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...
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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 w...
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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 ...
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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 straigh...
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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 te...
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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 effor...
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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...
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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 pa...
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