"cardio is not effective for weight loss why isn't it helping me lose weight it seems like a bit of a head spin there are two reasons number one is bad news isn't it that is bad news Dr Philip lavadia ..."

"left a very young woman and a 30 year old ended up on my operating table and I had to go tell her young children I'm sorry that we weren't able to save your mother was her hot condition preventable ye..."

"doctor ovidia tell me the mission that you're on and also tell me why you chose to pursue that mission so I am on a mission to normalize health I want people to be healthy again and it really was my o..."

"I was walking the same path that so many of my patients had walked down I had family history my grandmother died of heart disease my father has had heart surgery and I knew the path that I was headed ..."

"is truly genetic and the reason that we know this is because human genetics don't change that quickly yet in the past 100 to 150 years we've seen this explosion this epidemic of chronic disease things..."

"uh my Turning Point really came a little bit unexpectedly for me I was actually attending a medical meeting a conference of heart surgeons and uh the speaker one of the guest speakers was a journalist..."

"success and I can sit here now you know eight years later and say that I know that I have truly tackled uh my health challenges and now I can help others to be tackling their health challenges as well..."

"you're not just giving advice right as a medical profession you're also giving medicine what's your perspective on medicine and how has that evolved as you've learned more about what I guess you defin..."

"there's a book in front of me that says stay off my operating table by Philip avadia why did you decide to write this book what Was Your Mission yeah I wrote the book because I struggled to find this ..."

"the food that we eat and so when we eat one of three things is really supposed to happen to that food some of it gets turned immediately into energy for us to fuel all of the activities throughout our..."

"she was eating if they had given her better advice around the food that she could be eating and the impact that this was having on her life that her path could have been changed she was metabolically ..."

"under the age of 50. yeah she was 38. Jesus this is one of the most troubling things that I have seen during my career as a heart surgeon understand that I started my career as a heart surgeon 20 year..."

"too long a Time I was going to ask you earlier on why all of this matters you know sometimes I flick around in my head and I I think well you know if I live to 60 70 you know if I live to 60 but I jus..."

"you know I have that conversation with family members um not infrequently but having that conversation um with children with such a young family members [Music] um I don't know that there's any way to..."

"when you when you go into that that waiting room what do you say I said I'm sorry I said I'm sorry that we weren't able to save your mother I said that your mother came to us came to me with a devasta..."

"is heart disease heart disease is the number one killer here in the United States and worldwide here in the U.S 600 000 people die from heart disease every year about a quarter 25 percent of the death..."

"point in in history where you see correlation between our diets changing and heart disease increasing yeah so here in the United States you know starting right around 1950 there was a sharp increase i..."

"worse so we have to step back and say maybe we were wrong about it being cholesterol that was causing the heart disease in the first place and maybe it was and maybe it was something else uh so you kn..."

"and the way that I look at it is we have to look at what leads to Sugar building up in our bloodstream and this is another important concept to understand because most people think oh well the reason ..."

"okay let's let's look at the what are the markers then that my metabolic health is broken how do I know sat here now because I there's a Girl Scout outside the studio and I just bought some cookies of..."

"pressure so commonly is because it is an indicator of health of metabolic Health specifically some other measurements you can't tell just by looking at yourself you need to get your blood work checked..."

"because we have statistics again here in the United States uh looking at data from 2016 that show that 88 of the adults in the United States are not metabolically healthy so when you look at those fiv..."

"fat on the outside it very well can be and oftentimes the problem with the people who are skinny fat is they don't get picked up on until we're much later in the process until they're much sicker so t..."

"food eating whole real food what is whole real food yeah great question because sometimes it's hard to tell these days yeah uh so the rule that I you know the the kind of rule that I give people aroun..."

"do think that meat animal proteins are essential to human health and yes being a vegan is going to be healthier than eating a diet full of processed food the sort of standard Western diet but I don't ..."

