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 055: Is Your Doctor or Coach Legit?
Your doctor might be a super-intelligent, nice, heartwarming individual... but are they legit? At the end of the day, your health matters above all else and you want to rely on someone who knows how …
S 054: Fasted vs Fed Cardio?
A great question I received from a mentee sparked today's topic on the fasted vs fed cardio myth or debate. I had a great response from the calories vs hormones episode and this is a hot button topic…
S 053: Intermittent Fasting
When should you use fasting and intermittent fasting and is it for everyone? I got a question from a good friend about a client she had and I wanted to take this opportunity to give you a real-world …
S 052: What is Evidence Based Coaching?
I see the term "evidence-based coaching" thrown around a lot within the online fitness and nutrition space. I want to take this episode to explain some of the misconceptions. It's not all about using…
S 051: The Food Code Q&A Replay
I love being able to provide you with these Q&A replays, this one coming from the Food Code Podcast, because they get such great feedback and different people are asking different questions to expand…
S 050: The Supplement Summary
Curious about what supplements to take? If you are a coach as well you get this question a lot too. While I have discussed this topic on other podcasts, I wanted to take this episode to discuss suppl…
S 049: Perspective, Personal Responsibility, and Having an Aspirational Identity | with Brad Jensen
Champ's dad, Brad Jensen, Owner of Key Nutrition and one of my closest friends, is on the podcast today not to discuss his story which he has on other shows and platforms but about perspective. Pers…
S 048: Mind over Macros Replay
We had such great feedback from this episode from yours truly (MJ) and Mike Millner (Pippen) that I wanted to share this episode with my audience as well. If you are wondering why I'm calling myself …
S 047: The Great Calories vs Hormones Debate
It's time to settle the debate so you have the best information for your clients or for your own transformation. Is it all calories in calories out? Is it all based on your hormones? Like any good ev…
S 046: The Truth about Cholesterol
Just the word Cholesterol brings up a lot of mixed emotions and knowledge for a lot of individuals so it is time to pull back the curtain and reveal the truth about this subject. Whether you are a co…
S 045: Transitioning From In-Person to Online Coaching
I had a great question from my Instagram Q&A that I wanted to cover in a long-form fashion and that is the transition from in-person fitness and nutrition coaching to online. While there are concrete…
S 044: Living Lean Q&A Replay
Today's episode is a special replay from a podcast episode I was a guest on with Jeremiah Bair, host of the Living Lean podcast. Those who are new to this podcast will get an in-depth look into my st…
S 043: A Story about Precision
Having a tap-like approach to fitness coaching... what do I mean? Well, you'll have to listen to this short episode and a very important story I have for you. Whether you are on your own fitness jour…
S 042: The Importance of Maintenance Phases and Reverse Dieting
Spanning off of the conversation with Sue and Alex Bush from Physique Development discussing the diet before the diet, I wanted to go more in-depth when it comes to the importance of maintenance phas…
S 041: Neurotransmitters in Nine Minutes
Even though it is not 9 minutes with the intro and outro included, there are two reasons I wanted this episode to be 9 minutes. First alliteration. Second, we can get into the deep weeds when it come…
S 040: Hormonal Responses to Training and Exercise
Generally speaking, movement is good for our hormones. However, from an evolutionary perspective, we do very different activities and types of exercise and training compared to our ancestors and prev…
S 039: Cortisol Patterns and Awakening Response
I wanted to cover cortisol awakening response and cortisol patterns especially in terms of shift work in this episode because I know a lot of you have clients who work third shift. Given what is stil…
S 038: Biggest Mistakes in the Fitness and Nutrition Industry
Although there is a wealth of quality knowledge and information in the fitness and nutrition space, knowledge doesn't always mean it's being practiced. Today's episode is identifying the biggest mist…
S 037: The Synopsis of Serotonin
Right now is a perfect time to discuss serotonin given its importance not only in our physiological health but our psychological health as well. You and your clients should be readily informed of thi…
S 036: The Basics of Labs and Blood Work
While the topic of labs and blood work might require a multi-part series to cover them extensively, I want to do my best to set the foundation and give you an overview for you and your clients. I als…