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Stay Off My Operating Table

Dr. Philip Ovadia
Stay Off My Operating Table
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  • Stay Off My Operating Table

    249: You've Seen 10 Doctors and Still Aren't Better. Here's Why - Reed Davis

    12/05/2026 | 43 mins.
    You got the tests. You got the diagnosis — maybe more than one. You took the medication. And you still don't feel like yourself.
    Reed Davis has spent 30 years working with exactly those people. As the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, he's trained over 5,000 practitioners in a methodology built on one counterintuitive premise: chasing a diagnosis may be the wrong move entirely.
    Instead of narrowing in on a label, Reed looks for what he calls metabolic chaos — a constellation of interconnected dysfunction across hormones, immunity, digestion, detoxification, energy production, and the nervous system. The body, he argues, already knows how to heal. The job is to stop obstructing it.
    What that looks like in practice — and the stories of what happens when you get it right — is where this conversation gets interesting.
    BIG IDEA
    You're supposed to live yourself out of the problems you've lived yourself into.
    Reed Davis contact info

    Websites: 
    Functional Diagnostic Nutrition: https://www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com/
    Find Your Metabolic Type: https://mtdiet.com/
    Discount From the Podcast: https://FDNTraining.com/SOMOT26

    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]
    Order at Amazon: 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.
    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:   
    Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
    Books:
    Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon
    Learn More:
    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.
  • Stay Off My Operating Table

    248: The Patient Is the Point: How AI Is Forcing Medicine to Finally Listen - Dr. Ami Bhatt

    05/05/2026 | 58 mins.
    Medicine has always positioned itself as the authority — the place you go when something is wrong, on its terms, in its building, by its schedule. But the infrastructure built to support that model may now be its biggest liability.
    Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer of the American College of Cardiology, has a front-row seat to what's breaking down and what's quietly beginning to work. What she sees isn't a technology problem. It's a relationship problem — between patients and the systems meant to serve them, between clinicians and the tools being handed to them, between the pace of innovation and the inertia of institutions that were never designed to move.
    She's not here to predict the future. She's already living in the parts of it that are functioning. And what she's learned about why good technology fails — and why broken systems persist — applies far beyond cardiology.
    Dr. Ami Bhatt Contact Info
    Website: dramibhatt.com
    Socials: dramibhatt on Linkedin and X
    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]
    Order at Amazon: 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.
    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:   
    Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
    Books:
    Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon
    Learn More:
    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.
  • Stay Off My Operating Table

    247: Darius Sharpe, The ER Nurse Who Ran His Own Blood Sugar Experiments (And Found Heart Disease)

    28/04/2026 | 1h 18 mins.
    Darius Sharpe has spent over two decades watching the same patients cycle through emergency rooms with the same conditions, the same medications, and the same unaddressed root cause. As a paramedic-turned-ER nurse, he started asking a question nobody around him wanted to answer: why are we treating the result instead of the cause?
    What followed was years of self-experimentation — continuous glucose monitors, serial lab draws, coronary imaging — on a man who, by every outward measure, looked like a picture of health. What he found in his own bloodwork challenged assumptions held across every nutritional camp.
    BIG IDEA: As long as diabetes exists, you will have heart disease — no matter how low you drive your LDL.
    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]
    Order at Amazon: 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.
    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:   
    Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
    Books:
    Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon
    Learn More:
    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.
  • Stay Off My Operating Table

    246: The Missing Link Between Menopause, Marriage & Your Microbiome - Cynthia Thurlow

    21/04/2026 | 1h
    Every woman will go through menopause. Every partner, spouse, child, and close friend will feel it too. And almost none of them will understand what is actually happening — or why the standard medical response of "just add hormones" so often falls short.
    Cynthia Thurlow joins Stay Off My Operating Table to explain why so many women hit midlife feeling like their bodies suddenly stopped cooperating, despite doing “all the right things.” 
    This conversation connects gut health to hormones, inflammation, and aging in a way that removes shame, self-blame, and confusion, and replaces it with clarity and relief. 
    BOOK: The Menopause Gut available at all major booksellers. 
    WEBSITE: https://www.cynthiathurlow.com/
    SOCIAL MEDIA: 
    Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/cynthia_thurlow_/?hl=en
    Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/CHTWellness
    Twitter/X : https://x.com/_CynthiaThurlow
    Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/cynthiathurlow
    Podcast
    Substack : https://cynthiathurlownp.substack.com/
    Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): https://www.cdc.gov/aces/about/index.html
    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]
    Order at Amazon: 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.
    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:   
    Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
    Books:
    Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon
    Learn More:
    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.
  • Stay Off My Operating Table

    245: Your Doctor Can't Save You: Dylan Gemelli on Accountability, Arterial Plaque, & the Health System's Blind Spots

    14/04/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Dylan Gemelli went from prison to Milan runways to millions of YouTube subscribers — and then a calcium score of 120 and an LP(a) of 330 stopped him cold at 40 years old. In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, he breaks down what both the biohacking and conventional medical worlds are getting wrong, why confusion is the real enemy of public health, and how he dropped his LP(a) from 330 to 94 without following his doctor's orders. This episode is equal parts cardiovascular science and hard-won life philosophy — and the two turn out to be inseparable.
    BIG IDEA
    If you're not right spiritually, I don't care what anybody says — it's going to be a struggle to fix the other two.
    Dylan Gemelli Contact info:
    Instagram
    Dylan Gemelli Biohacking on YouTube
    The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
    Dylan’s Website
    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]
    Order at Amazon: 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.
    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:   
    Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
    Books:
    Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon
    Learn More:
    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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About 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/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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