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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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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

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WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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 https://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 https://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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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

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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 https://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 https://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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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 https://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 https://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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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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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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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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 https://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 https://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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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 https://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 https://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

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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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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.

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• 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

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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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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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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

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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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
edgoeke@pm.me
Instagram: e.goeke_

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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Your body cannot release stored fat or heal itself when it perceives threat; gratitude is the measurable physiological switch that lowers cortisol, raises oxytocin, and allows metabolic transformation.

DESCRIPTION

Ben Azadi lost 80 pounds and reversed suicidal depression through metabolic healing. His father wasn't as fortunate—a preventable decline into type 2 diabetes, neuropathy, and stroke in 2014. That loss forged his purpose: reach one billion people and reverse type 2 diabetes in a million within a decade.

But Azadi's message diverges sharply from the biohacking mainstream. While cold plunges and red light have their place, they're secondary. The foundation is unglamorous: gratitude, sunlight, grounding—all free, all measurable in blood work and heart rate variability.

The science is stark: stress elevates cortisol; cortisol packs visceral fat around your organs. Gratitude does the inverse. Peer-reviewed research shows intentional gratitude practices reduce all-cause mortality by 9 percent and cardiovascular death by 15 percent.

KetoFlex Revised, his new book, merges this psychological work with metabolic flexibility—teaching your body to burn fat instead of remaining locked into sugar dependence. His thesis: most people major in the minors, chasing complexity while overlooking what actually works.

Ben Azadi Contact Info:
https://KetoFlexBook.com

Social Media Links
Instagram: instagram.com/thebenazadi
Facebook: facebook.com/thebenazadi
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KetoKamp
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebenazadi

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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For twenty years, Kelsey Buchalter cycled through hospitals, medications, and every conventional treatment psychiatry could offer for anorexia, bulimia, and anxiety. None of it touched the underlying problem. What finally did was a single instruction from a nutritionist: eat only red meat and eggs for ten days.

Now a health coach at Ovadia Heart Health, Kelsey sits down with Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to trace the biological mechanism behind that shift, and to challenge a premise most mental health treatment never questions: that the mind can be repaired while the body remains inflamed and malnourished. She draws a sharp distinction between disordered eating and dietary intervention, one that has nothing to do with what's on the plate and everything to do with why it's there.

The conversation moves through decision fatigue, the vagus nerve's surprising link to the human voice, and the difference between healing from fear versus healing from self-respect. It is a story about what happens when biology gets treated before anyone tries to talk the mind into changing.

BIG IDEA

Before psychology can do its work, biology has to be stabilized first, and for Kelsey Buchalter, that meant confronting the idea that her mental illness was never a character flaw but a body in crisis.

kelsey buchalter
instagram: kelseybuchalter
Podcast: The Human Theater

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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Cardiac imaging expert Kim Mischo spent 20 years inside the cardiology machine — running nuclear stress tests that told patients they were fine, then watching some of those patients have heart attacks the following week. She knew the system was broken long before she could prove it.

Now she can prove it.

A non-invasive scan exists that can detect coronary artery disease at 5% blockage — before symptoms, before a stress test would ever flag anything. It's been guideline-recommended since 2021. It's 99% accurate. And insurance won't cover it.

The reason why is the part of this conversation that will stay with you.

Dr. Philip Ovadia and Kim Mischo walk through the technology, the economics, and the quiet institutional logic that keeps a life-saving diagnostic tool out of reach for most Americans — while a far less accurate, far more expensive alternative continues to dominate cardiology practices nationwide.

This is a conversation about what early detection of heart disease could look like, and why it doesn't yet.

BIG IDEA

Between 50 and 60 percent of patients die from their first heart attack — which means the insurance company never had to pay a single claim related to their coronary disease.

Kim Mischo Contact Info:
Website: https://clearheartandlung.com/

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WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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Martha Carlin wasn't a scientist when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 44. She was an auditor — trained to follow the evidence wherever it leads, and to never take anything at face value. That discipline took her somewhere medicine hadn't yet looked: the gut.

What she found over the next two decades reframes how we understand not just Parkinson's, but chronic constipation, cancer, metabolic disease, sleep, cravings, and the quiet collapse of human health since World War II. The microbiome isn't a side conversation — it may be the whole conversation.

This episode traces one woman's obsessive, rigorous, grief-fueled investigation into what's really living inside us, what we've done to destroy it, and whether we can get it back. The answers are more specific — and more actionable — than you might expect.

BIG IDEA

The gut is not a digestive accessory — it is a pharmacological ecosystem that governs your brain, your immune system, your cravings, and possibly the trajectory of every major chronic disease you will ever face.

Contact Information: Martha Carlin
Websites:
Biotiquest - https://biotiquest.com/
The Bio Collective - https://www.thebiocollective.com/
Open Biome - https://openbiome.org/

Books from Martha Carlin :
"Connected" - https://amzn.to/4eMHNmL
"My Search for the Perfect Poop" - https://amzn.to/492PJwx

References:
"Missing Microbes" by Martin J. Blaser: - https://amzn.to/4wwyIEK

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Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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

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Most people trying to get healthier are losing a battle they don't know they're fighting. It's not a lack of information. It's not even a lack of effort. It's something quieter — the stories running beneath the surface, the environments they've stopped noticing, the split-second decisions that feel small until they're not.

Martin Silva has spent 20 years coaching people out of the patterns that keep them stuck. A former competitive natural bodybuilder who hit the aesthetic ceiling and found it hollow, he now works with high-achievers in their 40s and 50s — people who are disciplined in every area of life except this one.

In this conversation, Martin unpacks the real architecture of lasting change: why willpower always fails, how your circle quietly shapes your body, why doing less in the gym often produces more, and what it actually takes to stop starting over.

The information was never the problem.

BIG IDEA

It's way easier to avoid temptation than it is to resist it — and no one gets healthy by relying on willpower.

Martin Silva - Contact Info
Website: OptimiseYourBody.com
Podcast: Martin Silva Fitness
Instagram: Martin Silva Fitness

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WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to https://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 https://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.