Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine

About this episode

Dr. Philip Ovadia discusses metabolic health, diet, and the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease.

In this episode I speak with heart surgeon, Dr. Philip Ovadia MD, about metabolic health, diet, science, cholesterol, insulin resistance, the US government food pyramid, Ancel Keys and the cholesterol - saturated fat -heart disease hypothesis. We discuss medical education, health insurance, scientism, and some of the obstacles doctors and scientists face with “group think.” Dr Ovadia tells his story of how lost 100 pounds changed everything he learned about fat and food. He explains that while half of the patients who have heart attacks or heart surgery have normal levels of cholesterol, over 90% have insulin resistance. He argues that metabolic health is not only important for heart health, but for mental health, and plays a key role in preventing cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. We discuss a number of themes including Gary Taubes: The Case Sugar and Why We Get Fat Problems of Crony Capitalism and Subsidies How the Government Food Pyramid makes you fat Metabolic Health and Covid The Campbell Effect and how bad science has dominated medicine Weston Price Insulin Resistance Diabetes Saturated Fat Pharmacuetical Industry and Medication Seed Oils Health Insurance and the need for new…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Matheson Miller

Guest: Philip Ovadia MD

Topics covered

• metabolic health
• diet
• cholesterol
• heart disease
• insulin resistance
• mental health
• government food pyramid

Keywords

• metabolic health
• cholesterol
• heart disease
• insulin resistance
• diet
• mental health
• government food pyramid
• saturated fat
• diabetes
• pharmaceutical industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ovadia Heart Health

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