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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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,
Poor metabolic health can undermine even the strongest financial plan. Discover how proactive cardiometabolic care can help protect your health, income, longevity, and financial legacy.
Dr. Philip Ovadia joins Dr. Mariza Snyder to explain why metabolic health and insulin resistance may reveal heart disease risk long before symptoms appear. Learn which markers to track, why muscle matters, and how tools like CGMs and coronary calcium scans can provide deeper insight into your cardiovascular health.
Heart disease risk goes far beyond LDL cholesterol. Dr. Philip Ovadia explains how metabolic health, insulin resistance, inflammation, statins, hormones, and coronary calcium scores can help you better understand your cardiovascular risk.
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