Hungry for Change · Episode 39 · Eat
CONFESSIONS OF A HEART SURGEON: HOW TO STAY OFF MY OPERATING TABLE | Dr. Philip Ovadia | Niklas Gustafson
With Dr. Philip Ovadia
Heart disease usually starts long before the chest pain.
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Heart disease usually starts long before the chest pain.
That’s what Dr. Philip Ovadia learned after performing over 3,000 heart surgeries.
Most people arrive at the operating table thinking it was bad luck, bad genes, or something that came out of nowhere.
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But the signs were there for years.
Today we get into what people miss, why “normal” tests can still leave you in danger, what cholesterol does and doesn’t tell you, and how to stay off a heart surgeon’s table in the first place.
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