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Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Diet Soda, Artificial Sweeteners & Gut Supplements - Should You...?

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, bodybuilding coach and nutrition pseudoscience myth buster, Dr. Layne Norton. Layne is a champion powerlifter and bodybuilder who turned his passion for lifting weights into a career that has helped over 2k people reach their health and fitness goals. Today’s episode debunks misinformation about artificial sweeteners, gut health, and calories in vs. calories out. Danielle and Layne also dissect numerous studies related to sucralose, diet soda, and other sweeteners that will leave you stunned and perhaps a little bit thirsty. Permission granted to crack open a diet coke while listening. Dr. Layne Norton is a bodybuilding, figure, and physique coach who received his BS in Biochemistry from Eckerd College with honors and his PhD in Nutritional Sciences with honors from the University of Illinois. He developed his own nutrition and fitness coaching app called Biolane and has a no-BS supplement line called Carbon by Layne Norton. They discuss myths and misconceptions in regards to: The health impacts of artificial sweeteners and whether they make you prone to diabetes and cancer Whether sweeteners are linked to obesity and can hinder weight loss The gut microbiome Metabolism and calorie deficits Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Layne @biolayne. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: POLICYGENIUS - Head to policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes TALKSPACE - visit talkspace.com and get $100 off your first month when you use promo code drdanielle at sign-up. COZY EARTH - Go to cozyearth.com and enter WELLNESS at checkout to SAVE thirty-five percent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:37.0

This is an example of people not seeing the forest because they're standing right next to a tree.

0:44.0

Okay?

0:45.0

What do we actually care about?

0:47.0

Do we care about a mechanism that we could say, well, A equals B and B equals C and C equals D, then A equals D?

0:55.0

Or do we care about just actually measuring D?

0:57.0

Because I would say, well, let's just measure D and see what happens.

1:07.0

Welcome to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.

1:10.0

I'm Dr. Danielle Valardo, and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition science.

1:15.0

But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness fads take over social media.

1:20.0

It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians and scientists to help us determine what is fact vs. fiction when it comes to your health.

1:29.0

It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness.

1:36.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.

1:47.0

I am so excited for today's episode as we have one of the biggest and most love nutrition pseudoscience mythbusters on the podcast.

1:54.0

Our guest today is Lane Norton.

1:55.0

If you aren't following Lane on social media, you are missing out.

1:58.0

So make sure to check him out and prepare to have your mind blown and also to laugh a bunch because he is absolutely hilarious.

2:05.0

Lane is a bodybuilding figure and physique coach who is also a professional powerlifter and bodybuilder.

2:11.0

He received his bachelor's in biochemistry from Eckerd College with honors and then went on to finish his PhD in nutritional sciences with honors from the University of Illinois in 2010.

2:20.0

He's coached over 2,000 people and developed his own coaching app, Carbon.

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