A heart attack can feel like a world-ending emergency. Although 805,000 people experience one every year, it can still be an incredibly isolating medical event — and perhaps not something you thought would happen to you. There are countless articles online explaining how you can avoid heart attacks. But now that you’ve experienced one and
The concept of intuitive eating just makes sense, especially in a world of deprivation diets that leave us hungry, tired, and irritable. But intuitive eating isn’t a silver bullet in every circumstance. Success or failure depends on what you’re fueling your body with — and with more than 73% of the US food supply inundated
Is obesity genetic or environmental? If you ask a lot of conventional doctors, genetics may be their first response. After all, some ‘skinny’ people can eat fried food all day and look perfectly healthy. So you sign up to test your family genetics for contributing factors of obesity. You know it’s expensive — potentially several
The conversion of food into energy is a wonderfully complicated thing. It’s an undertaking so complicated, in fact, that our muscles and organs can’t do it alone. There needs to be a middleman between ingestion and digestion — and it requires billions of living organisms housed inside your gut. Experts suggest up to 10 trillion
You’ve been told eating fatty foods will lead to an early death. So you made the switch to a low fat diet to protect yourself from heart disease. But after years of following doctor recommendations and buying fat free yogurt, your lab work clearly shows that your risk factors have gone up, not down. What
Health isn’t produced by accident. It requires intentionality and dedication — and good data can give you a huge boost. If understanding the driving factors was easier, we wouldn’t have a modern health crisis involving 93.2% of US adults. But new technology has made our metabolic health both accessible and understandable. Tools like continuous glucose
We often talk about the physical symptoms of poor metabolic health, but many don’t realize how much metabolic health affects the brain — particularly our ability to think, learn, and memorize new information. Unless you get your health under control, you may be risking a lot more than just brain fog. More than 600 million
My latest interview on the Ketogeen Instituut Nederland Podcast, based in the Netherlands, has been released. The episode is entitled “Blijf Weg Van Mijn Operatietafel (Stay Off My Operating Table) – with Dr. Philip Ovadia”.
Do you have growing reservations about the American healthcare system? You’re certainly not alone. Today, three in four people (76%) don’t leave their doctor’s office on a good note. Many feel lost about their diagnosis, confused about their at-home care regime, or unimpressed by the short or dismissive Q&A that results in a prescription rather
Are seed oils healthy? That depends on who you ask. If you ask someone in a multi-million dollar industry with a lot of money to lose, you’d probably hear whatever they thought would keep the dollars rolling in — whether the claims are true or not. The global consumption of seed oil has increased nearly
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