CrossFit vs. marathon running? Yoga vs. pilates? Does the fitness world always have to be a battleground, or is there a middle ground that everyone can agree on?
Dr. Layne Norton is a former powerlifting champion and professional bodybuilder. He is the founder of Biolayne LLC and the co-founder of Carbon Diet Coach.
In this conversation Layne and Steven discuss topics such as, the truth about calories, sugar addiction, growing muscle three times faster, and why people can’t lose weight.
(00:00) Intro
(02:04) Making Fitness Accessible to Everyone
(13:46) My Bullying Experiences Is My Driver to Help People
(16:39) How to Overcome Our Food Addiction
(14:39) Finding the Psychological Ways That Stop Us from Achieving What We Want
(18:02) How to Build Motivation and Discipline
(24:33) Setting Big Goals Stop You from Achieving Them
(27:14) The Psychology of Taking Small Steps Really Work
(29:23) What Takes for a Person to Decide to Lose Weight or Go to the Gym?
(35:00) Calories In/Calories Out
(37:53) Thermic Effect of Food
(41:49) Metabolic Adaptation
(44:02) Can You Lose Weight in Calorie Surplus?
(52:58) Artificial Sweetness
(59:49) Is Sugar Addictive?
(01:06:07) Craving Sugar
(01:08:02) How Sweeteners Affect Our Gut
(01:09:16) What Supplements Do You Recommend?
(01:14:25) Whey Protein
(01:18:03) Caffeine
(01:19:08) Intermittent Fasting
(01:20:16) Does Fasting Help When You're Ill?
(01:24:24) Can You Lose Belly Fat?
(01:27:40) Is Exercise Useful for Weight Loss?
(01:30:40) Exercising Helps Having a Balanced Diet
(01:35:07) Keto Diet
(01:39:21) Fat Loss and Fat Oxidation
(01:41:55) The Importance of Failure in Success Rate
(01:49:53) Ozempic
(01:53:10) What Are the Downsides of These Drugs?
(02:00:36) What Do You Think of the Fitness Industry?
(02:08:05) Resistance Training
(02:09:16) How to Grow Big Muscles
(02:17:21) Last Guest Question
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Studies mentioned in the episode:
Obesity Risk for Female Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Prospective Study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6230287_Obesity_Risk_for_Female_Victims_of_Childhood_Sexual_Abuse_A_Prospective_Study
Successful weight loss maintenance: A systematic review of weight control registries:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32048787/
Creatine for the Treatment of Depression:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769464/
Discrepancy between self-reported and actual caloric intake:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1454084/
Non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water after a 52-week weight management programme: a randomised controlled trial:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-023-01393-3
Short-term consumption of sucralose with, but not without, carbohydrate impairs neural and metabolic sensitivity to sugar in human:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784207/
A randomized controlled trial to isolate the effects of fasting and energy restriction on weight loss and metabolic health in lean adults:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784207/
Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763407000589
The NutriNet-Santé Study
https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03335644
Relation between caloric intake, body weight, and physical work: studies in an industrial male population in West Bengal:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13302165/
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and the Thyroid:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281535/
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