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From the bestselling authors who launched the metabolic health movement, Dr. Philip Ovadia and Joshua Lisec, comes the nutrition breakthrough you've been waiting for. You cleaned up your diet. You followed the plan. So why aren't you seeing the results? The truth is, it's not just what you eat; it's what your body absorbs. In this long-awaited follow-up to Stay Off My Operating Table, Dr. Philip Ovadia and Joshua Lisec reveal the best-kept secret in nutrition science: Your gut health and nutrient absorption matter just as much as the food on your plate.

Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like this: restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These “solutions” do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms.

I was a morbidly obese heart surgeon.All through high school, college, med school and surgical training, I followed the U.S. dietary guidelines for both diet and exercise. Yet nothing I did kept the weight off. I just kept getting fatter and fatter.Each day in surgery, I would split open the chests of people just like me. I knew I was heading for the operating table myself if I didn't find solutions that worked. In 2016, I finally found a way to lose 100 pounds and keep it off. Now - in addition to doing heart surgery - I work to help people just like me get healthy, lose the weight and ...