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 416: Coaching Perspective Check: Mistakes Coaches Make with New Science, Nutrigenomics, and More!
The new sexy things coming out like genetics testing and nutrigenomics are easy to market but are they a scam? I was recently chatting in the DM's about genetics and nutrition and wanted to share wha…
S 415: Belief Effects Revisited in the Transformation Process
If you're an OG listener or follower, back in the day I introduced a framework called the P3 model. One of those P's stands for Perception and I wanted to revisit that, specifically a recent milkshak…
S 414: The Reality of Nutrition Books, Opinion and Anecdote vs Evidence Based, and My Upcoming Book Metabolism Made Simple
Whether you're a coach or in your own transformation, you've probably been recommenced a nutrition book. Typically, these books follow a specific diet style or someone's N=1 experience which is great…
S 413: Does Metabolic Adaptation Actually Hold You or Your Clients Back From Losing Weight?
Taking a different angle on metabolic adaptation looking through the lens of weight loss. I have many episodes on this platform covering this topic but not exclusively discussing it's impacts on weig…
S 412: FNMS Case Study: Fitness Trends & More To The Mainstream Health Story with Garrett GQ Query
I am joined today by one of the very first indiviuals to recognize me out in the wild from the podcast then turned client Garrett GQ Query of Intentional Strength. I've been able to see Garrett grow …
S 411: The Nuances of Anti-Inflammatory Supplements, Mechanisms of Inflammation, Examining Anti-Inflammatory Practices, and More!
When are anti-inflammatory supplements, drugs, and practices appropriate and not appropriate? What are the mechanisms of inflammation to understand when to use anti-inflammatory invention? If you rec…
S 410: Junk Volume, Wasted Time with Training, and Improving Overall Results with Your Health and Transformation
You might be spending more time in the gym than necessary and it's hurting your gains and overall results. My team and I have seen this many times when clients come in that are metabolically adapted,…
S 409: Glucose Disposal Agents: The Why and Benefits, Micronutrient Considerations, Women's Health and PCOS, and More!
Glucose Disposal Agents or GDA's are another tool in the coaching toolbox we need to be aware of and use appropriately whether on our own or our client's transformation. There is some confusion aroun…
S 408: Is There Really Such Thing as Cheap Food?
Does cheap food really exist and how much does the quality of our food matter? While it's one factor to consider as I'll discuss in today's episode, I also want to share the agriculture perspective t…
S 407: Risk Factors for Over Supplementation: Evaluating RDA and Supplementation, Fat Soluble vs Water Soluble Vitamins, Iron and Herbal Supplementation, and More!
Are there risks to over supplementation with you or your clients? I've seen many cases where coaches have loaded up their clients on varies supplements and not taking into consideration the potential…
S 406: Team Calories vs Team Hormones: Does a Middle Ground Exist? What Lies Between the Extremes
The internet war rages on between team calories and team hormones and it's time for me to step in and give you guys the truth. I'm tired honestly of it all and if you've been a listener for any lengt…
S 405: Coaching Business Advice That Doesn't Suck: Skills Before Dollars and Lessons Learned from Birthday Parties
Imagine for a second a piñata at a birthday party. Children (and some adults) lining up to strike the piñata with a stick in hopes of reaping the rich rewards inside. Does the candy fall out after th…
S 404: Q&A Post Workout Recovery and Nutrition, Cutting Strategies in Controlled Weight Classes, Body Temperature Tracking, and More on The Daru Strong Podcast
Recently joined Phil Daru on The Daru Strong Podcast and he asked a lot of great questions I'm not typically asked around post-workout nutrition, body temperature tracking, strategy for female fighte…
S 403: Calories, Hormones, and Macronutrient Composition: A New 2022 Study Review and Implications on Post-Diet Changes in Appetite and Overall Client Transformation
A recent 2022 study revealed an interesting connection between neurological reward and obesity and wanted to share the study and my thoughts on this platform. We'll take a look at the fat vs carbs de…
S 402: Summer of Science Giveaway Winners Announced!
Short Saturday episode to announce our winners of the Summer of Science Giveaway! Thank you to everyone who submitted their reviews it is greatly appreciated and we look forward to bringing you more …
S 401: The Battle of the Food Tracking Apps: The Best Tracking App You and Your Clients Aren't Using - Head to Head Challenge on Macros, Micros, and More!
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 400: The Early Microbiome: Gut Health, Childhood Development, Auto-Immunity, Cognitive Health, and More!
Gut health as you probably know is becoming more and more popular in the health and fitness space but we don't often talk about the connection between infancy and early childhood and the microbiome. …
S 399: How Does Stress Affect Appetite? Understanding Overeating and Appetite Suppression Due to Stress From a Recent Study
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 398: Leveraging Life Experiences to Becoming a Better Coach and Health Professional: 3 Impactful Stories That Changed My Coaching Career
I typically don't share a lot of personal stories or experiences but I thought these 3 particular stories from my past would be valuable for you. I'm a product of mentorship and, roughly adding all I…
S 397: Q&A: Diet Phase Duration Before Making Changes, TDEE and Calculating Energy Balance, Frequency of Testing and Cost Considerations, and More!
Thought it was about time for another Q&A and this episode is very tactical and action oriented covering everything from nutrition protocols to energy balance to testing. Topics and questions include…