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Heart Surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia

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I don't tell patients they need to have heart surgery. Even if 100 out of 100 doctors agree that a patient would benefit from surgery, ultimately it's the patient's decision.

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I’m a heart surgeon. I’ll be the first to tell you—to beg you—to do whatever it takes to never, ever need me. Please stay off my operating table. Fix your metabolic health.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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Meat is not damaging to the heart. Sugar, processed food and seed oils are the problem.

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Sugar is the problem. Meat is the solution.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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They told us in medical school that cholesterol causes heart attacks. 3,000 surgeries taught me that it is just not that simple. Reply "Yes" and I'll send you the 5 things I wish knew earlier about cholesterol.

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I’m a heart surgeon. I’ll be the first to tell you— to beg you— to do whatever it takes to never, ever need me. Please stay off my operating table. Fix your metabolic health. Buy my book "Stay Off My Operating Table" at

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🚨4 metabolic myths from mainstream medicine that are killing you🚨 These 4 lies from big food and big pharma have infected medicine and nutrition, so you can’t trust most doctors. Fixing your choices based on this thread will easily add 10 years to your life.

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Back in 2014 I was 100 pounds overweight, low energy, and miserable. In my profession I was a complete success. In my health I was a complete failure. Here's what changed:

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Skipped the chain restaurants in the airport and got a delicious lunch at the local place instead. Paid cash and tipped generously. I #betonmainstreet Who do you bet on?

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Most physicians don't connect this: heart disease, diabetes, strokes and cancer all have their roots in poor metabolic health.

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3 years

Our role as physicians is not to force anything on the patient. It's not to force medication on the patient. It's not to force a lifestyle on patients. Our role as physicians is to educate the patients and support them.

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You need to count calories because you aren't eating whole real food. If you stopped eating things that came in boxes or wrappers, you wouldn't need to count calories. No one overeats steak and eggs.

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I've done over 3,000 heart surgeries and run a concierge medical practice, and you tell me to read a basic nutrition textbook. This is credentialism as its worst. I say diabetics should not eat sugar out of vast direct experience on this topic. I would never trust a textbook…

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@ifixhearts Please read basic nutrition or endocrinology textbook.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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2 years

Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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3 years

During medical school you are told that half of what you learn will be proven incorrect by the time you retire. I never thought that would include "the patient has an absolute right to decide their own treatment"

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Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue we have. The more muscle you build the better your metabolic health will be.

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They told us in medical school that cholesterol causes heart attacks. 3,000 surgeries taught me that it is just not that simple. Retweet and reply "Yes" and I'll DM you the 5 things I wish knew earlier about cholesterol.

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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Cholesterol is part of the repair mechanism for the damage that is done by poor metabolic health.

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Our role as physicians is not to force anything on the patient. It's not to force medication on the patient. It's not to force a lifestyle on patients. Our role as physicians is to educate the patients and support them.

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HDL and triglycerides are more predictive of heart disease than LDL.

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Who ate margarine as a kid because your parents were health conscious?

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Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue we have. The more muscle you build the better your metabolic health will be.

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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Our role as physicians is not to force anything on the patient. It's not to force medication on the patient. It's not to force a lifestyle on patients. Our role as physicians is to educate the patients and support them.

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Cholesterol is part of the repair mechanism for the damage that is done by poor metabolic health.

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Most physicians don't connect this: heart disease, diabetes, strokes and cancer all have their roots in poor metabolic health.

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Doctors pay too much attention to cholesterol and not enough attention to blood insulin.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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Fake news! Red meat is the best food for most people. The cardiologists who disagree with that were trained in medical schools funded by Fruit Loops and wined and dined by Pfizer sales reps.

Tina Marie 🇺🇦🕶️🐾

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@StevieVanZandt Complete opposite, meat is the worst thing you can eat (especially red) Any cardiologist will tell you that.

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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The more meat you eat, the less often you eat. The less often you eat, the healthier your heart. 🥩😍

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1/ I urge patients to get a CAC scan at 40. But I realize many people don't understand what this entails. I want to demystify some common questions so you can feel more confident about booking a test. Let’s get started.

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Something has gone wrong in the healthcare system. We’ve lost sight of preventing people from getting disease We’re focused on just treating the diseases once people have them. And we’re told they’re permanent, that we can’t undo the damage.

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88% of the adults in the United States are not metabolically healthy. When everyone around you is unhealthy, you may not realize that you've become unhealthy as well.

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Why do I end up doing heart surgery on so many patients who have a normal cholesterol level and who aren't obviously obese? That question led me to go back to the basic science and to understand the importance of metabolic health.

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The ratio between your triglycerides and your HDL is a very good predictor of metabolic health.

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Heart Surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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The ratio between your triglycerides and your HDL is a very good predictor of metabolic health.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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1 year

Excited for this important film from @DrAseemMalhotra This is how we change the system.

Dr Aseem Malhotra

@DrAseemMalhotra

1 year

FIRST DO NO PHARM Medicine is no longer a patient pathway. It is a profit highway. Per my great chat with @joerogan last week, I sincerely believe that this movie will be a game changer. Please get behind it at No retreat. No surrender 👊🔥 #nopharmfilm

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Why do I end up doing heart surgery on so many patients who have a normal cholesterol level and who aren't obviously obese? That question led me to go back to the basic science and to understand the importance of metabolic health.

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I no longer accept the paradigm that high LDL cholesterol is the cause of heart disease

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Finished reading @DrAseemMalhotra new book. It should be required reading for any physician prescribing statins and I strongly recommend it for any patient that has been advised to take, or it taking statins.

A Statin-Free Life: A revolutionary life plan for tackling heart disease – without the use of...

A Statin-Free Life: A revolutionary life plan for tackling heart disease – without the use of statins

www.amazon.com

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Elevated blood glucose associated with worse COVID outcomes I am reading emails from hospital administration: "vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic" As I am watching the semi-truck filled with sugar sweetened beverages being backed into the hospital loading dock 🤦

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Why do I end up doing heart surgery on so many patients who have a normal cholesterol level and who aren't obviously obese? That question led me to go back to the basic science and to understand the importance of metabolic health.

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People don’t expect to be healthy anymore. Medication and poor health are accepted as part of the aging process.

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The ratio between your triglycerides and your HDL is a very good predictor of metabolic health.

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Cholesterol is part of the repair mechanism for the damage that is done by poor metabolic health.

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Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue we have. The more muscle you build the better your metabolic health will be.

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@ifixhearts

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I can finally share! Today I am joining the FDA in the newly created Office Of Metabolic Health. 🤯 Thanks to the many people that helped make this possible. 🙏 Now let's go save lives! 🥳 (Ovadia Heart Health isn't going anywhere- I'm just adding more to my plate 🤣)

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There’s a fundamental lack of acknowledgment that what we eat influences our health.

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50% of people would be healthier as vegans if they cut out the seed oils and sugar. 99% of people would be healthier as carnivores if they cut out the seed oils and sugar. See the trend?

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Why do I end up doing heart surgery on so many patients who have a normal cholesterol level and who aren't obviously obese? That question led me to go back to the basic science and to understand the importance of metabolic health.

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There is no evidence that processed food is beneficial to our health. Processed food is beneficial to the food manufacturers, it is not beneficial to our health.

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@ifixhearts

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People don’t expect to be healthy anymore. Medication and poor health are accepted as part of the aging process.

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Heart disease is the number one worldwide killer and has been for a long time, and the data is very clear poor metabolic health is at the root cause of heart disease.

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The medical system is great at taking care of sick people, but it is not great at helping people avoid being sick.

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There is no evidence that processed food is beneficial to our health. Processed food is beneficial to the food manufacturers, it is not beneficial to our health.

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@ifixhearts

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Your doctor may not be ordering the right lab work. 🤔 If you aren't tracking the right numbers, your chances of winding up on my operating table go up. 😱 Reply "labs" and retweet this post and I'll DM you my guide on what labs you should be getting. 🤓

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We all know alcoholism is an addiction. But we don't recognize sugar addiction is a thing. Why is that?

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Proud to support @DrAseemMalhotra and his True Health initiative. It is time for physicians and patients to Take Back Control of Healthcare

Get more from Dr Aseem on Patreon

creating True Health Team

www.patreon.com

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You can be lean and still be very metabolically unhealthy.

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I spent the majority of my career telling people the reason that they ended up on my table was because their cholesterol was high and they were eating too much fat. I then came to discover that there's a lot of flaws in that reasoning.

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Insulin resistance is a much bigger risk factor for heart disease than LDL cholesterol.

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Why am I operating on people with "normal" cholesterol?

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Who drank skim milk as a kid because your parents were health conscious?

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I spent the majority of my career telling people the reason that they ended up on my table was because their cholesterol was high and they were eating too much fat. I then came to discover that there's a lot of flaws in that reasoning.

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We thought that low fat was going to be the way to health.. and we now have evidence that isn’t the case

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My daughter insisted that she did not miss a session of @synthesischool during a summer road trip This is the future of education.

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The pharmaceutical industry has a large impact on the type of research that gets done and the research that gets published. You can say you need to rely on the data, but you also have to realize where that data is coming from.

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It is very clear that the vast majority of the chronic diseases that we suffer from are related to poor underlying metabolic health.

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@ifixhearts

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When you eat real food that is high in protein, you are going to stop being hungry.

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@ifixhearts

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My role is not to tell them they need heart surgery, it is to educate them on their options and help them choose what's best for them.

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@ifixhearts

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For about $600 you can eat 2 pounds of ground beef and a few eggs a day for the next 90 days. Pair it with some body weight resistance training(free). By Tax Day you will improve your metabolic health, have lower chance of getting ill from viruses and feel much better overall.

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Sugar is directly damaging to the blood vessel wall. So the more sugar you have in your bloodstream, over an extended period of time, the more damage you're going to end up to your blood vessel wall.

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Half of the patients I operate on have normal to low cholesterol levels

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Big Lie #1 ~Saturated fat is bad for you~ In 1948, Proctor and Gamble gave $1 million to the American Heart Association. Then saturated fat became bad, and Crisco (a polyunsaturated fat) became good.

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It's up to you to take control of your health. The system is not going to make you healthy.

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Why do I end up doing heart surgery on so many patients who have a normal cholesterol level and who aren't obviously obese? That question led me to go back to the basic science and to understand the importance of metabolic health.

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Being closed-minded is one of the worst traits that a physician can have.

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Stop what you are doing and watch this now

Grace Price🧬

@travelingenes

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This is a huge day for @X . My documentary, Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness, is finally here. It is only on this platform that I am able to release a film that challenges big food conglomerates and mainstream health claims without fear of censorship. Here is the story of how I, an…

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The pharmaceutical industry has a large impact on the type of research that gets done and the research that gets published. You can say you need to rely on the data, but you also have to realize where that data is coming from.

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When you eat real food that is high in protein, you are going to stop being hungry.

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Hospital food is a daily reminder that the healthcare industry does not prioritize keeping people healthy.

Maria Emmerich

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This is a hospital lunch served to a friend who is battling cancer for the second time. Things need to change. There’s no food served… just chemicals😞 #thingsneedtochange #hospitalfood #cancerawareness

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Here's a common patient that ends up on my operating table Male in his 60s. Diabetic. On a statin for >10 years His LDL is managed per the guidelines. His diabetes and insulin resistance is not adequately addressed. He's been told to eat a low fat diet. The system failed him.

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You think steak is expensive? Try heart surgery.

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Difficult night into morning. Nearly 10 hours of surgery and was unable to save a woman in her 30s who presented after years of untreated hypertension/poor metabolic health with an aortic aneurysm and dissection. Healthcare needs to do better at promoting metabolic health!

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Don't accept the fact that the only solution to your problem is going to be medications, which are going to get worse over time.

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The food industry isn’t concerned about your health The government isn’t concerned about your health The pharmaceutical industry isn’t concerned about your health YOU need to be concerned about your health and find a physician to partner with that will support you

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I spent the majority of my career telling people the reason that they ended up on my table was because their cholesterol was high and they were eating too much fat. I then came to discover that there's a lot of flaws in that reasoning.

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Cholesterol is part of the repair mechanism for the damage that is done by poor metabolic health.

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