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269: A Doctor Says Medicine Is Built to Manage Sickness, Not Cure It - Dr. Sean O'Mara

2026-09-2901:00:33

Dr. Sean O'Mara scans hearts for a living, but not the way most cardiologists do. He measures the ring of fat wrapped around the heart muscle itself, a structure most physicians were never trained to look for and few insurance codes account for. In this conversation, O'Mara walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through a case that reframes what fasting, the microbiome, and the body's own signaling chemistry can accomplish in a matter of days, not months. He explains why the fat around the he...

268 - Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Statins, Stents, COVID Risks and Joining iFix Hearts

2026-09-2201:02:36

Dr. Aseem Malhotra relates his path from mainstream interventional cardiology to challenging the mainstream's cholesterol hypothesis. Malhotra explains: why biased research funding misleads doctors and patients about statin benefits and harmswhy most coronary stents don’t prevent heart attacks or extend life outside acute situationswhy medicine is not an exact sciencethe "Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Myth"His awakening over vaccine injury riskCensorship in medicineThe changing culture of c...

267: Stephen Hussey Survived a Heart Attack and Wants Answers to Questions the Hospital Evaded

2026-09-1501:02:20

A 34-year-old functional medicine practitioner had every marker doctors look for: a zero calcium score, clean metabolic labs, a lean and active build. Six months later he had a widowmaker heart attack with a total blockage and no plaque anywhere else in his arteries. In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Hussey walks Jack Heald and Dr. Philip Ovadia through what happened after the stent, the questions the hospital would not answer, and the research he pursued once he left. That research led him t...

266: Dr. Eric Berg - The 9 Environments Making You Sick

2026-09-0854:13

Most chronic physical and mental health problems trace back to "ancestral mismatch" — the gap between the ancient environment our biology was shaped by and the modern, overly convenient one we now live in. Dr. Berg's book breaks this mismatch into nine trackable "environments" (food, social, light, work, cognitive, etc.) and argues that fixing willpower isn't the answer — redesigning your surroundings is. NOTABLE QUOTE "Change your environment one time and make it easy for you to succeed." — ...

265: He Developed Diabetes Running 50 Miles a Week - Dr. Tim Noakes

2026-09-0101:08:30

For decades, Professor Tim Noakes told the world that carbohydrate-loaded muscles were the secret to endurance performance. He built a career on it, wrote a bestselling running manual around it, and trained a generation of athletes to believe it. Then, standing at a podium, he tore the nutrition chapter out of his own book. In this conversation with Dr. Philip Ovadia, the South African physiologist traces a personal reckoning that began with an unlikely diagnosis: type 2 diabetes, arrived at ...

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