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Stay off My Operating Table®: A Heart Surgeon's Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day

By Philip Ovadia

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Here's why they fail.

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.

As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed-metabolic health.

What you eat determines how long and how well you live. Yet most doctors don't learn that in medical school. And pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers have a vested interest in the public not knowing how to live and eat metabolically healthy.

In Stay off My Operating Table®, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries don't want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, "7-day," radical diets, Dr. Ovadia's approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that works.

Whether you've suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table® will help you take back control of your health from the institutions and experts that have failed you.

It’s time to eat real, whole food.

Philip Ovadia Author -

Stay Off My Operating Table®

When I was an obese heart surgeon trying to lose weight, I tried every fad diet I could find. None of them worked. So I embarked on a journey to discover why. And discovering the truth about metabolic health and the poisoned food we eat today changed my life forever.

That’s when I started helping others to find the truth that would keep them alive. We were born to thrive and to eat real food, not to have our bodies fall apart long before we reach old age. You don’t have to live that way, no matter what doctors have told you. You can get healthier and live a better life.

Stay off My Operating Table®: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day will inspire you to stop accepting avoidable diseases and choose to take control of your health. Whatever medical struggles you face, you have a chance to fix your body and live the life you’ve always wanted. You just need to know the truth.

Losing weight can be challenging and we can feel hopeless against heart disease and diabetes. It doesn’t help that even doctors tell us that poor health is inevitable. But when you know the truth, you can stop accepting the lies and reclaim your health. Even if you’ve already had a heart attack. Even if you already have Type 2 diabetes. Even if you’re stuck in your home from chronic conditions. Anyone can benefit from this advice and improve their quality of life.

You need to build a body that will carry you through the rest of your life. No one else is going to do that for you. But you need the right information to maximize your results. That’s why I’m holding this live event, to answer questions and provide targeted support to people with specific concerns.

Sincerely,

Philip

Editorial Reviews

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"Stay off My Operating Table® is a must-read. This is the book for any physician or patient who wants to prevent disease if possible and to otherwise improve outcomes. Dr. Ovadia understands the central role metabolic health plays in the body, knowledge which enables him to keep potential future cardiac patients off his operating table. I am sharing this book with other doctors at the USC Keck School of Medicine so they can learn how diet affects everything we do in medicine."

-Robert Lufkin, MD, Chief of Head Neck Imaging/Neuroradiology, Prohealth Advanced Imaging Network & Clinical Professor of Radiology, USC Keck School of Medicine

 

"Most so-called 'health experts' have no idea what they're talking about. In fact, their advice usually results in you getting sicker, fatter, and angrier. And you're left with no clue about what to do different. Dr. Philip Ovadia changes everything. Not only is he an actual doctor who understands the problems with our sick-care system, he knows how the human body actually works. In Stay off My Operating Table®, Dr. Ovadia shows you how to get your metabolic health right and, in turn, get everything else right. Your weight, your blood sugar, your blood pressure, your cholesterol and triglycerides, your energy, everything."

-Vinnie Tortorich, Author, Fitness Confidential

 

"Working in clinical medicine for more than twenty years has demonstrated to me that we often overlook the root cause of chronic disease in an effort to manage symptoms. I firmly believe that if we could help identify the real etiologies and reasons for chronic illness, and the lifestyle contributors to inflammation, insulin resistance, etc., we would have a much healthier population. Dr. Philip Ovadia's book brilliantly identifies how best to empower our current medical establishment to help reverse current statistics and metabolic inflexibility."

-Cynthia Thurlow, Nurse Practitioner, Intermittent Fasting and Nutrition Expert, and Two-Time TEDx Speaker

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars

A great book for everyone who wants to lose fat and keep it off

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2021

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Dr Ovadia's book explains what is metabolic health, why it is so important, how it is impacted by our lifestyle choices and the food we eat, and how it can be improved. He clearly describes what are healthy food choices and why, in a manner that is both actionable and sustainable. Dr Ovadia writes with great empathy as - in his own words - he was on both sides of the office visit as a heart surgeon and as a patient. At the end of the book, the readers will be much more aware of their food choices, how they impact their metabolic health and will be presented with a clear path forward for a healthier and longer life. I personally encourage everyone to read this book and follow Dr Ovadia's advice, which has benefitted me greatly in the past year since I've known him. My wife, an endocrinologist with 20+ years of clinical experience treating diabetes and obesity, plans to recommend this book to her colleagues and patients alike.


5.0 out of 5 stars

Compact, essential guide for metabolic health

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021

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In 150 pages Dr. Philip Ovadia provides a concise guide for measuring and obtaining what's now termed "metabolic health." He provides five basic ways everyone can measure her/his MH [metabolic health] from measuring your circumference at the waist, to blood pressure readings to numbers gleaned from blood panel draws. He suggests resources for these blood measurements outside of traditional doctors' office visits The book revives an ancient practice - footnotes, hooray, however tiny the type - but discards another, an index. Hence, I had to jot down the page numbers of subjects of particular interest, such as insulin resistance and continuous glucose monitors. An especially gratifying feature is Dr. Ovadia's repeated reminders, or emphases, on where the profit motive resides in medicine. Hospitals, insurance, supplements, you name it. All institutions and services originally devised to benefit our health have metastasized into center of unimaginable profit. Beware the hype when you can take charge of your health with the assistance of your interested physician. Another useful feature is Ovadia's critique of five popular and promoted diets: carnivore; keto, paleo, Atkins, and low-carb diets; gluten-free; Mediterranean; vegetarian and vegan. The pros and cons of each are presented.


 5.0 out of 5 stars

 This Doctor understand health- and it's not about meds and surgery

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022

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I'm on my second read of Dr Ovadia's book. It's beaten up with underlines, highlights and MUSTS do's get me back to the health I had and enjoyed. I really feel he understands what it takes to feel better, have more energy and create tiny habits to get you there with any complicated diets, cleanses etc. I implemented about 80% of his content with very little effort and some determination and courage on my part. I highly recommend not only reading this book but taking action (he makes it easy to do) as you read! Congrats on this book doctor. Phil


About the Author

Dr. Philip Ovadia is a board-certified Cardiac Surgeon and founder of Ovadia Heart Health. His mission is to optimize the public's metabolic health and help people stay off his operating table. As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed-metabolic health.

 

In Stay off My Operating Table®: A Heart Surgeon's Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease.

 

Dr. Ovadia grew up in New York and graduated from the accelerated Pre-Med/Med program at the Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. This was followed by a residency in General Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey and a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tufts - New England Medical School.

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