The Ready State Podcast
The Ready State Podcast explores what it takes to build a stronger, healthier, more durable, more capable life. Hosted by Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett, the show features conversations with leading experts, coaches, and thought leaders across health, aging, fitness, recovery, nutrition, parenting, wel...
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Oct. 29, 2026
The 800-Gram Challenge: A Simpler Approach to Protein, Fiber, & Calories | EC Synkowski
View This Week's Show Notes Start Your 7-Day Trial to Mobility Coach Join Our Free Weekly Newsletter: The Ambush How much of your life have you spent thinking about food, only to wonder whether you're actually getting nutrition right? EC Synkowski is back for her third appearance on The Ready State Podcast, and this time she's celebrating the release of her new book, A Good Nutrition Book. Kelly and Juliet have followed EC's 800-Gram Challenge approach for nearly eight years, and they credit i
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Oct. 22, 2026
RECESS: Smell Loss and Dementia Risk + the Downstream Impacts of California's School Sleep Law
View This Week's Show Notes Juliet and I are back from a long stretch of travel with a lot to get into. I was inducted into the Best Hour of Their Day Hall of Fame at Affiliate Con in Dallas, but the bigger honor is being in a class that includes our late friend Rob Orlando, who brought strongman training into the modern gym. Juliet wants everyone to run, not walk, to the theater for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything. She's not wrong. This week's actual science: we
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Oct. 15, 2026
Dr. Kate Ackerman: RED-S, Bone Health & What Female Athletes Need to Know
View This Week's Show Notes Start Your 7-Day Trial to Mobility Coach Join Our Free Weekly Newsletter: The Ambush Women have always trained hard. The science surrounding how they fuel, recover, build bone, and respond to training has had a lot of catching up to do. In this episode of The Ready State Podcast, Kelly and Juliet sit down with Dr. Kate Ackerman, a triple-boarded physician, former elite lightweight rower, and co-founder and president of the Women’s Health, Sports & Performance Instit
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Oct. 8, 2026
RECESS: Romania's Black Card for Youth Sports, Diet Drink Research, and Outplay Is Finally Done
View This Week's Show Notes Juliet and I just got back from Vancouver and 27 straight days of back-to-back conferences. The shift at the YPO Health Summit from two years ago was striking. The conversation has moved from mitochondrial supplements to something more basic: are you doing the fundamentals? We call this third wave fitness, and it finally feels like we are cresting into it. Romania's football federation just introduced a Black Card for youth soccer, and it is unlike anything we have
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Oct. 1, 2026
Joel Jamieson: How to Use HRV, Zone 2, & VO2 Max to Train Smarter
View This Week's Show Notes Start Your 7-Day Trial to Mobility Coach Join Our Free Weekly Newsletter: The Ambush What if the fitness metrics you’re obsessing over aren’t telling you what you think they are? HRV. VO2 max. Resting heart rate. Zone 2. Wearables have given us more data than ever… but do you know how to use it to inform your training? In this episode of the Ready State Podcast, Kelly and Juliet Starrett sit down with renowned strength and conditioning coach Joel Jamieson to cut thr
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Sept. 24, 2026
RECESS: New Ferritin Thresholds, CTE Research & the Outplay Book
View This Week's Show Notes This one's a first: Juliet and I are recording from different states. I'm up in Evergreen, Colorado, fresh off the Farren Summit in Boulder, where Juliet and I ended up in the same room as Robb Wolf, John Welbourn, and Andy Stumpf. Felt like CrossFit 2.0. The American Society of Hematology just raised the diagnostic floor for ferritin from 15 to 30 ng/mL, and if you've ever been told your iron levels are fine while running on empty, this is a massive deal. Juliet sh