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The mindbodygreen Podcast

631: Building lean muscle, optimizing body comp & protein timing | Jaime Seeman, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

mindbodygreen

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

“Most women are doing too much cardio and not enough resistance training,” explains Jaime Seeman, M.D.  Seeman, a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and member of mindbodygreen’s scientific board of advisors, joins us today to dive deep into how women can support muscle, hormones, and metabolic health across every decade of life. - Dr. Seeman’s morning routine (~3:40) - How to do fasting the right way (~6:35) - How to eat for body recomposition (~8:30) - Balancing macros (~11:00) - Optimizing your nutrition (~15:55) - Wearables, macros, & hormones (~17:55) - Nutrition & exercise for your 20s (~19:00) - Health advice for your 30s (~20:55) - Jaime’s personal experience postpartum (~25:25) - Seeman’s prescription for training (~27:10) - How to make the most of your training (~28:30) - Health in your 40s & 50s (~32:00) - Understanding the nuance with HRT (~34:00) - Seeman’s favorite supplement, creatine (~38:00) - Her hot takes (~41:30) Referenced in the episode:  - Follow Dr. Seeman on Instagram (@doctorfitandfabulous) - Check out her website (https://www.doctorfitandfabulous.com/)  - Listen to her podcast The Fit and Fabulous Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fit-and-fabulous-podcast/id1575100757)  - Watch her TEDx Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJIw-hljICY)  - Listen to her previous episode (Muscle, metabolism, & mindset for women | Jamie Seeman, M.D.)   We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Mind Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green, and your host.

0:10.3

As the new year begins, most health advice still revolves around cutting calories and chasing the scale,

0:16.3

rather than supporting women's long-term strength and hormonal health. Today's guest, Dr. Jamie Seaman,

0:22.9

is back on the show to shift that narrative and explain what true strength actually looks like

0:28.8

this year and beyond. Dr. Seaman is a board-certified OBGYN with advanced training in nutrition,

0:34.6

exercise science, and integrative medicine. She's also a board certified ketogenic nutrition specialist and a member of our scientific advisory board here at

0:43.0

Mind Buddy Green, bringing together clinical expertise, performance science, and real world experience

0:48.8

caring for women across every life stage. In today's show, we explore how to train and fuel your body in the

0:55.8

new year for strength, fat loss, and longevity, fasted versus fed workouts, and how to use fasting

1:02.6

without harming hormones. Why protein resistance training, creatine, and muscle are non-negotiable

1:09.3

for women as they age and how nutrition, training,

1:12.2

and hormones need to shift in your 30s, 40s, and beyond.

1:15.3

If your New Year's goal is to feel stronger, sharper, and more resilient, this episode is for you.

1:24.7

All right, so it's 9 a.m. in Nebraska. It's a Friday in December, although this is airing the first week of January. Walk me through your morning. I have a feeling you've already done a lot.

1:35.1

I have. Well, today's a non-clinical day because I get to be here podcasting. So this morning, I got up. I went to the gym. I actually got called into the hospital to deliver a baby. So went and did that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. But I just stopped there. What time was that? It's 9 a.m. Oh, I got called. 5 a.m. Yeah, it was 5 a.m. And then I came home. I actually had some coffee. Got my girls off to school. I got on a meeting. We had a human

2:01.8

performance team meeting for our Omaha Supernovas, our professional volleyball team. I actually

2:06.5

got a few presents wrapped after my girls left the house and now I'm here doing this beautiful

2:10.5

podcast. But a normal, normal, normal day. My normal is so much different, but a normal day.

2:17.9

I would wake up at 5 a.m.

2:20.0

I would head straight to the gym.

2:21.5

I would get my workout in for an hour.

2:24.4

Come home, shower.

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