The conversation covers hormone therapy myths, the "window of opportunity" research, bone density and fall risk, gut health, and what an intentional approach to this decade actually requires. For anyone living with a woman going through this transition, or approaching it themselves, this episode reframes what menopause is actually signaling. BIG IDEA Menopause symptoms are not the problem to survive — they are an early warning system for the diseases that will define the next thirty years, and the women who feel nothing may be the least protected of all. Zora Benhamou - Contact Info Website: https://hackmyage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HackMyAge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/HackMyAge YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlr1hHGF2D1U54tZ4Zk9SA X: https://x.com/hackmyage 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  2. Oct 13

    271: She had 3 Months to Live - Thirty Five Years Ago - Dr. Nasha Winters

    In 1991, a 19-year-old pre-med student was diagnosed with end-stage ovarian cancer and told nothing could be done. She is still alive. Dr. Nasha Winters joins Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to trace the strange, unscripted path that got her there, and the decades of research since that convinced her modern oncology is aiming at the wrong target entirely. Winters, now a naturopathic oncologist who has trained clinicians in 46 countries, argues that cancer and heart disease are not the separate diseases we treat them as, and that both persist because medicine keeps chasing a single mutation or a single marker while ignoring the environment those cells live in. She walks through what happens when a patient's terrain, not just their tumor, becomes the focus, using a recent case involving her own mother's stroke and another involving a woman whose pancreatic cancer went undiagnosed for years despite warning signs sitting in her chart. This conversation covers the biology of stress and immune function, the limits of standard-of-care protocols, and what questions patients should be asking before they accept a diagnosis at face value. BIG IDEA Cancer and heart disease are not separate battles but the same underlying failure of terrain, and medicine keeps losing ground by treating the tumor instead of the environment that made it possible. Contact Info Dr. Nasha Winters, Naturopathic Oncologist email: info@tendtheterrain.com Website: drnasha.com Book: A Metabolic Approach to Cancer: https://amzn.to/4wJOdct Paper: Modulation of Cytokine Expression by Traditional Medicines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16813462/ Direct-to-Consumer Labs Discount through the lab site: "Toolshed" DHA Laboratories Dr. Mina Bissell: The Extra Cellular Matrix https://www.ted.com/talks/mina_bissell_experiments_that_point_to_a_new_understanding_of_cancer Dr. Robert Ader: Psycho Neuro Immunology https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60134-2/fulltext Dr. Candace Pert: Molecules of Emotion https://amzn.to/4wIELWt Dr. Bruce Lipton: https://amzn.to/4fXAfMI 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  3. Oct 6

    270: Dr. Ken Berry Revolutionizes Diabetes Care, Challenge Traditional Associations

    Dr. Ken Berry argues humans have a species-specific “proper human diet” and that low-carb/keto approaches can prevent and reverse diabetes, yet major institutions resist due to incentives and enforcement pressures. He founded the nonprofit American Diabetes Society and built “Dr. Berry AI” to spread practical guidance and advocacy. 01:49 Dr. Berry's Background 07:35 The American Diabetes Society 22:24 The Future of AI in Medicine 28:39 Dr. Berry AI 29:27 The Vitamin A Test 40:28 Medical Board Experience 54:54 Wrap-Up & Resources 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  4. Sep 29

    269: A Doctor Says Medicine Is Built to Manage Sickness, Not Cure It - Dr. Sean O'Mara

    Dr. Sean O'Mara scans hearts for a living, but not the way most cardiologists do. He measures the ring of fat wrapped around the heart muscle itself, a structure most physicians were never trained to look for and few insurance codes account for. In this conversation, O'Mara walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through a case that reframes what fasting, the microbiome, and the body's own signaling chemistry can accomplish in a matter of days, not months. He explains why the fat around the heart shares blood vessels with the coronary arteries themselves, why atrial fibrillation may trace back to it, and why the peptide his body makes naturally works on a completely different timescale than the synthetic version sold in a pen. The conversation moves from operating rooms to boardrooms to a proposal for paying physicians based on outcomes instead of prescriptions, with O'Mara's own client list, now including senior politicians, as evidence the model already works. What emerges is a case for measuring the right things in the human body, and a warning about what happens when medicine measures the wrong ones instead. BIG IDEA Dr. Sean O'Mara argues that the inflammatory fat surrounding the heart is a measurable, reversible form of structural disease, and that realigning medicine's incentives around eliminating it, rather than managing its symptoms, could transform both individual health and the healthcare system itself. Dr. Sean O’Mara Contact Information Website  : https://drseanomara.com/ Twitter/X: DrSeanOMaraInstagram: drseanomara Facebook : drseanomara LinkedIn : Sean O'mara 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  5. Sep 22

    268 - Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Statins, Stents, COVID Risks and Joining iFix Hearts

