Today, I am blessed to have Dr. Philip Ovadia. He is a board-certified Cardiac Surgeon and the founder of Ovadia Heart Health. From his personal experience, he made a goal to maintain his patients' metabolic health and keep them off the surgery table.  Despite being a surgeon, Dr Philip is overweight. Whatever effort he makes following the recommendation of the flawed medical system, he remains overweight. But with the help of his wife, Dr. Philip began to take action, search for the truth, and eventually reach his goal of being metabolically healthy.  Now, Dr. Philip made it his mission to help people fix their metabolic weight. With his knowledge and experience, he will do anything to awaken people from our current flawed medical system.  Dr. Philip is also the author of the book Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day.  In this episode, Dr. Philip Ovadia discusses how heart disease started and the factor that causes heart disease. He also talks about how stress can trigger heart disease. Furthermore, Dr. Philip shared his knowledge about why it is important to have lab tests, the truth about fish oil, and the diet we should have to achieve a metabolically healthy body. Tune in as we chat about heart disease, cholesterol, stress, lab test, fish oil, proper diet, and many more!  Get Dr Philip Ovadia’s book Stay Off My Operating Table Here: https://www.amazon.com/Stay-off-Operating-Table-Metabolic-ebook/dp/B09GL4S6G4/benazadi-20 Download your FREE Vegetable Oil Allergy Card here: https://onlineoffer.lpages.co/vegetable-oil-allergy-card-download/ / / E P I S O D E   S P ON S O R S  Wild Pastures: $20 OFF per Box for Life + Free Shipping for Life + $15 OFF your 1st Box! https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life-lf?oid=6&affid=132&source_id=podcast&sub1=ad BonCharge: Blue light Blocking Glasses, Red Light Therapy, Sauna Blankets & More. Visit https://boncharge.com/pages/ketokamp and use the coupon code KETOKAMP for 15% off your order.  Text me the words "Podcast" +1 (786) 364-5002 to be added to my contacts list. [01:05] Heart Disease: The History of How The Leading Killer Disease Worldwide Began  -       In the early 1900s, heart disease is an exceedingly rare condition. -       Eventually, it became more prominent, and in the 1950s, it reached a crisis point. -       70 years later, the solution to fight heart disease still has yet to progress. -       Cholesterol was not the problem.  [15:14] What Is the One Factor That Causes Heart Disease? Know Your Risk  -   Heart disease is not multifactorial. It just has one factor that contributes to heart disease. -   In atherosclerotic heart disease, damage to the blood vessel wall is a primary contributing component. -   These damages to the blood vessel are caused by common factors such as insulin resistance, smoking, and high blood pressure. -   Vegetable and seed oils are also a contributor to heart disease.  [24:49] What's the Connection Between Being Stressed and Heart Disease? What Should You Do?  -       Stress plays an important role in heart disease, and it's one of the pillars of health -       The difficult part about stress is we don't have a great way of measuring it. -       There's a cardiac condition called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a stress-induced heart attack. -       Managing stress is a very important aspect of mitigating your risk for heart disease.  [28:19] Lab Test: The Importance of Getting a Lab Assessment Into Our Bodies  -       The amount of cholesterol isn't the right thing to look at. We need to look at the quality of the cholesterol in our bodies. -       Until you get damage to the blood vessel and the cholesterol particles, you cannot produce heart disease and plaques in the heart's blood vessels. -       Push to get an NMR panel. It is not expensive and is usually covered by insurance. -       You need to know a doctor who knows what they're looking