Live Q&A: 

Explore Metabolic Strategies to Protect Your Heart

with Philip Ovadia, MD
On Monday, March 31st at 12pm PT / 3pm ET,  join us live inside the CME-centered medical education platform, The Metabolic Initiative, and enjoy an intimate opportunity to engage with a leading physician in preventative heart health, cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, Dr. Philip Ovadia!

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Watch Dr. Ovadia's CME Eligible Lecture Inside the Platform

By signing up for a free trial, you'll also be able to enjoy Dr. Ovadia's presentation: "Fanning the Flames: Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Heart Disease"

Dr. Philip Ovadia, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

about dr. ovadia
Conducting over 3,000 heart surgeries taught Dr. Philip Ovadia that good health comes from lifestyle and nutrition, not from surgery. Sadly, many of his patients considered their heart attacks “inevitable.” He is now on a mission to help people stay off his operating table by giving them the tools and mindset to never need a heart surgeon.

But for as long as he can remember, he was overweight: as a child, teen, and even as a cardiac surgeon. This was despite growing up as an active child in a household that followed USDA guidelines and the Food Pyramid, buying margarine, diet soda, low-fat milk, and avoiding sugary cereals. Like many people, his weight was a constant battle, and food was on his mind from the moment he woke up until he went to sleep.

In 2015, Dr Ovadia adopted a low-carb way of eating, and has effortlessly maintained a weight loss of nearly 100 pounds ever since. Since 2019, he has mostly followed a carnivorous diet. He has extensively researched the health benefits of low-carb diets with a focus on heart health, and learned that our poor diets cause poor metabolic health — a third of US adults have metabolic syndrome and heart disease is responsible for 1 in every 4 deaths. Worse, our healthcare environment is overly focused on prescribing medications and treating the symptoms of a condition instead of addressing the root cause.

Dr Ovadia’s recent book, Stay Off My Operating Table, shares the lifestyle principles to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. He also hosts the Stay Off My Operating Table Podcast, is a frequent guest on other podcasts focused on metabolic and heart health, and has delivered lectures at conferences focused on metabolic health.
In 2020, he established Ovadia Cardiothoracic Surgery and now works as an independent contractor Cardiothoracic Surgeon in various locations throughout the United States. He has also established Ovadia Heart Health, a Telehealth practice that focuses on the prevention and treatment of metabolic and heart disease utilizing lifestyle and dietary modification. He incorporates his hands-on, clinical experience with heart disease and the personal insights he has gained in his own struggle with obesity and poor metabolic health.

Dr. Ovadia graduated from the accelerated Pre-Med/Med program at the Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University) before completing a Residency in General Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical School. He is board certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery and General Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is a founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners.
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Your Live Q&A Host

Metabolic Health Initiative Co-Founder, Victoria Field, will be hosting this live session. Bring your burning questions and join us for an incredible 1-hour deep dive into heart disease prevention!
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