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.

00:00 Intro
02:40 Making Fitness Accessible to Everyone
06:47 My Bullying Experiences Is My Driver to Help People
13:23 How to Overcome Our Food Addiction
17:26 How to Build Motivation and Discipline
24:09 Setting Big Goals Stop You from Achieving Them
26:50 The Psychology of Taking Small Steps Really Work
28:59 What Takes for a Person to Decide to Lose Weight or Go to the Gym?
34:36 Calories In/Calories Out
37:29 Thermic Effect of Food
41:25 Metabolic Adaptation
43:38 Can You Lose Weight in Calorie Surplus?
52:36 Artificial Sweetness
59:25 Is Sugar Addictive?
01:05:43 Craving Sugar
01:07:38 How Sweeteners Affect Our Gut
01:08:52 What Supplements Do You Recommend?
01:14:01 Whey Protein
01:17:39 Caffeine
01:18:44 Intermittent Fasting
01:19:52 Does Fasting Help When You're Ill?
01:24:00 Can You Lose Belly Fat?
01:27:16 Is Exercise Useful for Weight Loss?
01:30:16 Exercising Helps Having a Balanced Diet
01:34:43 Keto Diet
01:38:57 Fat Loss and Fat Oxidation
01:41:31 The Importance of Failure in Success Rate
01:49:29 Ozempic
01:52:46 What Are the Downsides of These Drugs?
02:00:12 What Do You Think of the Fitness Industry?
02:07:41 Resistance Training
02:08:52 How to Grow Big Muscles
02:17:57 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/

This episode of The Diary Of A CEO was filmed at Gold Tree Studios, located in the heart of the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California