Today I am honored to welcome an old friend, Dr. Spencer Nodalski, to the podcast.

Spencer and I started making online fitness content around the same time in 2011,

and we first met in person at my gym in 2014.

So over 10 years ago now, which is crazy.

Spencer is a board certifiedcertified family medicine physician,

obesity and lipid specialist,

and a true advocate for using exercise and nutrition as medicine.

He has helped thousands of patients achieve sustainable weight loss

through evidence-based approaches,

all while combating health misinformation

with his one-of-a-kind humor and compassion.

He's a husband, father to three beautiful children, and it's a blessing to have him here.

Dr. Spencer Nidalski, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me, buddy.

So we're going to start off.

Simple question.

Who are you?

Well, I'm a physician, but a former athlete, but I liked what you said being a husband

and a father as well, because I think those things are very important. But my history is

basically my parents were teachers, both of them. Mom was an elementary school teacher. They had

a biology teacher, but also a wrestling coach, very academically minded and

athletically minded. So I went through, you know, younger life lifting weights early. In fact,

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