Stay Off My Operating Table

Jack Heald opens this episode admitting that a year ago, peptides would have sounded like voodoo to him. Then Dr. Philip Ovadia wrote him a prescription.
Dr. Melissa Petersen has spent three decades in integrative health. She holds a doctorate in chiropractic and natural medicine, is board certified in holistic health, and wrote the book Codes of Longevity. Through Peptide University and the Human Longevity Institute, she trains clinicians to see the body as a signaling system rather than a set of silos. Her starting point is a question most physicians were never asked in medical school: are you satisfied managing a problem you might be able to correct?
The conversation moves from the cell to the pharmacy counter. Petersen explains what a peptide actually is, which one reached patients more than a century ago, and how patents, compounding rules, and a booming gray market decide who gets access today. Dr. Ovadia raises an uncomfortable irony about quality documentation that cuts against the usual narrative. Petersen also makes a pointed case about how GLP-1 medications are being dosed.
This is part one. Jack's own story is saved for part two.
BIG IDEA
Every peptide is a message the body already knows how to read, so the real question isn't whether these molecules are legitimate, but why a medical system built on managing symptoms never learned the language
Dr. Melissa Petersen Contact Info
Website: https://mypeptideuniversity.com/
Website: https://humanlongevityglobal.com/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@DrMelissaGrillPetersen
Website: https://docmelissa.com/
Book: “Codes of Longevity” https://amzn.to/4zVFCoK

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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.

For years, nurse practitioner Dr. Efrat LaMandre ("Dr. E") told patients with normal labs that nothing was wrong with them. She now calls that habit unintentional gaslighting, and calls herself a recovering medical gaslighter.
Her new book, The Problem with Good Patients, turns attention to the other side of the exam table: the pre-emptive apologies, the deference, the quiet decision to trust a lab value over what the body is saying. She traces that pattern back to the sticker and lollipop at the pediatrician's office.
Then, after finishing the book, she spent six months talking herself out of an MRI for back pain she didn't want to bother her colleagues about.
Dr. E joins Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to talk about the skills capable adults abandon at the clinic door, why one doctor was never meant to be a whole team, how to tell a credible integrative practitioner from a sales pitch, and the one sentence every patient should learn to translate.
Find Dr. E's podcast and the book, available for presale, at medicaldisruptor.com.
BIG IDEA
When you hear "There's nothing wrong with you," you need to hear "I ran out of tools," and then find somebody with a different toolbox.
Contact Info: Dr. Efrat LaMandre
• Website: https://MedicalDisruptor.com
• The Medical Disrupter Podcast: https://www.drefratlamandre.com/e-podcasts

Prior Appearance on "Stay Off My Operating Table"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/11967469

Books: 
"It's Not In Your Head" - https://amzn.to/4qQpQaL
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
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.

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

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
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.

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: info@tendtheterrain.com
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

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
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.

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
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
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.