Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

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Better health, with better science. Medgeeks teaches the mechanisms underlying chronic disease and the upstream drivers of health, translating the primary literature for clinicians and the curious. Subscribe for new podcasts covering nutrition, movement, sleep, mind-body health, metabolic medicine, and the systems approach to health optimization. Andrew Reid is the founder of Medgeeks, which has trained over 10,000 clinicians since 2013. This podcast is where his clinical work, primary literature deep dives, and self-experimentation become accessible to a broader audience. Andrew's training: - Physician Assistant Program, University of California, Davis - MS in Physician Assistant Studies, AT Still University - MS in Personalized Nutrition, University of Connecticut - Graduate Certificate in Precision Nutrition, University of Connecticut - Didactics in Dietetics, California State University, Los Angeles Learn more about our resources at medgeeks.co

  1. 1d ago

    How much protein do you need? RDA answers the wrong question.

    Built for More: https://health.medgeeks.co/ In this podcast, I cover where the RDA came from, why the nitrogen balance method it's based on undercounts, and what newer research says the real requirement looks like. We'll also get into why the body doesn't need protein at all, and why leucine in particular matters more than total grams. From there, we'll go through how the requirement changes with muscle building, calorie deficits, aging, GLP-1 medications, and illness. Then finish with protein quality, the difference between plant and animal sources, and a few label pitfalls like collagen and amino spiking that make people think they're eating more protein than they are

  2. Aug 28

    Mitochondria, muscle, and aging

    The lifestyle intensive: https://lifestyle.medgeeks.co/ Muscle does more than move you; it helps shape how you age. Explore the connection between exercise, mitochondria, and metabolic health, and learn how staying active helps preserve strength and function over time. "Use it or lose it" starts at the cellular level.

  3. Aug 7

    Are Seed Oils Harmful? What the Evidence Really Says

    The Metabolic Roadmap: https://roadmap.medgeeks.co/ Seed oils may be the most polarized topic in nutrition. One side calls them a primary driver of inflammation, obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic disease. The other points to lower LDL and observational data linking higher linoleic acid levels to better cardiovascular outcomes. So are they harmful? Are they safe? Or is the answer more nuanced than either side wants to admit? Truth is, both sides are wrong. Let's dive in.

  4. Aug 1

    10 Principles That Make Every Diet Argument Irrelevant

    Take the free Metabolic Capacity Assessment: https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/ Work with me: https://medgeeks.co/consult/work-with-me/ Food is more than calories and macros. It supplies the signals and raw materials your body needs to function, repair, and recover. Here are 10 practical nutrition principles for better metabolic health, body composition, and long-term resilience.

  5. Jul 23

    I Stopped Doing Cardio and Lost 50lbs (Do This Instead)

    Free Metabolic Capacity Assessment 👉 https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/ Body Composition Workshop 👉 https://medgeeks.co/workshops/90-day-fat-loss/ I stopped doing cardio and lost 50 pounds. It turned out cardio was never necessary to lose fat or change my body composition. In this podcast, I break down why you don't need cardio for fat loss, and the two things you should focus on instead to lose fat and build muscle.

  6. Jul 15

    Years of metabolic research in 20 minutes (we've been wrong)

    Pro bono mitochondrial disease health coaching: https://medgeeks.co/consult/primary-mitochondrial-disease/ Free metabolic capacity assessment: https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/ We've been looking at chronic disease all wrong. In this video, I distill years of metabolic research into 20 minutes. You'll learn why conditions that look unrelated often share the same root, why your labs can read "normal" while you still don't feel well, and why so many treatments move a marker without actually restoring the person.

  7. Jul 2

    Your Water Fast Is Eating Your Muscle (Do This Instead)

    Free metabolic capacity assessment: https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/ Waitlist to work with me: https://medgeeks.co/consult/work-with-me/ A water-only fast can quietly burn through your own muscle. The fix is a hybrid between the fasting mimicking diet and a protein-sparing modified fast (PSMF). In this podcast I walk through the exact protocol plus the results from my own bloodwork. Most people think fasting is only about cutting calories and dropping weight, but the science says it's doing far more. When researchers tracked a 7-day fast and measured thousands of blood proteins every day, they found the body crosses a threshold around day 3, where more than a thousand proteins shift at once across the brain, joints, heart, and immune system.  The catch is that a straight water fast makes you pay for those benefits with muscle, and dragging restriction out too long can down-regulate your metabolism.  So the real question isn't whether to fast, it's how to fast without losing muscle. I'll break down what a multi-day fast actually does to your body, whether fasting really causes muscle loss, and the protein-sparing approach I've now cycled four times for muscle preservation.  I'm Andrew Reid, founder of Medgeeks. I trained as a physician assistant, hold a graduate degree in nutrition, and have had over 100,000 patient encounters and trained more than 10,000 clinicians in metabolic science. Free metabolic capacity assessment: https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/

  8. Jun 26

    The reason GLP-1s, keto, and calorie restriction aren't working (do this instead)

    Learn more about working with me and join the waitlist: https://medgeeks.co/consult/work-with-me/ You're probably already doing more than you need.   You eat clean. You try to exercise or at least move throughout the day. You try to get good sleep.    Maybe you've even tried tracking your food, tried fasting, tried keto, or even tried a GLP-1.   But here's what almost nobody tells you. The answer isn't more restriction, more intensity, another diet, another protocol, or another supplement stack.    Doing all of this at the wrong time can not only keep you stuck but also set you back.    This was never about doing more. It's about doing the right thing, in the right order, for your body.   In this video, I'll show you the full spectrum, from disease to dysfunction to healthy to resilient. So you can see where you actually stand.   Then we'll run a quick capacity check across the three things your whole metabolism runs on.    So, by the end, you'll know your one constraint. The single thing to fix first, before anything else can move.   You're not lazy. You're not failing. And you don't need to do more.   You just need the right thing, in the right order.  Let's find out where to start. Learn more about working with me and join the waitlist: https://medgeeks.co/consult/work-with-me/

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Better health, with better science. Medgeeks teaches the mechanisms underlying chronic disease and the upstream drivers of health, translating the primary literature for clinicians and the curious. Subscribe for new podcasts covering nutrition, movement, sleep, mind-body health, metabolic medicine, and the systems approach to health optimization. Andrew Reid is the founder of Medgeeks, which has trained over 10,000 clinicians since 2013. This podcast is where his clinical work, primary literature deep dives, and self-experimentation become accessible to a broader audience. Andrew's training: - Physician Assistant Program, University of California, Davis - MS in Physician Assistant Studies, AT Still University - MS in Personalized Nutrition, University of Connecticut - Graduate Certificate in Precision Nutrition, University of Connecticut - Didactics in Dietetics, California State University, Los Angeles Learn more about our resources at medgeeks.co

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