How to Manage Your Heart Health with Dr. Ovadia | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #60

[stef]

Heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia joins Ray on the show today to discuss the most important topics from Ovadia's book, Stay Off My Operating Table. The cholesterol controversy, diagnostic testing, blood panel specifics, and other areas of interest related to avoiding heart disease are reviewed in as much detail as an hour show allows.

If you'd like to hear the conversation continued, let us know, and we'll invite him back on the show.

• 01:17 - Stay Off My Operating Table
• 06:37 - The standard of practice
• 10:28 - Why are there so many sick people? / Being red-pilled
• 13:19 - How do I take back control of my health?
• 18:31 - Don't overeat if you're not using the energy
• 19:27 - Most common patient
• 24:13 - 5 basic levels of metabolic health
• 27:48 - Metabolic syndrome
• 33:59 - Sugar is damaging to the bloodstream
• 39:49 - Efficiency is important
• 45:30 - Calcium score
• 50:34 - Preventative heart surgery
• 53:57 - Insulin resistance
• 59:30 - Red blood cell count
• 01:03:09 - Distinction between polycythemia and secondary erythrocytosis
• 01:06:40 - The body is a complicated system

[Flying_tiger]

Part 2 please ! Great discussion (and I’d hate to be on the other end of a discussion with Ray when he’s fired up)

[Ray Gillenwater]

Part 2 please ! Great discussion (and I’d hate to be on the other end of a discussion with Ray when he’s fired up)

Thanks for the feedback. Since we recorded this episode, I've decided to bring the SS Gyms podcast to a close around the end of the year. I should've made this a two-hour episode.

And not to worry, I am passionate but mostly friendly!

[jwbucha]

Thanks for the feedback. Since we recorded this episode, I've decided to bring the SS Gyms podcast to a close around the end of the year. I should've made this a two-hour episode.

And not to worry, I am passionate but mostly friendly!

Ray, question for you after listening to this. Have you come across a place in the Pacific NW that offers self pay calcium scans? These types of procedures seem to be rare without a referral. Especially for men under 40. I’m about an hour south of you in Mountain Home.

[Ray Gillenwater]

Ray, question for you after listening to this. Have you come across a place in the Pacific NW that offers self pay calcium scans? These types of procedures seem to be rare without a referral. Especially for men under 40. I’m about an hour south of you in Mountain Home.

I searched around a bit and found that St. Luke's offers them. Hopefully that's helpful.

[jwbucha]

I searched around a bit and found that St. Luke's offers them. Hopefully that's helpful.

Thanks. I saw that as well but under the assumption they would not allow access without a doctors referral. I’ll reach out and see what they say.

[SFB]

Thanks for the feedback. Since we recorded this episode, I've decided to bring the SS Gyms podcast to a close around the end of the year. I should've made this a two-hour episode.

And not to worry, I am passionate but mostly friendly!

I hope you continue doing a podcast or vlog in some form.

[Ray Gillenwater]

I hope you continue doing a podcast or vlog in some form.

That's nice to read, thank you.

[JFord]

Thanks. I saw that as well but under the assumption they would not allow access without a doctors referral. I’ll reach out and see what they say.

They may charge you LESS if you’re self-pay and can find an employee who has the authority to bend the price schedule. Sometimes they’ll even advertise the actual price differential!

You may have look for fine print in their ads for this.

By the way, this negotiation business is advice I give to anyone who doesn’t have insurance. I know many docs who are willing to cut deals with patients who offer to pay cash.

I’ve seen this phenomena specifically with calcium score studies.

[Sib]

Thanks for the feedback. Since we recorded this episode, I've decided to bring the SS Gyms podcast to a close around the end of the year. I should've made this a two-hour episode.

And not to worry, I am passionate but mostly friendly!

This was a great podcast. I hope you’ll consider bringing it back for guest episodes when you have someone with something particularly useful to say like in this one.