In 1991, a 19-year-old pre-med student was diagnosed with end-stage ovarian cancer and told nothing could be done. She is still alive. Dr. Nasha Winters joins Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to trace the strange, unscripted path that got her there, and the decades of research since that convinced her modern oncology is aiming at the wrong target entirely.

Winters, now a naturopathic oncologist who has trained clinicians in 46 countries, argues that cancer and heart disease are not the separate diseases we treat them as, and that both persist because medicine keeps chasing a single mutation or a single marker while ignoring the environment those cells live in. She walks through what happens when a patient's terrain, not just their tumor, becomes the focus, using a recent case involving her own mother's stroke and another involving a woman whose pancreatic cancer went undiagnosed for years despite warning signs sitting in her chart.

This conversation covers the biology of stress and immune function, the limits of standard-of-care protocols, and what questions patients should be asking before they accept a diagnosis at face value.

BIG IDEA

Cancer and heart disease are not separate battles but the same underlying failure of terrain, and medicine keeps losing ground by treating the tumor instead of the environment that made it possible.

Contact Info Dr. Nasha Winters, Naturopathic Oncologist
email: info@tendtheterrain.com
Website: drnasha.com
Book: A Metabolic Approach to Cancer: https://amzn.to/4wJOdct
Paper: Modulation of Cytokine Expression by Traditional Medicines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16813462/
Direct-to-Consumer Labs Discount through the lab site: "Toolshed"

DHA Laboratories


Dr. Mina Bissell: The Extra Cellular Matrix https://www.ted.com/talks/mina_bissell_experiments_that_point_to_a_new_understanding_of_cancer
Dr. Robert Ader: Psycho Neuro Immunology https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60134-2/fulltext
Dr. Candace Pert: Molecules of Emotion https://amzn.to/4wIELWt
Dr. Bruce Lipton: https://amzn.to/4fXAfMI

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

Dr. Ken Berry argues humans have a species-specific “proper human diet” and that low-carb/keto approaches can prevent and reverse diabetes, yet major institutions resist due to incentives and enforcement pressures. He founded the nonprofit American Diabetes Society and built “Dr. Berry AI” to spread practical guidance and advocacy.

01:49 Dr. Berry's Background
07:35 The American Diabetes Society
22:24 The Future of AI in Medicine
28:39 Dr. Berry AI
29:27 The Vitamin A Test
40:28 Medical Board Experience
54:54 Wrap-Up & Resources

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

Dr. Sean O'Mara scans hearts for a living, but not the way most cardiologists do. He measures the ring of fat wrapped around the heart muscle itself, a structure most physicians were never trained to look for and few insurance codes account for. In this conversation, O'Mara walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through a case that reframes what fasting, the microbiome, and the body's own signaling chemistry can accomplish in a matter of days, not months. He explains why the fat around the heart shares blood vessels with the coronary arteries themselves, why atrial fibrillation may trace back to it, and why the peptide his body makes naturally works on a completely different timescale than the synthetic version sold in a pen. The conversation moves from operating rooms to boardrooms to a proposal for paying physicians based on outcomes instead of prescriptions, with O'Mara's own client list, now including senior politicians, as evidence the model already works. What emerges is a case for measuring the right things in the human body, and a warning about what happens when medicine measures the wrong ones instead.

BIG IDEA

Dr. Sean O'Mara argues that the inflammatory fat surrounding the heart is a measurable, reversible form of structural disease, and that realigning medicine's incentives around eliminating it, rather than managing its symptoms, could transform both individual health and the healthcare system itself.

Dr. Sean O’Mara Contact Information
Website : https://drseanomara.com/
Twitter/X: DrSeanOMaraInstagram: drseanomara Facebook : drseanomara

LinkedIn : Sean O'mara

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra relates his path from mainstream interventional cardiology to challenging the mainstream's cholesterol hypothesis.

Malhotra explains:

• why biased research funding misleads doctors and patients about statin benefits and harms
• why most coronary stents don’t prevent heart attacks or extend life outside acute situations
• why medicine is not an exact science
• the "Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Myth"
• His awakening over vaccine injury risk
• Censorship in medicine
• The changing culture of cardiolgy

Dr. Aseem Malhotra Contact Info:
BOOK: A Statin Free Life

FILM: First Do No Pharm

Social Media

• X: @DrAseem
• Other Platforms: @lifestylemedicine

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

A 34-year-old functional medicine practitioner had every marker doctors look for: a zero calcium score, clean metabolic labs, a lean and active build. Six months later he had a widowmaker heart attack with a total blockage and no plaque anywhere else in his arteries.

