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 256: 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 255: The Most Popular Vitamin Supplement Ever? Micronutrients with Macro Importance - Going Beyond Immunity with Vitamin C
Back to a micronutrient mastery episode, specifically unpacking Vitamin C today. We'll cover how Vitamin C's functions acting as an antioxidant, it's bioavailability, supplementation considerations, …
S 254: How Coaches Should Think About Learning and Development for Optimal Business and Client Results
Short but hopefully impactful episode as I wanted to share two quotes I recently came across that I believe hold a lot of relevance when it comes to the coaching space, specifically on how to view le…
S 253: Oxidative Stress & Antioxidants Part 2: Harnessing the Power of Antioxidants for Client Health and Transformation
Part 2 of our oxidative stress and antioxidant series will cover the solution to oxidative stress… you guessed it. Antioxidants. What are antioxidants, what role do they play, what forms are there, a…
S 252: Oxidative Stress & Antioxidants Part 1: Is Oxidative Stress Sabotaging Your Client's Internal Health and Transformation Goals?
Welcome to Part 1 of a 2 part series covering both oxidative stress and antioxidants. Part 1 will covering the cause, discussing what oxidative stress is, the role of free radicals, hormones, and a s…
S 251: More Than Sleep: Revisiting Melatonin as a Hormone, an Antioxidant, and More!
Melatonin is much more than a supplement for better sleep. While most coaches know this, few know how influential melatonin is to many systems in the body. Today's episode is a melatonin deep dive di…
S 250: Q&A on Hormones: Why do Progesterone and Estrogen Drop Under Stress? Which Clients are Effected by this Pattern?
One very popular question I receive is the relationship between progesterone, estrogen, and stress, specifically why both progesterone and estrogen drop during stress. There's a common misnomer and m…
S 249: Understanding the Limitations of Research, Evidence Based Coaching, and Medicine
Being an "evidence-based" coach is thrown around a lot on Instagram and marketing but do you really know what that means? Are there limitations to the research that currently exists? Is statistical s…
S 248: Macro Troubleshooting: 5 Reasons for Adding Protein to Client Protocols
Wrapping up our macro troubleshooting series, today's episode will cover when to add protein to your client's protocols. We'll talk about when your client's are experiencing hunger issues, if they ar…
S 247: Macro Troubleshooting: 5 Reasons for Adding Fats to Client Protocols
Continuing our series on macro troubleshooting, I wanted to cover the macronutrient fat in this episode. We'll talk about a client's personal preference between fats and carbs, sedentary lifestyle fa…
S 246: Macro Troubleshooting: 7 Reasons for Adding Carbohydrates to Client Protocols
Playing Macro Tetris can be tough at times a coach and many don't have a valid reason for toggling certain macronutrients. In this series, I want to break down carbs, fats, and protein in the context…
S 245: Biohack or Bust - Cold Therapy
Continuing our biohack or bust series, we'll dive into cold therapy and it's physiological effects. We'll discuss shivering vs non-shivering thermogenesis, the role of brown adipose tissue, the timin…
S 244: Biohack or Bust - Heat Therapy
Is biohacking something you should incorporate into your recovery strategy or is it a bust? Welcome to a 2 part series diving into heat and cold therapy and their potential benefits on you and your c…
S 243: 3 Quick Ways to Know if a Diet will Work for your Client
Do you know exactly what diet style will work for your clients? Is there a definite way to know? I want to talk about my 3 M's of dietary decision making for you and/or your clients and the concept t…
S 242: The Most Underrated Aspect of a Client’s Adherence
The most underrated aspect of a client's overall adherence to their transformation journey might surprise you. As coaches, we thrive on confidence and a lot of that confidence comes from our knowledg…
S 241: How to Answer the "How Much is Your Coaching?" Question Effectively
One of the most common questions I hear from coaches receiving in their DM's is, "How much is your coaching?" Reasonable question but, if you're an ethical coach, you should not give out your service…
S 240: The Stress-Immune System Connection: A Deep Dive on Science, Application, and Client Considerations
With the state of the world right now, particularly regarding individual's health, we want to help our client and potential clients the best we can. One of the best ways right now is understanding ho…
S 239: Omega 3's and its Effects on Depression, Mental, and Emotional Health
When we think about the brain, it is 70% and 90% of the Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are DHA. Given that DHA and EPA have been shown to lower inflammation and improve cardiovascular function, …
S 238: The Coach's Morning Routine
Arguably the most popular topic in the personal development world is the importance of a morning routine. I do believe you should have a morning routine that benefits you as a coach and primes you fo…
S 237: HRV 101: An Introduction to Understanding Heart Rate Variability, Nervous System Balance, and Recovery
One of the hot button topics within physiology and specifically in the area of recovery is heart rate variability. The time between heart beats can tell us a lot about how recovered we are from the p…