Dr. Layne Norton

We take aspartame, for example.

I mean we know what it's metabolized into.

It's two amino acids and it gets metabolized into phenylalanine and aspartate and then methanol, whichever – right?

Well, it's a very, very – like the amount of diet soda you'd have to drink to get up to a level of methanol that would cause problems –

is you would die from electrolyte depletion first, right?

From like basically drowning yourself.

And people say, what about bioaccumulation?

Well, as far as I know, methanol doesn't really do that.

There's a way to process it out of your body unless you're consuming so much consistently that your body never starts getting rid of it.

Just like ethanol, there's a way to process it out of your body unless you're exceeding your body's rate of capacity to eliminate it.

So yeah, for those levels of diet soda, I'm just not worried about it.

I mean, again, one thing my professor really hammered home into my head is

You can never be certain about anything.

So when people say there's proof, I don't think you're speaking scientifically because you can never really prove something in science.

You can support hypotheses with data.

You can disprove stuff.

You can have some things that there's so much overwhelming data, we just accept it as true.

But, you know, we have had things that we have held very closely to we thought were true that ended up

We were slightly off or – I will say like most of my things that I ended up changing my mind on, I never planted my flag super strong about it.

Like even with protein distribution, even though I was a big protein distribution guy, I never said, oh, if you're like not distributing protein, well, you can't make gains.