Stay Off My Operating Table
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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 221
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Dr. Stephen Hussey - Understanding the Heart - #41
When we were young, we learned that the heart pumps blood in the body. Well, Dr. Stephen Hussey thinks we misunderstood the heart. Growing up, he experienced different inflammatory conditions and has…
Cynthia Thurlow - #40
The healthcare system is flawed if it forces you to see more patients for profit than to focus on patients to heal them. Cynthia Thurlow doesn't want any of that anymore. As a nurse practitioner, she…
Metabolic Health OG William Davis, MD - #39
Can you possibly identify if someone's at risk of a heart attack or cardiac arrest? That question run through Dr. William Davis’ mind when his mother died due to cardiac death. He found the helpful p…
Review of the 2022 Metabolic Health Summit - #38
Dr. Ovadia summed up his highlights during the Metabolic Health Summit last May 5-8 in Santa Barabara, CA.
- Testing is crucial. We can now keep track of various aspects of our metabolic health thanks t…
Dr. Brian Lenzkes - My Insurance Company Didn't Want Me to Help Patients Heal #37
After years of treating diabetes, Brian Lenzkes understood that the answer to the disease is not just medication. His experience with fasting and low carb prompted him to focus on nutrition to treat …
Keto Myths Part 2 of 2 - #36
In part 2 of our Keto Q&A, Dr. Ovadia addresses responds to g more questions about ketogenesis and the keto diet.
The 6 Keto Questions addressed in this episode are:
Does keto...
1. cause inflamation?
…
Keto Q&A Part 1 - #35
In this episode, Dr. Ovadia responds to Jack's first 5 questions about ketogenesis and the keto diet. In addition, they do a deep dive into the differences between normal and abnormal cholesterol, an…
Brian Keith - Food, Sleep & Systems - #34
"It's not just what you eat. It's what what you eat eats and where what you eat eats is grown."
The instant I heard that phrase, I knew this was gonna be a dynamite podcast. This episode features Redb…
How Mr. Salozzo Cured His "Incurable" Ulcerative Colitis - #33
He was a 21 year old college athlete. Fit, active, successful. And something was very wrong with his body. The diagnosis was ulcerative colitis, an "incurable" autoimmune disease. After several years…
Harrison Gray (Clemenza) & The Meat Mafia - #32
Dr. Philip Ovadia and Co-Host Jack Heald talk to Harrison Gray about his nutritional awakening, weight loss, and more.
When the lockdowns began, Harrison Gray realized he'd added a bunch of useless fa…
Charles Mayfield - Skin Care & Regenerative Farming - #31
They say necessity is the mother of invention. That day Charles Mayfield got himself a severe sunburn probably didn't feel like the day his life would be revolutionized. But it was. With no skincare…
Texas Slim Part 2 - #30
Texas Slim is the pseudonym of a Texas Man with a vision for restoring the health of the nation. Not just our bodily health, but the health of the soil, the agriculture system, the food distribution …
Texas Slim Part 1 (the interview someone doesn't want you to hear) - #29
During the summer of 2021, "Texas Slim" embedded himself in a harvest crew to get a view from the ground of what is happening with American agriculture. That experience, combined with a lifetime in d…
Bill Vogel - Metabolic Health & Cancer - #28
At a family event in 2011, a photographer asked Bill Vogel - multiple times - to button his suit coat. He couldn't because he'd gained too much weight. Bill says he was "totally embarrassed" in fron…
Chris Cornell: The Biggest Comeback - #27
Chris S. Cornell weighed 278 pounds at age 51, when he realized he had to take action to improve his health.
After reading “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, he started to understand the benefits of a …
Twitter Personality and Health Coach P.D. Mangan - #26
Health & fitness coach P.D. Mangan was a microbiologist, an avid long-distance runner and vegetarian committed to health. Then his health deteriorated and the doctors gave him no hope for improvement…
10 Ways Business Owners Can Improve Employee Health - #25
Healthcare costs are out of control. This episode of SOMOT addresses 10 concrete ways business owners can make a difference in healthcare for themselves and their employees.
Metabolic Health and Addiction - #24
What if the solution to your addiction problems are the food you eat?
Sounds strange, but it could be true.
In this episode, Dr. Ovedia discusses the stories, history and theory surrounding a fairly co…
Year End Review - #23
In the last episode of 2021, we review the highlights from the most popular episodes throughout season 1.
The 7 principles of metabolic health
1. view your health as a system, not a goal
2. eat real, w…
Metabolic Health and COVID - #22
Dr. Ovadia explains the connections between poor metabolic health and poor outcomes from COVID. We discuss the mechanism at work in the bodies of people with poor metabolic health and explain why thi…