Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Why do we get tired? The afternoon crash usually isn't sleep, age, or laziness. It comes down to your metabolic capacity: your body's ability to produce energy, manage it, and recover from the demands placed on you. In this video, I break down the real biology of fatigue, from mitochondria and metabolic flexibility to insulin and why caffeine stops working, and how you can actually change it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Why your mitochondria set your energy ceiling, not your willpower
• How you can carry thousands of calories of fuel and still crash
• Insulin, Randle's glucose-fatty acid cycle, and afternoon brain fog
• The adenosine mechanism behind caffeine, and why the 3rd coffee fails
• How recovery, HRV, and mitochondrial biogenesis rebuild capacity

My name is Andrew Reid, and I'm the founder of Medgeeks. For 15 years, I've worked on two sides of the same problem: caring for patients and clients directly, and teaching the science of metabolism to the clinicians who treat them. I've had 100,000+ patient/client encounters, and 50,000+ people read my emails daily to get a handle on their metabolic health. Welcome to the Medgeeks community!

Training:

• Physician Assistant, UC Davis
• MS in Personalized Nutrition, University of Connecticut
• Precision Nutrition, University of Connecticut
• Dietetics, Cal State LA

My cardiologist ran a full cardiac workup (MRI, stress test, ambulatory ECG, labs) and told me I was perfectly healthy. I was 40 lbs overweight, insulin-resistant, nutritionally deficient, and running on 2–4 hours of sleep. Everything was "normal." Nothing was fine.

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If you're a clinician, this one's for you. You read labs all day, but nobody is reading yours. And "normal" labs can hide a metabolism that's quietly drifting years before any diagnosis shows up.

In this video, I break down the gap between what your bloodwork flags and what your body is actually doing; why conventional medicine is built to catch disease but not dysfunction, why the reference range fails you, and what it actually takes to move toward what I call resilient health.

We cover insulin resistance, the reference range problem, cellular metabolism, an autoimmune marker (ANA) that turned negative once I fixed the underlying environment, and the full spectrum from dysfunction to disease-free to resilient health.