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

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

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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

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:07.2	This is an example of people not seeing the forest because they're standing right next to a tree.
0:13.8	Okay?
0:14.4	What do we actually care about?
0:17.2	Do we care about a mechanism that we could say, well,
0:20.6	if A equals B and B and B equals C and C equals D,
0:23.7	then A equals D? Or do we care about just actually measuring D? Because I would say, well, let's just measure
0:28.8	D and see what happens.
0:36.9	Welcome to wellness, fact versus fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Ballardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based
0:43.4	medicine and nutrition science. But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness vads take over social media.
0:49.8	It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians and scientists
0:54.5	to help us determine what is fact versus fiction when it comes to your health.
0:59.3	It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness.
1:18.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome to wellness fact versus fiction. I'm so excited for today's episode as we have one of the biggest and most love nutrition, pseudoscience, mythbusters on the
1:22.9	podcast. Our guest today's Lane Norton. If you aren't following Lane on social media,
1:27.2	you are missing out. 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.
1:35.1	Lane is a bodybuilding, figure, and physique coach who is also a professional powerlifter and bodybuilder. He received his bachelor's in biochemistry from Eckerd College with honors and then
1:44.6	went on to finish his PhD and nutritional sciences with honors from the University of Illinois in 2010.
1:50.3	He's coached over 2,000 people and developed his own coaching app, Carbon. He spends tons of time on
1:55.2	social media on podcasts and the press debunking ridiculous nutrition and fitness misinformation.
2:02.4	On today's episode, we talk about Lane's fitness and health journey and how he turned his passion for weightlifting into a
2:06.4	career, whether artificial sweeteners are actually harmful and make you prone to diabetes and
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