Sam Miller Science
A Podcast Designed to Bridge the Gap Between Macros, Metabolism, and Functional Medicine. Here we focus on translating complex concepts into leverage for your health, fitness, and nutrition goals with a special emphasis on content for coaches & health professionals.
Sam Miller is a best-selling author in the field of nutrition and metabolism has more than 15 years of experience as a health, fitness, and nutrition coach. His programs help coaches and health professionals improve their clients’ results. A popular online educator, podcast host, and mentor, he consistently offers simple, strategic methods for transformation and translates complex concepts into leverage for any health and fitness goal.
His workshops, classes, and specialization programs have served over 2,500 coaches worldwide. He has been a featured speaker for companies like LinkedIn and a content contributor for industry titans such as Barbell Shrugged, Muscle Intelligence, T-Nation, Elite FTS, Active Life Rx, and more. He is a certified nutritionist and licensed, board-certified health practitioner who holds a master’s degree from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science from Elon University.
If you’re here welcome to the community! We share the goal of learning all of the things pertaining to health, nutrition, performance and physique optimization without being a d*ck about it. You will find that many of our episodes integrate concepts and coaching ideas from common nutrition/fitness industry practices as well as functional medicine, and alternative health.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 835
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
S 615: Protein and The Upper Limit on Gains: A New Study Examining Protein Intake, Anabolic Response, Muscle Protein Synthesis, and More!
Is the 25-40g of protein per meal max a thing of the past? In a very recent article that released this month, "The Anabolic Response to Protein Ingestion During Recovery from Exercise Has No Upper Li…
S 614: Navigating Emotions Around the Holidays: Understanding Guilt, Shame, and Regret and Remembering Our Values and Goals
It can be easy this time of year for our goals and standards to take a backseat temporarily and, with that, comes the potential for negative emotions and I've felt these all too well in my past as w…
S 613: Avoiding the Marketing Scams and The Quick Fix Approach To Your Health and Coaching Business
I don't know about you, but as someone who has been in this industry a decade plus, the marketing this time of year is vexing. Whether it's your health or your coaching business, the "quick" approach…
S 612: Adaptogen Masterclass: How Adaptogens Work, Mitigating Stress and Homeostasis, Popular Adaptogens, and More!
As more and more marketing is put into the supplement industry, we've seen the rise and popularity of adaptogens and for good reason in most cases. These adaptogens have solid research behind them an…
S 611: 10 Key Considerations to Optimize Your “Separation Season” and Set Your Business Up for a Thriving 2024
With a handful of days left in 2023, this can be your "take the foot off the gas and rest" season or it can be your "separation season" allowing the opportunity to work on specific aspects in your bu…
S 610: Understanding the Effects of Menopause, Stages, Sleep and Hormonal Changes, and More!
Even if your coaching practice predominately serves women from 20-35, this is still an important episode for you from a multitude of perspectives. Today's episode will be covering menopause in women,…
S 609: Should You Delete MyFitnessPal? The Battle of the Food Trackers & The Best Tools for Tracking in 2024
MyFitnessPal has dominated in digital food tracking for years but did you know there's an alternative? An alternative that may be superior to MFP? Today's episode is a breakdown between MyFitnessPal …
S 608: Ozempic: Miracle Drug or Giant Mistake? Exploring the GLP-1's Rise in Popularity, Physiological Considerations, My Honest Thoughts, and More!
You've probably heard by now or come across the injection semaglutide known by its brand name Ozempic. Is it the miracle drug that tout it to be or is it a giant mistake for individual's long term h…
S 607: Chat-GPT and Health Coaching: Is AI Replacing Coaches? My Honest Thoughts and How To Use AI Tools Most Effectively In Your Business
The first version of Chat-GPT came out around this time last year and it was all anyone wanted to talk about for awhile. Even with it's newest version of GPT-4, I still don't believe it's ready to re…
S 606: The Truth about Red Meat (Part 2): Micronutrient Considerations, Performance and Gut Health Considerations, and More!
Wrapping up our truth about red meat series, I wanted to discuss some specific considerations along with first discussing some baseline health benefits and basics. We'll also micronutrient and sport …
S 605: The Truth about Red Meat (Part 1): Red Meat Myth Busting, Misconceptions in the Mainstream Nutrition Conversation, Grass Fed vs Grain Fed Considerations, and More!
One of the most hot button topics in the current nutrition conversation landscape is the red meat industry from a variety of different perspectives from environmental to physiological. I want to brin…
S 604: The Ultimate Guide to Creatine
Creatine is one of if not the most most studied supplement on the planet and yet despite the amount of data and research we have, it still has its myths and misconceptions. We'll discuss the role and…
S 603: Principles of Metabolism and Hormones Part 3: The Great Calories vs Hormones Debate Explained
Finishing up our Principles of Metabolism and Hormones series, I want to recap what we have covered so far, explain why past decisions affect future decisions, and demystify the calories vs hormones …
S 602: Principles of Metabolism and Hormones Part 2: Defining Metabolism
Part 2 of our 3 Part Principles of Metabolism and Hormones series covers the definition of metabolism. We discuss the actual scientific definition of metabolism, the role of metabolic adaptation, why…
S 601: Principles of Metabolism and Hormones Part 1: Hormones 101
Foundational knowledge is key to a successful transformation either in your own life or your client's lives and I wanted to bring you a principle series as we head into the last month of 2023 so you'…
S 600: 4 Years of Sam Miller Science: My Top Lessons from Recording 600 Shows + A Special Announcement for the Year Ahead to Celebrate the Anniversary
Today's episode marks a few key milestones including episode 600 and roughly our 4 year anniversary so I wanted to share some of my top lessons and takeaways throughout this podcasting journey. I als…
S 599: Stress Essentials Part 5: Cortisol's Impact on Nutrient Status, Stress Effects on Vitamin and Mineral Depletion, Gut Nutrient Absorption, and More!
We discuss the topic of stress a lot on this show for good reason. This is a large issue in our modern society and one that impacts our physical goals along with reaching our potential physically, me…
S 598: Stress Essentials Part 4: A Practical Look at Stress Management & The Physiology of Stress
Continuing our Stress Essentials series, I wanted to bring you a practical longer form discussion style episode devoted to the topic of stress management and the physiology of stress. I recently join…
S 597: Stress Essentials Part 3: The Stress-Appetite Connection, Understanding Overeating, Appetite Suppression Due to Stress, and More!
One important consideration we need to keep in mind as coaches or someone on their own transformation journey is the role of stress and how this affects appetite and following a given nutrition proto…
S 596: Stress Essentials Part 2: Does Stress Make You Fat? And The Science of Cortisol Induce Insulin Resistance
Continuing our Stress Essentials series, today's epsiode we'll discuss stress and potential weight gain. Can stress make you fat? Is there more to fain gain than a calorie surplus? We'll talk about s…