Dr. Layne Norton

So you can get protein bound amino acids versus intracellular amino acids because you need the precursor pool.

And then you have got to take it through GCMS, but you have to do several reactions before that because it's got to be detectable on the GCMS.

And so you,

you go put all this work in.

And then a week later you find out, yeah, it didn't actually do anything.

Now we've got to go back to square one.

Right.

And so probably did that for like 18 months.

And it was actually a lab mate of mine who kind of figured out where the kink was.

We had residual acid in the samples, but point being with all that, it was like,

I never, if I wasn't willing to go in and fail repeatedly, I never would have gotten to the answer, you know?

And I just think so many people are stuck in.

being so afraid to just go.

And when I say fail, like, okay, you go out, you have a stressful day, you come home and you stuff your face with ice cream or something like that.

Okay.

Well, and I had, I have a client I'm actually thinking of right now who was a hedge fund manager and we started working together.

He was probably binge eating almost every day.

And I, every time it happened, I said, okay, first of all,

They're – holding yourself accountable is good.

Shaming yourself is not going to facilitate behavior change, OK?