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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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Episodes
  • 242: Your Brain Is Starving: The Metabolic Root of Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Fatigue - Moira Newiss
    Mar 24 2026

    Moira Newiss spent 20 years running hospitals for the UK's National Health Service before her body and mind staged a slow, invisible collapse that no blood panel could explain — and the system she'd devoted her career to had nothing to offer but a prescription she didn't want to fill. What she found instead was a framework rooted in mitochondrial biology that reframes mental illness, chronic fatigue, and burnout as problems of cellular energy rather than brain chemistry.


    BIG IDEA

    "Psychological stress adversely affects the mitochondria just like high-sugar diets do — and a ketogenic diet can correct things that psychological interventions alone sometimes cannot."

    Moira Newiss Contact Info
    Website: moiranewiss.co.uk
    LinkedIn: Moira Newiss
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@moiranewiss
    Change.Org : Overhaul the UK dietary Guidelines


    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

    Pre-Order Stay Off My Kitchen Table at Amazon.

    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.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Learn more:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    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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    54 mins
  • 241: This Contortionist Found the Link Between How You Breathe and Why You're Stuck - Kemi Blake
    Mar 17 2026

    Kemi Blake started training contortion as an adult with a body that wasn't built for it — no childhood conditioning, no natural flexibility, just a fierce refusal to quit and an unusual willingness to pay close attention to what her body was doing in the moments before she lost consciousness. What she found wasn't a performance hack. It was a map of the nervous system, the body's hidden pressure architecture, and the emotional terrain that most of us spend our lives navigating blind.

    BIG IDEA

    The nervous system doesn't distinguish between emotional pain and physical pain — and that single fact changes everything about how you heal.

    Kemi Blake contact info
    Website: https://bodikemistri.com

    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

    Pre-Order Stay Off My Kitchen Table at Amazon.

    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.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Learn more:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    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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    58 mins
  • 240: Oxalates: The Hidden Toxin in Your "Superfood" Diet — With Sally K. Norton
    Mar 10 2026

    Sally K. Norton, a Cornell-trained nutritionist with a master's in public health, spent decades sick while eating all the "right" foods before connecting her arthritis, chronic fatigue, sleep dysfunction, and other symptoms to oxalate accumulation. Her research — drawing on tens of thousands of peer-reviewed articles — reveals that medical and nutritional institutions have long known oxalates cause problems, but the information never connected across disciplines, was never prioritized, and got buried under decades of commercial food messaging and dietary dogma. Critically, simply eliminating high-oxalate foods overnight can trigger a difficult detox response as stored crystals release from tissues, so gradual dietary change is recommended. Her book, Toxic Superfoods, and her website sallyknorton.com offer practical guidance for anyone ready to investigate further.

    Sally K. Norton contact info
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    Website: SallyKNorton.com
    Book: Toxic Superfoods

    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

    Pre-Order Stay Off My Kitchen Table at Amazon.

    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.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Learn more:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    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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    1 hr and 1 min
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book as Dr. Ovadia tackles the plus and minus of the major diets available to help people make their best decision. The opening of the book was very powerful. He lays out how to take control of your health to live a better life. Highly recommend this for the family.

Great introduction into becoming healthy

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I looked forward to listening those podcasts, cause of the content. Content great. Book is clear. But these podcasts, oh my.. Next to proper facts about sugar, obesity and metabolic health, they also didn't teach eloquence in med school. An average of 4 'you knows' (not exaggerating) per sentence made me ditching the podcasts after one and a half episode , and grabbing the book.

Content great, Performance horrible 'youknow'

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not much info here. eat whole foods. don't eat processed food. exercise. sleep. don't stress. all provides at excruciatingly slow pace. if you are a total newbie its fine. probably get all this in less time glancing at a website

2x the speed. not much meat

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Pretty good and very knowledgeable advice. Excellent podcast. Eat healthy = IMPROVE LIFE. QUALITY.

This Doctor tells it like it is

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