OffTheCharts Health: Nobody Taught Us About This

About OffTheCharts Health: Nobody Taught Us About This

Everyday our feeds fill up with new health tech, trending supplements, and noisy advice. Moving across emergency medicine, complex women’s health, health tech, and academia taught Dr. Amy Papermaster (PhD, FNP-C) how frustrating navigating consumer wellness can be. On OffTheCharts Health, Amy filters through the noise to deliver plain-truth, data-backed clarity you can actually use. Each episode features unhurried conversations with trusted clinicians, researchers, and founders: breaking down cutting-edge health innovation for everyone, while highlighting what the research specifically shows for female bodies. 🎧 Subscribe now and get your data-backed health cheat sheets at OffTheCharts.Health (http://OffTheCharts.Health)

Publisher

Amy Papermaster

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2025

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Health and Recovery in MLB: Red Light, Wearables & more | Dr. Nate Whitney, MLB Physical Therapist

   Pro sports teams have access to every recovery device, supplement, and performance tool on the market. In this episode of OffTheCharts Health, Dr. Amy Papermaster sits down with Dr. Nate Whitney, a Major League Baseball physical therapist and former professional center fielder, to evaluate elite recovery options together. We cover: A day in the life across 162 games, no weekends or holidays off Prevention vs. rehab, and the "subclinical injury" Why he is careful about correcting a healthy elite performer's "impairments" Position-specific breakdown: catchers' knees and ankles, outfielders' running volume between innings, pitchers' elbows Tommy John and the velocity paradox The 30 percent one-year spike in oblique injuries Supplements in the clubhouse Youth sports specialization Mental health in the clubhouse The modalities: scraping, cupping, needling, myofascial release, red light laser, PEMF, force plates, GPS, wearables, etc. Why the fundamentals done well are the real cutting edge The unsolved data problem FOLLOW & CONNECT: Substack Newsletter (https://open.substack.com/pub/amypapermaster) Linktree (https://linktr.ee/offthecharts.health) Educational content only. Not medical advice. Views are my own.

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Inside Elite College Sports Medicine at UT Austin: Brain Health, NIL, RED-S | Ryan Roe, PA-C, ATC

   Ryan Roe, PA-C, ATC is one of two full-time medical providers caring for nearly 700 student-athletes across 20 varsity sports at the University of Texas at Austin, currently the top-performing collegiate athletics program in the country. You might spot him on the Texas sideline in an SEC football game and he's the person the athletes come to for health and wellness. We cover: A day in the life caring for nearly 700 elite college athletes The multi-disciplinary integrated care model at UT Athletics: physicians, PAs, athletic trainers, dietitians, mental health providers, sports scientists, physical therapists Why this model works, and what it would take to bring it into everyday healthcare Concussions: how evaluation and return-to-play have evolved, and what the NFL research is teaching college programs RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) in female athletes, and why "not having a period" was normalized for far too long Hormonal contraception in athletes and how it complicates the RED-S workup Mental health, the NIL era, and the pressure on 17- to 25-year-olds performing under the world's cameras Sports science: catapult load monitoring, force plates, DEXA, wearables Recovery science: cold plunge, sauna, red light, hyperbaric, contrast baths, and what the evidence supports Supplements, NCAA regulations, and what's off-limits even when it's over-the-counter Regenerative medicine: PRP, PPP, stem cells, BMAC, peptides, and where the wild west begins “Back to basics” are sometimes the most important tools Sign up for more at OffTheCharts.Health (http://OffTheCharts.Health)

3. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Your Doctor, the Internet, or the Wellness Industry: Who Can You Trust? | Dr. Lucy McBride

   Dr. Lucy McBride has practiced primary care internal medicine in Washington DC for 25 years, writes the weekly newsletter 'Are You Okay?' to 41,000 readers, hosts a hit podcast, and has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Her new book, Beyond the Prescription, is a framework for thinking, asking better questions, and becoming a more informed and empowered participant in your own health. We cover: Who she pictured reading the book, and what was missing from the shelf Becoming the "CEO of your own health", and what that looks like in practice The two forces pulling patients apart: a healthcare system that misses the human, and a $6.3 trillion wellness industry "weaponizing partial truths" The middle path she offers between medical maximalism and wellness culture The Four I's framework: informatics, inputs, infrastructure, and insight Health data, biographic data, and the story that rarely makes it into the chart How childhood, everyday habits, and lived experience show up in your labs Nutrition, protein, and our relationship with food Supplements, the illusion of certainty, and how to be an informed consumer How to partner with health tech and wearables as a clinical tool without letting them run your life Movement as medicine, injury, and caring for your physical container in midlife The serenity prayer, unwinnable battles, and where agency actually lives Mental health is health: the mind-body connection, the unconscious, and the stories we tell ourselves The patient personality and how the version of yourself who shows up at the clinic Her vision for the future of primary care, and where AI can help Beyond the Prescription is out August 11th wherever books are sold! Find Dr. McBride's newsletter and podcast at lucymcbride.com (http://lucymcbride.com). Sign up for more at OffTheCharts.Health (http://OffTheCharts.Health)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

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