Stay Off My Operating Table

Stay Off My Operating Table

By Dr. Philip OvadiaMedicineHealth & FitnessNutrition
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  • 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



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    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 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.

    56 min
  • 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: [email protected]
    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



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    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 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.

    1 hr 5 min
  • 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

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    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 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.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 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


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    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 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.

    1 hr 1 min
  • 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 harms
    • why most coronary stents don’t prevent heart attacks or extend life outside acute situations
    • why medicine is not an exact science
    • the "Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Myth"
    • His awakening over vaccine injury risk
    • Censorship in medicine
    • The changing culture of cardiolgy

    Dr. Aseem Malhotra Contact Info:
    BOOK: A Statin Free Life

    FILM: First Do No Pharm

    Social Media 

    • X: @DrAseem
    • Other Platforms: @lifestylemedicine

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    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 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.

    1 hr 3 min
  • 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




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    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 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.

    1 hr 3 min
  • 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

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    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 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.

    55 min
  • 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

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    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 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.

    1 hr 9 min
  • 14 Hormonal Archetypes: A Framework for What Blood Tests Miss - Dr. Jay Wrigley

    Dr. Jay Wrigley, the physician behind Hormone Diet Doc, returns to the podcast after spending nine months building an entirely new framework for hormonal health, drawn from three decades in clinical practice and his own hundred-pound transformation. He rejoins Dr. Philip Ovadia to unpack why the standard thyroid test so often leaves patients with false reassurance, and what actually happens between the thyroid, the liver, and the cell before a hormone can do its job.

    The conversation moves through the hormonal shifts that accompany midlife in both men and women, why testosterone replacement is frequently reached for before the underlying metabolic picture is addressed, and the fourteen clinical patterns Wrigley built to help patients recognize what their bodies are actually signaling. Sleep emerges as a surprisingly central factor tying it all together.

    The two doctors close by discussing where artificial intelligence fits into the future of the doctor-patient relationship, and why clinical experience may remain irreplaceable even as AI tools become part of everyday health decisions.


    BIG IDEA

    A normal thyroid test result does not rule out a thyroid problem, and restoring hormonal balance starts with metabolic health, not with replacing hormones.

    Dr. Jay Wrigley Contact Info

    Health Assessment: https://assessment.drjaywrigley.com/
    Website: https://drjaywrigley.com/

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    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 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.

    50 min
  • An Endocrinologist Got Sick and Her Own Specialty Couldn't Fix Her - Dr. Cassie Smith

    Dr. Cassie Smith spent a decade being failed by her own specialty. As a board-certified endocrinologist, she developed Graves' disease, then Hashimoto's, then infertility, and no colleague could give her an answer. The answer she eventually found wasn't in a prescription pad. It was in her gut.

    In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, Smith explains why millions of people on thyroid medication still feel exhausted, and why the problem often isn't the hormone itself but whether the body can actually use it. She walks through what happens when the gut lining is damaged, how certain bacteria hijack digestion, and how that chain reaction leaves cell receptors locked against the very medicine meant to help. Smith also addresses the scale of the problem: an estimated 50 million Americans may be hypothyroid without knowing it, missed entirely by standard lab testing.

    Now running a cash-based functional medicine practice that treats patients across 46 states, Smith lays out where recovery actually has to begin, and why it rarely starts with a pill.

    BIG IDEA

    Thyroid medication so often fails not because the medicine is wrong, but because chronic gut inflammation locks the cellular doors hormones need to pass through.

    Dr. Cassie Smith Contact Info
    BOOK: Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones (https://amzn.to/4gCc9sV)
    WEBSITE: https://www.modern-endocrine.com/
    INSTAGRAM: @modernendocrine_
    WEBSITE: https://GutHormoneFix.com

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    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 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.

    58 min

About Stay Off My Operating Table

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I was a morbidly obese heart surgeon.


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