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
- 836
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
S 516: Motivational Interviewing for Behavior Change, Increased Confidence, Overcoming Resistance, and More!
If you want to upgrade the interactions you have with clients that lead to the behavior change you are both seeking, today's episode is a can't miss. I am going to dive into some of the research and …
S 515: Understanding The Foundational Hierarchy of Importance of Our Nutrition and Health
I believe there's a certain order of operations when it comes to understanding the hierarchy of importance when it comes to our health and our nutrition. In this episode, I want to compare a popular …
S 514: How Mentee Sarah Fechter IFBB Pro Upgraded Her Skillsets and Confidence Through FNMS
One of my currents mentees Sarah Fechter joins me on the podcast to discuss her experience and results with my Functional Nutrition and Metabolism Science Specialization program. She has a very uniqu…
S 513: The Steep Deficit for Fat Loss: Reckless or Responsible? Examining the Rationale for Rapid Fat Loss and Aggressive Caloric Subtraction
Understanding this concept is critical for a client's success and one that is often overlooked. We know that weight loss and fat loss comes from a caloric deficit but how steep a caloric deficit and …
S 512: Step Into Your Potential + Become The Best Coach You Can Be! Rapid Fire Coaching Stories - Ft. Christina, Andy, Joelle, and Alysa
If you've ever been curious about FNMS and the experience inside the program with coaches just like you, I have the episode for you today. I want to share 4 of my FNMS student's experiences with the …
S 511: Fasting Fundamentals Part 2: Fasting and Night Shift Workers, The Healthy Heroes Study, Gut Health Considerations, and More!
Continuing our series on fasting fundamentals, Part 2 will look at more specific population examples, studies, and who should or shouldn't consider fasting. We'll also discuss gut health consideratio…
S 510: Fasting Fundamentals Part 1: Defining Fasting, Fasted vs Fed State Physiology, Types of Fasting, and More!
One of the most hot button topics in the health and nutrition world is the topic of fasting. With it's many forms and potential benefits, it's no wonder why this area is often misunderstood and lacki…
S 509: 5 Small Steps to Better Understanding Metabolism and Hormones: Featured Replay
There are so many connections within our body (physiology, endocrinology, our nervous system, etc) and many times, we tend think of metabolism and hormones in silo's or buckets instead of a fully int…
S 508: How I Help Coaches Like You - Rapid Fire Edition - Featuring Alex, Kayla, Jenna, Jeff, Sarah, and Lamar
An 8 minute rapid fire episode today with a few of my FNMS students and alumni to showcase the wide array of coaches we help at Metabolism School. You've heard me talk a lot about the FNMS program an…
S 507: Learn How These 8 Coaches Became In-Demand Authorities
Our ultimate goal within Metabolism School and the Functional Nutrition and Metabolism Specialization is to help students become in demand coaches and today's episode has 8 excellent examples. I wan…
S 506: 4 Reasons Our Physiology Impacts Our Psychology
One of the classic "chicken" or "egg" debates in the health and fitness world is whether our physiology impacts our psychology or vice versa. In today's episode, I want to give you 4 specific reasons…
S 505: 8 Evidence Based Reasons for Supplementation
There's an arguably overwhelming amount of supplements out on the market and a good amount of them are completely useless and only result in expensive bathroom trips. I don't know about you but I'd l…
S 504: Fighting Fatigue Part 2: Understanding Hormone Issues, Gut Health, Sleep Quality, and More!
Continuing our talk on fatigue, I wanted to quickly recap what we discussed in Part 1 (definitely go check that episode out if you haven't yet). From there, I wanted to explain some of the potential …
S 503: Fighting Fatigue Part 1: Understanding Fatigue, Potential Nutrient Deficiencies, Electrolyte and Dehydration Considerations, and More!
Whether you are a coach or in your own physical transformation, you've probably come across this issue before when it comes to fatigue. If you've went as far as to draw lab work, everything comes bac…
S 502: A Nursing Home Study and Your Coaching Business: The Power of Beliefs and the Placebo Effect
Beliefs are powerful and can influence action and results more than we give it credit for. This concept is apparent in a recent nursing home study I want to share with you and why this applies to you…
S 501: Q&A: Understanding the Relationship Between the HPA-Axis, Cortisol, Adrenals, and Stress
I wanted to tackle one specific question I received recently around the physiological elements of stress. Understanding the relationship between the HPA-Axis, cortisol, and adrenals is vital for clie…
S 500: Reflections After 500 Episodes, 1,000,000 Downloads, and the Future of The Show
A very happy coincidence that these two major milestones fall on the same episode and that is 500 episodes and, as of today, surpassing 1,000,000 downloads. I couldn't be more thankful for you listen…
S 499: Gut Health and Digestion: 3 Tiers of Common Gut Irritants
We discuss a lot of gut health and digestion related content on this platform but I wanted to discuss a specific section around gut health in gut irritants and why elimination style diets exist. We'l…
S 498: Are All Thyroid Issues Due to Metabolic Adaptation? Examining the Gut-Thyroid Axis, Chronic Stress Considerations, Systemic Inflammation Consequences, and More!
Today's entire Q&A will focus around the question, "are all thyroid issues due to metabolic adaptation?" It's a very interesting and thought provoking question and we'll look at this from several dif…
S 497: Examining The Potential Benefits of Diets Breaks Through a Recent Study, Study Details and Population Considerations, Commentary and Analysis, and More!
Diet breaks became an effective tool in the coaches toolkit a few years ago and has gained popularity ever since but what do we know from the literature on this subject? Those in the field including …