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Episodes from Barbell Medicine Podcast
Is It Really Just Calories In, Calories Out? Metabolism, Insulin, Hormones and Why Counting Fails
Is weight loss really just Calories in, Calories out? The equation is true, but "just count your Calories" is bad advice for most people, and almost every objection to it is pointing at something real. In part two of our energy balance series, Jordan Feigenbaum takes the biggest "it's not Calories,…
Is Obesity a Willpower Problem? The Biology of Weight, Diets, and GLP-1s
Obesity roughly tripled in about 60 years, and the genes didn't change in that time. So if body weight isn't a willpower problem, what is it? Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum and Dr. Austin Baraki walk through what actually sets your weight: the adoption and twin studies behind the genetics, the "defended…
Direct Line (Free): GLP-1 Muscle Loss and Creatine, Bulking vs Cutting, One-Hour Training, & Detraining
Once a month we answer Barbell Medicine Plus subscribers’ questions on the Direct Line. This is a free look at June’s episode. We start with GLP-1 drugs and muscle: why DEXA overstates the loss, what resistance training actually does, and whether creatine is worth taking. Then whether bulking and…
Menopause Part 4: Training, Protein, Cortisol, Hormone Therapy, & Bone Density
Is there really a “menopause-specific” way to train, eat, and supplement — or is most of it marketing? In the finale of our 4-part menopause series, Drs. Jordan Feigenbaum and Austin Baraki go straight to the evidence on building muscle and bone before, during, and after the transition.We cover…
Menopause Part 3: Body Composition, Bone, Brain, & the Fitness Changes (The Data vs the Influencers)
Most women in 2026 are told menopause affects everything, the weight, the belly fat, the bones, the heart, the brain, and that the fix is hormones, supplements, and a proprietary protocol. The data tell a different story. Menopause does some of it, but not all of it.In this episode, Dr. Jordan…
Menopause, Part 2: The 2,000-Year-Old Lie About Women and Exercise
The story goes that hard exercise is risky for women, and that the idea is ancient. Both halves fall apart on contact. In this solo episode, Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum follows the claim that physical effort harms the female body across twenty centuries, and shows that almost every version of it arrived…
Menopause, Part 1: What It Actually Is and the 24-Year WHI Correction
In 1889 a French physiologist injected himself with guinea pig and dog testicle extract and published a claim of self-rejuvenation in The Lancet. That announcement kicked off a 200-year medicalization of menopause that ran through leeches and bromides, Premarin, the 2002 Women's Health Initiative,…
Is Creatine Causing Your Shin Pain? + Splitting Training, Endometriosis for Lifters | Direct Line · May 2026
This is the free preview of the May 2026 Direct Line, our monthly AMA for Barbell Medicine Plus subscribers. Three reader questions answered in full.We open with a mid-30s woman with bilateral shin pain and exertional foot numbness who started creatine a month ago and is asking whether the…
What’s Actually Driving Your Testosterone Down? | Signal Ep 3
Most cases of low testosterone in modern men are not a problem with the testes. The number is downstream of body composition, sleep, and energy availability. The wellness-clinic algorithm walks past every one of them.Jordan and Austin walk through what actually drives men’s testosterone down, the…
Progressive Loading Part 3: Why the Novice / Intermediate / Advanced Framework Doesn't Work, and What to Do Instead
Three weeks of stalled squats. The conventional answer is to switch programs because you've crossed into intermediate territory. The data says something else. In Part 3 of the Progressive Loading series, Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum and Dr. Austin Baraki walk through why the standard novice / intermediate…
Is Your Testosterone Actually Low? Why Higher Testosterone Doesn't Do What You Think | Signal Ep 2
Out of 32 symptoms commonly attributed to low testosterone, only 3 actually correlate with it. All three are sexual. The other 29 — fatigue, brain fog, low mood, weight you can't lose, feeling not quite like yourself — are real, but they are produced by something else, and the wellness-clinic…
Direct Line April 2026: Stopping Ozempic and Lifting With Osteopenia
Stop a GLP-1 and about two thirds of the weight loss comes back within a year. Three randomized withdrawal trials (SURMOUNT-4, STEP 1 extension, STEP 4) and a new BMJ 2026 systematic review of 37 RCTs and nearly 10,000 adults all land on the same signal. The cardiometabolic benefits, blood…