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Dr. Layne Norton

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FoundMyFitness
#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Does it change the overall diet?

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Everybody would say no, right?

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Like one – if you eat like junk most times but you have one healthy meal, it's going to do very little, right?

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

So why do we think it goes the opposite direction where like you have one unhealthy meal.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

All of a sudden you've just undone everything you've ever done, right?

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

And so I try to meet people where they're at and get their mindset out of perfectionism and just get it into execution.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

I think that is the biggest stumbling block is we have a lot of people who just really are afraid to try and fail and just get into execution mode.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

And I think one of the most liberating things for me is

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

was that background in being a competitor and failing a lot.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

It just got me over the like, oh, this is just part of it.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Like from doing a PhD, I'm sure you had plenty of stuff that just didn't work.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

You know, like the number of experiments I came home with tears in my eyes because I couldn't even get the analysis to work.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Like I spent probably a year and a half going through every step of our analysis of muscle protein synthesis because I wasn't getting any data back.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Trying to figure out where is the kink in this chain?

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

for those who aren't familiar, like muscle protein synthesis to, to do like 50 samples probably takes you a week to get actual data back because you're

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

You're grinding frozen tissue, frozen liquid nitrogen, and you've got to keep it on a liquid nitrogen the whole time.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Like doing just 20 samples of that probably takes four hours.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Then you've got to homogenize the tissue.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

Then you've got to separate it.

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#094 Dr. Layne Norton on Building Muscle – Insights on Diet, Training, and Supplements

You've got to take it through various reactions.