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• Where did the advice to not lift heavy weights come from?

  October 2, 2026 · 57 min

  Nearly every warning you've heard about lifting weights was written down before anybody checked it. We trace where those warnings came from, starting with a Harvard student in 1854 and ending with a curve on a graph that's being used today…

• Is It Safe to Train When the Air Is Full of Wildfire Smoke?

  September 24, 2026 · 37 min

  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 enough that the workout costs you more than it gives you. We went and looked. There is a real…

• Do You Need a Calorie Surplus to Build Muscle? | Dr. Eric Helms

  September 17, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

  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 new, unless you're carrying extra body fat, unless you're coming back from time off. Dr…

• Is Obesity A Muscle Problem?

  September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  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 are true, and neither one means that building more muscle is the treatment for obesity…

• Who Needs Testosterone, and Who's Not Getting It I Signal Episode 4

  August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

  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 Feigenbaum and Dr. Austin Baraki work through who actually needs testosterone replacement…

• Your Fat Has a Storage Limit

  August 20, 2026 · 49 min

  In 2004 a surgeon removed about ten kilograms of fat from fifteen women and measured everything that mattered. Nothing improved. Four years later, it still hadn't. That result should have ended an argument about body fat. Instead the…

• Lifting and longevity: is 1 hour a week really the limit? Plus GLP1s and mood, training with ME/CFS, and Protein vs. Calories

  August 12, 2026 · 46 min

  A popular paper claimed the longevity benefit of lifting disappears once you train more than an hour a week. It's a real paper, but the claim is a misread. This is the free cut of this month's Direct Line, where Drs. Feigenbaum and Baraki…

• The FDA Voted for 6 Peptides. Its Own Scientists Said No

  August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  An FDA advisory committee just voted to open a legal compounding supply line for six of seven peptides, including BPC-157 and TB-500, over the objection of the FDA's own scientists, who recommended against all seven. Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum…