Mike Drop Podcast Episode 49: Rachel Scheer - Modeling, Nutrition, and Functional Medicine
About this video
Mike Ritland interviews Rachel Shearer, a functional medicine nutritionist and fitness competitor with a BS in nutrition and dietetics from Baylor University. Shearer shares her structured morning routine, her heavy-lifting training philosophy, and discusses functional medicine’s root-cause approach versus traditional Western medicine’s symptom management. She recounts her difficult childhood with a schizophrenic father and explains how outdated nutritional paradigms (like the food pyramid’s grain-heavy foundation) conflict with her current understanding that prioritizes whole proteins, healthy fats, and minimal processed carbohydrates.
Key takeaways
- Shearer advocates avoiding the snooze button, staying off phones for the first 30-60 minutes after waking, and starting the day with gratitude and intention-setting to maintain emotional control and focus.
- Functional medicine seeks root causes of health issues through testing and lifestyle analysis, whereas Western medicine often defaults to symptom-management through medication without addressing underlying problems.
- Traditional nutrition education (such as the grain-heavy food pyramid) is outdated according to Shearer; she emphasizes whole proteins, healthy fats like eggs cooked in quality oils, and sprouted grains over processed carbohydrates for optimal health and body composition.
Episode details: published December 31, 2019 · 51.9K views · 2:09:23 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.
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