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.
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.
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.
For 15 years I was a heart surgeon heading straight for my own operating table, morbidly obese, pre-diabetic, and giving patients advice that wasn’t even working for me. In this conversation with Niklas Gustafson, I lay out what I think we’ve been wrong about for 50 years, and the one test 95% of heart patients would fail.
Alzheimer’s disease is often called ‘type 3 diabetes,’ but few discuss the critical role cholesterol plays in brain health. Contrary to outdated beliefs, cholesterol isn’t the enemy—it’s essential for cognitive function, nerve regeneration, and cellular repair. Emerging research suggests that lowering cholesterol artificially with statins may increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s. Learn why maintaining healthy cholesterol levels through proper diet, sleep, and lifestyle changes is crucial for long-term brain health.
You’re following all the official guidelines to reduce your risk for heart disease. You eat whole grains, walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes a day, and buy skim rather than whole milk for your ‘heart-healthy’ breakfast cereal. But the more you stick to the doctor’s script, the sicker you feel. I know because it
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