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Protein dominates health conversations — but are we focusing on the wrong lever? In this conversation, Carson and I unpack muscle preservation, hormones, fiber, and where peptides actually fit into long-term health.

Protein is one of the most talked-about nutrients in modern health culture. But true protein deficiency in the United States is rare — while other foundational elements of health are often overlooked.

In this conversation with Carson, we step back from the macro-counting mindset and look at the bigger physiological picture.

We discuss: • Why protein deficiency is uncommon — and why fiber deficiency is not • The real drivers of muscle preservation as we age • Resistance training vs. macronutrient obsession • Sleep, endocrine balance, and recovery • The difference between exogenous hormones and peptide stimulation • Growth hormone modulation and long-term risk • Short-term performance vs. long-term healthspan

This episode is less about how many grams you’re eating — and more about which levers actually move the needle.

If you care about strength, recovery, metabolic health, and longevity, this conversation reframes where your attention might belong.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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Most people who say they function fine on six hours of sleep are not lying. They are describing how it feels. The problem is that sleep loss alters perception before it causes obvious collapse.

I explore how sleep architecture recalibrates emotional regulation, decision-making, and cognitive bandwidth; why subjective performance stabilizes while objective performance declines; how REM and deep sleep shape perception; and how modern habits fragment complete sleep cycles.

Rather than focusing on muscle recovery or performance optimization, this episode examines the psychological cost of incomplete sleep and the mechanism-based steps that restore full cycles.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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The body doesn’t follow nutrition rules. It keeps accounts.

You can also checkout the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/ClVdbSaG_8Q

Protein is one of the places where that accounting becomes visible. Muscle tissue is constantly being built and broken down, and when intake doesn’t consistently exceed the cost of what the body is being asked to maintain, the system adjusts quietly. Not through breakdown, but through reduced margin.

In this episode, I explain why protein functions less like advice and more like infrastructure—why moderation only works when total intake clears demand, why aging raises the cost without announcing it, and why inefficiency often appears long before obvious loss.

This is not about chasing targets or extremes.
It’s about funding the assets you expect your body to keep.

This is Uncommonly Remarkable. Thanks for listening.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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Most people take supplements expecting clear, predictable results.
In practice, supplements rarely work that way — not because they’re useless, but because expectations are misaligned with how the body actually adapts.

In this episode, I explain:

• Why supplements feel inconsistent even when people “do everything right”
• The difference between support and substitution
• Why context matters more than the product itself
• How expectations, physiology, and behavior quietly shape outcomes

This isn’t a takedown of supplements.
It’s a clearer way to think about what they can — and can’t — reasonably do.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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This is an authored monologue from Uncommonly Remarkable℠.

Burnout doesn’t usually come from a lack of motivation. It shows up in people who are capable, disciplined, and consistent—often the ones holding the most responsibility. In this episode, I explore why burnout is often caused by structure rather than effort, how identity load becomes concentrated over time, and why relying on a single pillar for meaning and stability makes even strong systems fragile.

I introduce an alternative model—one that distributes load, restores margin, and allows ambition to continue without collapse. This is a conversation about design, not disengagement; architecture, not grit.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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This is an authored monologue from Uncommonly Remarkable℠.

Most people don’t fail at fitness because they lack discipline — they fail because they’re running a system that was never designed for real human lives.

In this episode, Artis explains why motivation-based fitness plans break down, how time and complexity sabotage consistency, and why better design beats willpower every time. Drawing from a recent conversation with PJ Glassey, this monologue reframes fitness as an engineering problem rather than a character test.

If fitness has always felt harder than it should, this episode offers a simpler, more sustainable way to think about progress — one built around routine, fit, and realistic behavior instead of hype.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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This is an authored monologue from Uncommonly Remarkable.

We tend to recognize mental health struggles when they look like crisis — when things fall apart, when someone withdraws, when distress becomes visible. But many people struggle in a different way. They function. They perform. They stay disciplined. And because of that, their distress often goes unnamed.

In this monologue, I explore a pattern that shows up frequently — especially in men — where discipline becomes a coping mechanism. Structure, control, and self-regulation begin as stabilizing tools, but over time can turn rigid, narrowing life rather than expanding it. This often appears around eating, exercise, body image, and performance, where behaviors that look admirable on the outside quietly carry emotional weight underneath.

This isn’t about blame or diagnosis. It’s about learning to recognize when discipline is serving health — and when it’s being used to manage uncertainty, anxiety, or identity pressure instead.

Some of this thinking has been shaped by past conversations on the show. If this topic resonates, there’s a longer and more nuanced conversation available with George Mycock, where we explore these ideas with clinical depth and care.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.

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This is an authored monologue from Uncommonly Remarkable.

Personal health responsibility is not about blame — it’s about clarity.

In this episode, I explore the line between what healthcare systems are built to do and what they can never fully own for us. Acute care saves lives. But long-term health still depends on daily decisions, awareness, and personal agency.

This is a conversation about responsibility, not judgment — and about what changes when you stop waiting for systems to do work only you can do.

This is Uncommonly Remarkable. Thanks for listening.

Uncommonly Remarkable℠ is a health and wellness show focused on understanding how the body works and how everyday choices shape long-term health.

I’m Artis Beatty, a doctor of optometry and Chief Medical Officer at MyEyeDr. While my professional background informs how I think, the perspectives shared here are my own.