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Why concierge medicine is the future of heart healthcare
Discover how concierge medicine for heart health can provide personalized care, advanced testing, and direct access to specialists. Learn how telehealth can help you take a more proactive approach to your cardiovascular and metabolic health.
Telehealth: good or bad for metabolic health?
Telehealth makes healthcare more accessible, but not all providers offer the same level of care. Learn how Ovadia Heart Health combines personalized cardiac and metabolic health assessments with expert medical guidance and ongoing support.
Be careful about trusting calorie labels
Calorie labels aren’t always accurate, and counting calories alone may not deliver the results you expect. Discover how reporting errors, food quality, and processing affect weight management, and explore a nutrient-dense approach focused on whole foods, protein, and healthy fats.
Can We Trust Modern Medicine?
Dr. Aseem Malhotra joins Dr. Philip Ovadia to question some of modern medicine’s biggest assumptions, from cholesterol and statins to stents, metabolic health, COVID vaccine safety, and the evidence behind the treatments patients are told to trust.
Is there a connection between heart health and xylitol?
Ultra-processed sugars have become an unwelcome (and unfortunately near-universal) part of the US grocery store — and our metabolic health feels every gram of it. As a result, many of us have turned to sugar substitutes in our daily diet. One of the most popular of these is xylitol. And while sugar alternatives may be
What in the world is dyslipidemia (and what does it mean for your heart)?
Dyslipidemia is an imbalance of fats in your blood, including LDL, HDL, and triglycerides. Learn what these numbers can mean for your heart, why context matters when evaluating cholesterol, and how nutrition, exercise, sleep, and stress management can help improve your metabolic and cardiovascular health.
Mediterranean diet vs keto: Which is better for heart health?
See how the Mediterranean and keto diets compare for heart health. We break down research on blood sugar, triglycerides, inflammation, liver fat, and insulin resistance to explore why carbohydrate restriction may offer greater cardiometabolic benefits.
Cholesterol myths your doctor might still believe (+ what modern research says)
Cholesterol has been misunderstood for decades. Discover what modern research says about LDL, dietary cholesterol, heart attack risk, statins, and the markers that may matter more for your heart health.
Preventing heart disease requires a new paradigm
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,
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