Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person just like you and me.

Today on American Glutton we welcome Lane Norton. Lane is a PhD in nutritional science,

pro natural bodybuilder, raw elite powerlifter, physique coach and has been called the Godfather

of Nutritional Science. You can find Lane at BioLane on Instagram or BioLane.com.

Lane Norton, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thanks for having me already, tonight. I really appreciate it, Ben.

Thank you so much for doing this amidst all the chaos in the world right now. I appreciate

it and I think it will be really helpful for people.

Well, two things I'm good at are nutrition and talking and I can still do those from the comfort

of my home. Exactly, right? Nothing is slow down there.

No, no, we've been humming right along.

I guess I first want to ask you why it is you think and I have my suspicions about this,

but why it is you think that there are so many diets out there that kind of misrepresent

their, not even their vitality, but their kind of ownership on the space of dieting versus

people just approaching these diets through scientific means.

Lots of unpacking that question, but I think if I had to kind of give up halfway for

that. I think first off, I think that the truth is usually not sexy.

So I always like to relate to people's industries that they're in, right? So you're an actor,

you've been successful in that. And if what would be sexy would be, if somebody came to

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