Stay Off My Operating Table

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.
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Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
Jack Heald: @JackHeald5
Books:
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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

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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: 
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Podcast
Substack : https://cynthiathurlownp.substack.com/
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): https://www.cdc.gov/aces/about/index.html
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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.

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.

Dr. Lori Calabrese is a psychiatrist whose trajectory changed when a patient with 15 years of treatment-resistant anorexia went into full remission after a ketogenic diet. What followed was a research journey — pilot studies, peer-reviewed case series, and a now-funded randomized controlled trial — consistently showing that depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and other conditions could achieve complete remission, not just symptom reduction, through metabolic intervention. The key mechanism isn't neurotransmitter adjustment but mitochondrial health: when the brain runs on ketones, it receives a more stable fuel that reduces the erratic neurological firing behind panic, mania, obsessive loops, and psychosis.
Dr. Lori Calabrese MD Contact Info: https://Touchpoints180.org

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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.

Dave Feldman, a software engineer turned citizen scientist, went on a ketogenic diet and watched his LDL cholesterol spike dramatically while his family members on the same diet saw no such change. Unable to get cardiologists or lipidologists to study the phenomenon, he built a public charity from scratch, crowdfunded the research, and designed the Keto CTA study — enrolling 100 metabolically healthy people with very high LDL and scanning their coronary arteries with CT angiograms at baseline and one year later. He filmed the entire process. The result is the documentary The Cholesterol Code.
The findings were notable, but the story became more complicated when the AI-assisted plaque analysis from the company Cleerly produced results Feldman considered statistically anomalous — including zero regressors across 99 participants, and greater plaque progression in people with a calcium score of zero than in those with a positive score, which contradicts established research. 
Dave Feldman Contact Info
The Cholesterol Code Movie: https://cholesterolcodemovie.com/
Citizen Science Foundation Website: https://CitizenScienceFoundation.org: 
Cholesterol Code Website: https://cholesterolcode.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 [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.