    Dr. Aseem Malhotra relates his path from mainstream interventional cardiology to challenging the mainstream's cholesterol hypothesis. Malhotra explains: why biased research funding misleads doctors and patients about statin benefits and harmswhy most coronary stents don’t prevent heart attacks or extend life outside acute situationswhy medicine is not an exact sciencethe "Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Myth"His awakening over vaccine injury riskCensorship in medicineThe changing culture of cardiolgyDr. Aseem Malhotra Contact Info: BOOK: A Statin Free Life FILM: First Do No Pharm Social Media  X: @DrAseemOther Platforms: @lifestylemedicineSend 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  6. Sep 15

    267: Stephen Hussey Survived a Heart Attack and Wants Answers to Questions the Hospital Evaded

    A 34-year-old functional medicine practitioner had every marker doctors look for: a zero calcium score, clean metabolic labs, a lean and active build. Six months later he had a widowmaker heart attack with a total blockage and no plaque anywhere else in his arteries. In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Hussey walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through what happened after the stent, the questions the hospital would not answer, and the research he pursued once he left. That research led him toward mechanisms of clotting and arterial injury rarely discussed in a cardiology office, and toward a recovery protocol built around light, circadian rhythm, and the biophysics of blood flow rather than the standard prescription pad. He also describes tracking a second, unrelated vascular event in his leg through ultrasound imaging over eighteen months, watching it resolve without intervention. Hussey lays out the environmental signals he believes drive arterial healing, and why he thinks the conventional model of heart disease treats a downstream symptom while missing where the damage actually begins. For anyone who has been told their labs look fine and still worries about their heart, this is a different way of asking why. BIG IDEA A heart attack survivor with textbook-perfect metabolic markers set out to find the mechanism his cardiologists never asked about, and it changed how he thinks the body protects and heals its arteries. Dr. Stephen Hussey - Contact Info Prior Appearance on “Stay Off My Operating Table” appearance: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/10708494 Webpage: https://resourceyourhealth.com/ X: https://x.com/DrStephenHussey Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrStephenHussey/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstephenhussey/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEHJGZ17zRDZ9rn7yYrC-bQ 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  7. Sep 8

    266: Dr. Eric Berg - The 9 Environments Making You Sick

    Most chronic physical and mental health problems trace back to "ancestral mismatch" — the gap between the ancient environment our biology was shaped by and the modern, overly convenient one we now live in. Dr. Berg's book breaks this mismatch into nine trackable "environments" (food, social, light, work, cognitive, etc.) and argues that fixing willpower isn't the answer — redesigning your surroundings is. NOTABLE QUOTE "Change your environment one time and make it easy for you to succeed." — Dr. Eric Berg CONTACT INFO: Dr. Eric Berg Contact Info Bio: With over 47,000,000 followers worldwide, Dr. Eric Berg DC spreads the truth about getting healthy and losing weight. Dr. Berg DC, age 61, (as of Sept 2026), specializes in Healthy Keto® and Intermittent Fasting.  He is the director of Dr. Berg's Nutritionals and a best-selling Amazon author. His new book, "Change Your Environments", is available now. https://amzn.to/4xzycpX Website: https://www.drberg.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3w193M5tYPJqF0Hi-7U-2g X: https://x.com/dr_ericberg 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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.

  8. Sep 1

    265: He Developed Diabetes Running 50 Miles a Week - Dr. Tim Noakes

    For decades, Professor Tim Noakes told the world that carbohydrate-loaded muscles were the secret to endurance performance. He built a career on it, wrote a bestselling running manual around it, and trained a generation of athletes to believe it. Then, standing at a podium, he tore the nutrition chapter out of his own book. In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, the South African physiologist traces a personal reckoning that began with an unlikely diagnosis: type 2 diabetes, arrived at while running fifty miles a week and staying lean. He walks through the science that forced him to abandon three decades of orthodoxy, the university battle and courtroom fight that followed his public reversal, and a model of carbohydrate metabolism built on two very different pools of glucose, one that barely matters and one that determines whether an athlete falters. The conversation moves from Cape Town laboratories to Mongolia to a South African courtroom, and lands on a mechanism connecting muscle glycogen, insulin, and the ability to burn fat that most people, including many physicians, were never taught. BIG IDEA How much glycogen sits in the muscles determines whether insulin stays elevated and the body keeps burning carbohydrate instead of fat, a discovery that overturned decades of sports nutrition dogma and reframed muscle glycogen not as a performance reserve but as a dumping ground for excess blood glucose. Professor Tim Noakes Contact Info Website: https://TheNoakesFoundation.org Book: The Lore of Running (Complete Update Coming) https://amzn.to/3RUTRsV Interview with Dr. Eric Westman: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/14766410 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 WEBSITE: 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 gutEliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progressUnlock real energy, metabolism, and longevityDon’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 HealthTheme 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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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/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. bumper-verify-2663bea2

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  • Creator
    Dr. Philip Ovadia
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    286
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Stay Off My Operating Table
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    Stay Off My Operating Table

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