In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Hussey walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through what happened after the stent, the questions the hospital would not answer, and the research he pursued once he left. That research led him toward mechanisms of clotting and arterial injury rarely discussed in a cardiology office, and toward a recovery protocol built around light, circadian rhythm, and the biophysics of blood flow rather than the standard prescription pad.

He also describes tracking a second, unrelated vascular event in his leg through ultrasound imaging over eighteen months, watching it resolve without intervention. Hussey lays out the environmental signals he believes drive arterial healing, and why he thinks the conventional model of heart disease treats a downstream symptom while missing where the damage actually begins.

For anyone who has been told their labs look fine and still worries about their heart, this is a different way of asking why.

BIG IDEA

A heart attack survivor with textbook-perfect metabolic markers set out to find the mechanism his cardiologists never asked about, and it changed how he thinks the body protects and heals its arteries.

Dr. Stephen Hussey - Contact Info
Prior Appearance on “Stay Off My Operating Table” appearance: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/10708494
Webpage: https://resourceyourhealth.com/
X: https://x.com/DrStephenHussey
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrStephenHussey/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstephenhussey/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEHJGZ17zRDZ9rn7yYrC-bQ

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

Most chronic physical and mental health problems trace back to "ancestral mismatch" — the gap between the ancient environment our biology was shaped by and the modern, overly convenient one we now live in. Dr. Berg's book breaks this mismatch into nine trackable "environments" (food, social, light, work, cognitive, etc.) and argues that fixing willpower isn't the answer — redesigning your surroundings is.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"Change your environment one time and make it easy for you to succeed."
— Dr. Eric Berg

CONTACT INFO:

Dr. Eric Berg Contact Info
Bio: With over 47,000,000 followers worldwide, Dr. Eric Berg DC spreads the truth about getting healthy and losing weight. Dr. Berg DC, age 61, (as of Sept 2026), specializes in Healthy Keto® and Intermittent Fasting.

He is the director of Dr. Berg's Nutritionals and a best-selling Amazon author.

His new book, "Change Your Environments", is available now. https://amzn.to/4xzycpX

Website: https://www.drberg.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3w193M5tYPJqF0Hi-7U-2g
X: https://x.com/dr_ericberg

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

For decades, Professor Tim Noakes told the world that carbohydrate-loaded muscles were the secret to endurance performance. He built a career on it, wrote a bestselling running manual around it, and trained a generation of athletes to believe it. Then, standing at a podium, he tore the nutrition chapter out of his own book.

In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, the South African physiologist traces a personal reckoning that began with an unlikely diagnosis: type 2 diabetes, arrived at while running fifty miles a week and staying lean. He walks through the science that forced him to abandon three decades of orthodoxy, the university battle and courtroom fight that followed his public reversal, and a model of carbohydrate metabolism built on two very different pools of glucose, one that barely matters and one that determines whether an athlete falters.

The conversation moves from Cape Town laboratories to Mongolia to a South African courtroom, and lands on a mechanism connecting muscle glycogen, insulin, and the ability to burn fat that most people, including many physicians, were never taught.

BIG IDEA

How much glycogen sits in the muscles determines whether insulin stays elevated and the body keeps burning carbohydrate instead of fat, a discovery that overturned decades of sports nutrition dogma and reframed muscle glycogen not as a performance reserve but as a dumping ground for excess blood glucose.

Professor Tim Noakes Contact Info
Website: https://TheNoakesFoundation.org
Book: The Lore of Running (Complete Update Coming) https://amzn.to/3RUTRsV

Interview with Dr. Eric Westman: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/14766410

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

Dr. Jay Wrigley, the physician behind Hormone Diet Doc, returns to the podcast after spending nine months building an entirely new framework for hormonal health, drawn from three decades in clinical practice and his own hundred-pound transformation. He rejoins Dr. Philip Ovadia to unpack why the standard thyroid test so often leaves patients with false reassurance, and what actually happens between the thyroid, the liver, and the cell before a hormone can do its job.

The conversation moves through the hormonal shifts that accompany midlife in both men and women, why testosterone replacement is frequently reached for before the underlying metabolic picture is addressed, and the fourteen clinical patterns Wrigley built to help patients recognize what their bodies are actually signaling. Sleep emerges as a surprisingly central factor tying it all together.

The two doctors close by discussing where artificial intelligence fits into the future of the doctor-patient relationship, and why clinical experience may remain irreplaceable even as AI tools become part of everyday health decisions.

BIG IDEA

A normal thyroid test result does not rule out a thyroid problem, and restoring hormonal balance starts with metabolic health, not with replacing hormones.

Dr. Jay Wrigley Contact Info

Health Assessment: https://assessment.drjaywrigley.com/
Website: https://drjaywrigley.com/

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.