Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day

by Philip Ovadia

Metabolic health refers to the body’s ability to properly use food for fuel, growth, and repair, and to store energy for periods of lower food availability. Loss of metabolic health leads to many chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, fatty liver disease, gallstones, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), obstructive sleep apnea, gout, and more.