Stay Off My Operating Table

Stay Off My Operating Table

By Dr. Philip OvadiaMedicineHealth & FitnessNutrition
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  • 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
  • The Conference Founder Who Thinks Data Isn't the Answer to Wellness - Robin Switzer

    Robin Switzer has spent nearly a decade building one of the largest gatherings in metabolic health, watching thousands of people arrive chasing the same thing: a way to feel better. But somewhere between the Oura Rings, the continuous glucose monitors, and the endless lists of things to optimize, something shifted. Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald sit down with Switzer to talk about that shift, and why the community she built around the ketogenic diet has quietly become something much bigger. They cover what changed after a new administration took aim at food policy, why a DNA test she never expected to believe in turned out to be right, and why the physical experience of being in a room with people pursuing the same goal does something no podcast or YouTube video can replicate. The conversation turns to the people bringing new ideas to this year's event, from visceral fat specialists to electromagnetic frequency experts, and what all of it says about where the wellness movement is actually headed.


    BIG IDEA

    The most reliable path back to health may not be more tracking, more data, or more devices, but the momentum that comes from being physically surrounded by people committed to the same goal.

    Robin Switzer Contact Info
    website: hackyourhealth.com
    Discount Code “iFixHearts”

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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.

    44 min
  • Beyond Blood Sugar: Why Insulin Matters More Than We've Been Told - Dr. Ian Lake

    Most conversations about diabetes focus on controlling blood sugar. Dr. Ian Lake spent 20 years following this playbook—counting carbohydrates, injecting insulin, managing his type 1 diagnosis according to conventional medical guidance. Then a serious hypoglycemic episode and early signs of retinopathy forced him to reconsider everything.

    What he discovered became the foundation of his practice and his new book Shifting Gears: insulin itself may be more important than the glucose it controls. By reframing type 1 diabetes as a metabolic optimization problem rather than a glucose-management puzzle, Lake unlocked something most people with the condition never experience—stability without constant mental and physical strain.

    But here's what makes this conversation essential for everyone: type 1 diabetes isn't just a disease. It's a window into how your body actually works. Understanding insulin's role as a master metabolic regulator reveals patterns that affect weight, mental health, inflammation, and longevity in all of us. Lake has run 100 miles fasted. He's cycled 1,000 miles while managing type 1. His approach challenges core assumptions about fuel, performance, and what our bodies actually need.

    BIG IDEA

    Insulin management—not glucose control—is the key to metabolic flexibility and long-term health, whether you inject insulin or not.

    Contact Info: 
    Book: Shifting Gears by Ian Lake on Amazon
    Website: Type1Keto.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 [email protected]

    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.

    53 min
  • How One Young Man Beat a Connective Tissue Disorder Everyone Said Was Permanent - Edward Goeke

    A genetic connective tissue disorder deemed incurable by medicine improved dramatically through carnivore nutrition and structural medicine that conventional practice overlooks.


    DESCRIPTION

    At 16, Edward Goeke developed debilitating symptoms that left him bedridden: crippling pain whenever he felt emotion, constant tachycardia, and progressive deterioration. For two years, doctors dismissed him. Medications failed. Plant-based eating worsened his condition. By 18, he was losing vision and preparing to die.

    Then came diagnosis: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic connective tissue disorder affecting his ligaments throughout his body. Told it was permanent. Told he'd never fully recover.

    But something shifted when he eliminated plant foods entirely and adopted a carnivore diet. Combined with targeted structural therapies—PRP prolotherapy and deep tissue tendon needling—his symptoms stabilized, then reversed. Now 22, he walks, trains, and functions normally. More provocatively, he's built a research-backed argument that "genetic" and "incurable" aren't the same thing, and that nutritional intervention can fundamentally alter gene expression.

    Edward's now creating content to challenge mainstream health dogma, particularly for younger audiences conditioned to accept conventional medicine's failures as inevitable.

    Edward Goeke: Contraindicated
    YouTube: Edward A. Goeke
    [email protected]
    Instagram: e.goeke_









    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 [email protected]

    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

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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…

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