Stay Off My Operating Table

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
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Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings
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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.

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/

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. 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

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.

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.