Cardiac imaging expert Kim Mischo spent 20 years inside the cardiology machine — running nuclear stress tests that told patients they were fine, then watching some of those patients have heart attacks the following week. She knew the system was broken long before she could prove it.

Now she can prove it.

A non-invasive scan exists that can detect coronary artery disease at 5% blockage — before symptoms, before a stress test would ever flag anything. It's been guideline-recommended since 2021. It's 99% accurate. And insurance won't cover it.

The reason why is the part of this conversation that will stay with you.

Dr. Philip Ovadia and Kim Mischo walk through the technology, the economics, and the quiet institutional logic that keeps a life-saving diagnostic tool out of reach for most Americans — while a far less accurate, far more expensive alternative continues to dominate cardiology practices nationwide.

This is a conversation about what early detection of heart disease could look like, and why it doesn't yet.

BIG IDEA

Between 50 and 60 percent of patients die from their first heart attack — which means the insurance company never had to pay a single claim related to their coronary disease.

Kim Mischo Contact Info:
Website: https://clearheartandlung.com/

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WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

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Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

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Martha Carlin wasn't a scientist when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 44. She was an auditor — trained to follow the evidence wherever it leads, and to never take anything at face value. That discipline took her somewhere medicine hadn't yet looked: the gut.

What she found over the next two decades reframes how we understand not just Parkinson's, but chronic constipation, cancer, metabolic disease, sleep, cravings, and the quiet collapse of human health since World War II. The microbiome isn't a side conversation — it may be the whole conversation.

This episode traces one woman's obsessive, rigorous, grief-fueled investigation into what's really living inside us, what we've done to destroy it, and whether we can get it back. The answers are more specific — and more actionable — than you might expect.

BIG IDEA

The gut is not a digestive accessory — it is a pharmacological ecosystem that governs your brain, your immune system, your cravings, and possibly the trajectory of every major chronic disease you will ever face.

Contact Information: Martha Carlin
Websites:
Biotiquest - https://biotiquest.com/
The Bio Collective - https://www.thebiocollective.com/
Open Biome - https://openbiome.org/

Books from Martha Carlin :
"Connected" - https://amzn.to/4eMHNmL
"My Search for the Perfect Poop" - https://amzn.to/492PJwx

References:
"Missing Microbes" by Martin J. Blaser: - https://amzn.to/4wwyIEK

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

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Most people trying to get healthier are losing a battle they don't know they're fighting. It's not a lack of information. It's not even a lack of effort. It's something quieter — the stories running beneath the surface, the environments they've stopped noticing, the split-second decisions that feel small until they're not.

Martin Silva has spent 20 years coaching people out of the patterns that keep them stuck. A former competitive natural bodybuilder who hit the aesthetic ceiling and found it hollow, he now works with high-achievers in their 40s and 50s — people who are disciplined in every area of life except this one.

In this conversation, Martin unpacks the real architecture of lasting change: why willpower always fails, how your circle quietly shapes your body, why doing less in the gym often produces more, and what it actually takes to stop starting over.

The information was never the problem.

BIG IDEA

It's way easier to avoid temptation than it is to resist it — and no one gets healthy by relying on willpower.

Martin Silva - Contact Info
Website: OptimiseYourBody.com
Podcast: Martin Silva Fitness
Instagram: Martin Silva Fitness

Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

WEBSITE: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

Ready to take control of your health? Grab Dr. Ovadia’s brand new book Stay Off My Kitchen Table now!

This isn’t just another diet book; it reveals why it’s not just what you eat, but what your body actually absorbs that determines your health.

If you’re struggling with low energy, stubborn weight, or feeling like “healthy eating” isn’t working… this book shows you exactly how to fix it.

• Learn how to reset your gut
• Eliminate hidden foods sabotaging your progress
• Unlock real energy, metabolism, and longevity

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action today. Get your copy of Stay Off My Kitchen Table now.

Learn More:

• Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
• Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health

Theme Song : Rage Against
Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
(c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.