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You don't need another pill. You need metabolic health.
Telemedicine cardiac and metabolic healthcare that prevents surgery, reverses risk, and gives you your life back.
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Stay Off My Operating Table
A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day
Dr. Philip Ovadia has performed thousands of open-heart surgeries, and he believes most of them could have been prevented. After losing more than 100 pounds himself, the board-certified heart surgeon realized that the root cause behind so many of his patients' heart problems was the same one he had faced: poor metabolic health. Stay Off My Operating Table is his bestselling guide to fixing it. In plain language, Dr. Ovadia explains where mainstream diets and medicine go wrong, and lays out a clear, practical system for taking back control of your health long before you ever need a surgeon.
Lose Weight
Learn why calorie counting and low-fat diets keep failing, and what works instead. Dr. Ovadia shares the approach that helped him lose over 100 pounds. It's built on real, nutrient-dense food, not constant hunger or deprivation.
Prevent Disease
Heart disease, type 2 diabetes and many other chronic conditions share a common root: metabolic dysfunction. Discover the health markers that reveal your true risk, and the steps to address it before it becomes a diagnosis.
Feel your Best Every Day
Metabolic health isn't only about avoiding the operating table. It means more energy, fewer cravings and a clearer head. Build simple daily habits that help you feel good now and keep feeling that way for years to come.
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Stay Off My Kitchen Table
A Heart Surgeon’s 4-Week Elimination Diet for Gut Repair, Metabolic Health, and Longevity
You cleaned up your diet and followed the plan, so why aren't you seeing results? In Stay Off My Kitchen Table, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Stay Off My Operating Table, board-certified heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia and co-author Joshua Lisec reveal what most nutrition advice overlooks: it's not just what you eat, it's what your body absorbs. With a foreword by Bill Schindler, PhD, the book lays out a clear, step-by-step 4-week elimination diet that removes the hidden foods holding you back and fills your table with nourishing foods your body can truly use.
Gut Repair
Some foods quietly irritate your gut and block the nutrients you need, including "superfoods" that can backfire. The 4-week elimination diet removes these hidden triggers to calm inflammation, reset your digestion and reveal which foods really work for your body.
Metabolic Health
Healthy choices only pay off when your body can use them. Learn how to get more nutrition from fewer foods, keep your blood sugar steady, and clear out the foods that stall your progress and hold back your metabolism.
Longevity
The path to a longer, healthier life isn't about doing more. It's about doing less, the right way. Build simple, sustainable habits, track your progress along the way, and give your body what it needs to thrive as you age.
Courses
Introduction to Alcohol
Cholesterol is extremely misunderstood: it’s a vital component of our cell membranes (including white blood cells). While certain cholesterol levels can indicate an elevated risk of heart disease, it’s important to understand the full picture.
Introduction to Cholesterol
Cholesterol is extremely misunderstood: it’s a vital component of our cell membranes (including white blood cells). While certain cholesterol levels can indicate an elevated risk of heart disease, it’s important to understand the full picture.
The 7 Principles of Metabolic Health
The mechanism of heart disease is strongly related to metabolic health, or, to be more accurate, the lack thereof, which is why metabolic syndrome is considered a precursor to heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiac events.
Introduction to Fasting
Cutting through the clutter and noise takes some time, but from an applied research and scientific standpoint, you should know that fasting can have enormous benefits on your metabolic health.
Introduction to Lab Work
The signs of a healthy heart aren’t always visible, but certain factors can be measured to assess your current wellness. In this course, I share with you the lab work you should order to check your metabolic health.
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About our Founder
Back in 2014 Dr. Philip Ovadia was 100 pounds overweight, low energy, and miserable.
In his profession he was a complete success.
In his health he was a complete failure.
Here's what changed... [Read More]
You're doing what your doctors say. You're still tired, inflamed, gaining weight, and terrified of a heart attack.
The truth is, standard care is failing you.
Standard care manages disease
It rarely fixes the root metabolic dysfunction. You're given pills to manage symptoms while the underlying problem gets worse.
Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans
Because nobody fixed their metabolic health in time. Surgery becomes inevitable when the real problem is never addressed.
There's a better way.
One that addresses the root cause and keeps you off the operating table.
How Dr. Ovadia addresses heart disease
A proven framework to reverse metabolic dysfunction and reclaim your health
Find the Real Problem
Advanced labs, metabolic health assessment, and long conversations with our medical team. We dig deep to identify what's really going on.
Fix What's Broken
Nutrition, lifestyle, and personalized protocols that target insulin resistance, inflammation, and plaque risk.
Never Go Back
Continuing care from our medical team, ongoing health coaching, regular labs, and metabolic health education for you.
This isn't guesswork. It's a repeatable system backed by metabolic science.
Our latest articles
For the first half of my career as a heart surgeon, I was heading toward becoming one of my own patients. I had struggled with my weight since childhood. I became morbidly obese. My hemoglobin A1c reached 5.9, putting me in the pre-diabetic range. And despite spending my career treating people with advanced heart disease,