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A 22-Year-Old Athlete and a Form Nobody Would Sign (Mystery Case)
Episode 421
A 22 year old soccer player with no symptoms walks into a clinic for a routine sports physical and walks out being told to quit his sport.
Dr. Baraki …
23 hours ago
Sunday Morning Protocol 2049: A Halloween Story About Optimization
Episode 420
A Halloween story about a man who does every wellness protocol, then an honest grading of each one. Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum tells the story of Dale Mer…
6 days, 23 hours ago
How Much Cardio Should You Do? How Much is Too Much?
Episode 419
How much cardio should you do, and does more of it ever become harmful? Cardiorespiratory fitness keeps improving with training load and nobody has f…
2 weeks ago
How Much Lifting is Enough? How Much is Too Much?
Episode 418
How much resistance training do you actually need, and is there a point where more stops helping? We trace the "lift weights twice a week" recommenda…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Where did the advice to not lift heavy weights come from?
Episode 417
Nearly every warning you've heard about lifting weights was written down before anybody checked it. We trace where those warnings came from, starting…
1 month ago
Is It Safe to Train When the Air Is Full of Wildfire Smoke?
Episode 416
Parts of the country now get a few weeks of wildfire smoke every year, and the obvious question is whether there is a point where the air is bad enou…
1 month, 1 week ago
Do You Need a Calorie Surplus to Build Muscle? | Dr. Eric Helms
Episode 415
Most lifters have been told they need to eat in a Calorie surplus to build muscle. That rule has always come with a list of exceptions: unless you're…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is Obesity A Muscle Problem?
Episode 414
Muscle is where most of the glucose goes, and muscle insulin resistance is the first thing that breaks on the road to type 2 diabetes. Both of those …
2 months ago
Who Needs Testosterone, and Who's Not Getting It I Signal Episode 4
Episode 413
Most men who start testosterone never needed it, and some who genuinely do never get treated. In the final episode of the Signal series, Dr. Jordan F…
2 months, 1 week ago
Your Fat Has a Storage Limit
Episode 412
In 2004 a surgeon removed about ten kilograms of fat from fifteen women and measured everything that mattered. Nothing improved. Four years later, it…
2 months, 2 weeks ago