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 236: Reexamining Energy Expenditure and Why It Matters for Your Clients
A new study is hot off the press on energy compensation and adiposity, showing yet another reason why it's important to understand the relationship between macros, metabolism, and hormones. I'll cove…
S 235: Functional Nutrition & Metabolism Science Specialization Coach Success Stories
I wanted to share with you a few success stories from coaches just like you who struggled with some of the same areas you may be currently and how the Functional Nutrition and Metabolism Science Spec…
S 234: A Surprising Study on Women and Birth Control that Coaches Should Know
There's been few hotter topics in the health and fitness industry than women's health and women's hormones. An important subtopic of that is the role of contraceptives on women who are trying to buil…
S 233: The Flip Side of Metabolic Adaptation
Wanted to provide you another angle or lens when it comes to looking at metabolic adaptation and the physiological processes that occur. If you haven't listened to Episode 229. Energy Management and …
S 232: Female Physiology: Menstrual Cycle Nutrition
Today's episode centers around the interplay between macros, calories, and the menstrual cycle. This is an advanced concept and level of understanding of changing macros and nutrition around the mens…
S 231: Leaving a Lasting Legacy as a Coach
Often times, coaches think leaving their legacy is determined solely on the transformations of their clients and while that is important, there is more to legacy than just the physical results. A men…
S 230: 5 Reasons to Use Biofeedback in Your Coaching Business
You know how big of a fan I am of biofeedback and how important I believe it is to the client transformation process. I want to give you 5 reasons in no particular order of importance why biofeedback…
S 229: Energy Management and Fuel Homeostasis- Understanding Fasting and Feeding, Fed vs Fasted State Physiology, The Role of Insulin, Glucagon, and More!
Sometimes we as fitness and nutrition coaches get so caught up in diet styles like intermittent fasting, paleo, keto, or carb cycling that we gloss over how the endocrine system works and the idea of…
S 228: Why Good Coaching Never Goes Out of Style
I see so many coaches dealing with shining object syndrome when it comes to trying to grow their coaching business. Tik Tok, Clubhouse, Reels are now all the rage. What never will go out of style is …
S 227: Protein Overview, Animal Protein Sources, Vegan and Vegetarian Considerations, and Protein Supplementation
If protein is your favorite macronutrient, you're in for a treat today. Today's episode is all on protein from its molecular structure, sources, daily recommended amount for different individuals, th…
S 226: Q&A: Nutritional Periodization and Birth Control, Building, Burning, and Break Phases, Optimal Carbohydrate Consumption Pre and Post Workout, and More...
Back with another Q&A for your hump day and I received some great questions I don't believe I have addressed on the show including nutritional periodization and birth control, optimal carbohydrate co…
S 225: Longevity and Blue Zones
There's a difference between life span and health span. Quality matters when it comes to the human existence and today's episode centers around the study of longevity and areas of the world known as …
S 224: Stress Management Principles
We often tell clients to manage their stress but what does that even mean? What does that practically look like? Today's episode is a practical deep dive into strategies and tactics that you and your…
S 223: The Cardinal Rules for Fat Loss
The metabolic adaptation episode was so well received (highly recommend listening to it if you haven't yet) that we are back with a similar type class episode covering every aspect and angle I could …
S 222: Perception, Placebo Effect, and the Difference between Involvement and Enrollment
I want to share a very interesting study by Dr. Alia J. Crum and Ellen J. Langer titled, "Mind-set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect". The specifics of the study is shared in the episode but m…
S 221: Sleep as a Cornerstone of a Body Transformation and Overall Fat Loss
As you probably know if you're a coach or you've listened to a few episodes of this show, sleep quality and quantity is important to you overall health but did you know it affects fat loss, immune ac…
S 220: Understanding Metabolic Adaptation
I've covered this area in similar episodes in the past but this episode plays specifically into mitigating metabolic adaptation and understanding that transcend changes happen within a diet phase and…
S 219: The 2 Areas that Never Change in the Health and Fitness Coaching Space
As science evolves and we learn more and more about the human body, the tactics you learn from a hypertrophy standpoint or new microbiome research for instance will change your coaching methodology. …
S 218: Beyond the Bathroom: Use this Fiber Deep Dive for Health, Safety, and Longevity
Similar to our micronutrient mastery series, I wanted to cover fiber in a similar fashion as it's vital to many areas of health and longevity. We'll cover everything fiber from the 4 types of fiber, …
S 217: The Truth about Cheat Meals
"Cheat" meals have a strong presence in the fitness and nutrition space and I believe it needs a reframe if we truly want to optimize the transformation process. Let's be honest… it's a high caloric …