"get on DM me tweet me whatever works for you let me know how you find it I've now been a fuel during Drinker for about four years roughly so much so that I ended up investing in the company and I play..."

"diet over a diet with a lot of processed food and that's really what you see when you look at the scientific literature around vegan diets it's an improvement over the standard American diet but it's ..."

"as long as someone is getting metabolically healthy and staying metabolically healthy on whatever diet they're eating and so I don't I'm not dogmatic I don't tell all my patients you need to be carniv..."

"that scenario you're going to make a bunch of changes hopefully you're successful you lose the 20 pounds and you say great I accomplished my goal now I can go back to what I was doing beforehand becau..."

"a lot of people might be surprised by that yeah so um some of the concepts that I talk about in the book around exercise um the way I uh phrase it is I want you to get more activity um one of the mist..."

"than if we're just trying to do the cardio exercise and burning the extra calories during that time that we are exercising because you say here on page 72 keeping in mind that research shows cardio is..."

"success around that why you know I think that surprises people because you know when I do cardio um I sweat yep and I can feel it just it feels like the fat is melting and it's pouring off my skin so ..."

"again we see that that doesn't work over and over again we know that our body actually adjusts the amount of calories that it burns and if you go and you do that hour at the gym during that hour you'r..."

"is that that muscle is going to be more metabolically active tissue that we're going to have on us all the time so we're going to be burning more calories throughout the day despite you know the activ..."

"protein is to be eating whole real food and is to be continuing to do resistance exercise resistance activities throughout your lifespan and we can actually maintain muscle as we get older one of the ..."

"um many different reasons why that might be but ultimately what I focus on is that in order to be metabolically healthy you need to be getting enough sleep and if you're not getting enough sleep it ve..."

"you no longer so we can never be certain for sure a chapter two of your book you say that there's 12 deadly food lies and you highlight the 12 deadliest of those food lies um one of them we've talked ..."

"towards medication and medicating things and whacking them all once them all read its head versus preventative measures yeah I certainly do get pushback um but um and as you said I am critical of my o..."

"that's um that's pretty much alludes to point number four in your 12 deadliest food lines you say the people who produce our food want us to be healthy you say that's a lie they do not want us to be h..."

"bodies are constantly seeking those nutrients and therefore we find ourselves always hungry and that is the main problem with processed food that we end up taking in an abundance of energy without mee..."

"metabolic processes start to break how could you how good are you at following your own advice um I think I'm pretty good at it these days because I'm giving myself better I'm giving myself better adv..."

"one of the things that I often hear when we have um you know Health experts or doctors or anybody that understands kind of our physiology um our health at a deeper level or is qualified in that depart..."

"know nine years ago when I was morbidly obese Every Girl Scout cookie I ate uh was making me more metabolically unhealthy today uh now that I am metabolically healthy yeah I can have an occasional Gir..."

"feeling like we used to when I think about what the struggle it used to be for me to get through a day as a busy heart surgeon I would be tired all the time I would be in a bad mood I would be hungry ..."

"that certain foods are good certain foods are bad we're at that point now in the kind of public Consciousness as it relates to health where if you walk me through a supermarket I think I'm probably at..."

"yes I do believe it but I am concerned the effort I'm concerned that we have gotten too far down the pathway that we may not be able to truly solve this problem I think ultimately not everyone is goin..."

"left and that I truly believe what do you mean by that I mean that we are literally collapsing under the weight of our own health problems and if we don't change the course in the next 50 years I worr..."

"I get that positive feedback you know they come back and they see me in the office um they are able to express to me their thanks for improving their lives so in the end I know I'm having a net positi..."

"so I really love having these conversations about how we can all do that together and as I said recently I think when I'm speaking to a health expert or speaking thing I'm speaking to Simon sinek I sa..."

"work Philip we have a closing tradition on this podcast you've answered one of our Stitch of questions already but the last guest always leaves a question for the next guest in the diary of the CEO an..."