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by Dr. Philip Ovadia
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.
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- 3 days ago46 min
252: The Hidden Illness Hiding in Your Walls: Mold, Misdiagnosis & the Path Back - Ally D'Amico NP
You've done the work. You cleaned up your diet, fixed your sleep, addressed your metabolic health — and something is still wrong. Brain fog you can't explain. Fatigue that won't move. Weight creeping up for no apparent reason. Personality changes your family notices before you do. Nurse practitioner Ally D'Amico spent 14 years watching patients spiral through specialists, collect diagnoses like fibromyalgia and chronic depression, and never actually get better — until she stumbled onto the th...
- 1 weeks ago51 min
251: Stem Cells, Peptides, and the Real Reason You're Getting Old - Dr. Adeel Khan
Your body already knows how to heal itself. The question is whether anyone is giving it the right signals. Dr. Adeel Khan trained as a conventional physician before following a thread most doctors ignore: what if we could restore the system, not just manage the symptoms? That thread led him through sports medicine, global laboratories, stem cell research, and a fundamental rethinking of what aging actually is at the cellular level. In this conversation, Dr. Khan explains why most clinics call...
- 2 weeks ago57 min
250: Seven Years, 700 Cholesterol, Zero Plaque: What Nick Norwitz's Case Report Changes
Nick Norwitz has an MD, a PhD, and a cholesterol level that should have killed him — at least according to the standard model of cardiovascular disease. For seven years, his total cholesterol held above 700. His LDL sat in the high 500s. Every clinical algorithm flagged him as a cardiac emergency. He took none of the prescribed medications. His just-published case report shows zero coronary plaque. Not reduced. Not minimal. Zero. This episode isn't a victory lap. It's a serious conversation a...
- 3 weeks ago43 min
249: You've Seen 10 Doctors and Still Aren't Better. Here's Why - Reed Davis
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 inte...
- May 5, 202658 min
The Patient Is the Point: How AI Is Forcing Medicine to Finally Listen - Dr. Ami Bhatt
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 system...
- Apr 28, 20261h 18m
247: Darius Sharpe, The ER Nurse Who Ran His Own Blood Sugar Experiments (And Found Heart Disease)
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 l...
- Apr 21, 20261h 0m
246: The Missing Link Between Menopause, Marriage & Your Microbiome - Cynthia Thurlow
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, ...
- Apr 14, 20261h 2m
245: Your Doctor Can't Save You: Dylan Gemelli on Accountability, Arterial Plaque, & the Health System's Blind Spots
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 ha...
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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.
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