Dr. Layne Norton

Is it the oil or is it overall they're having a really poor quality overall diet?

So I think for me, yes, I hold very much open the possibility that there could be some deleterious effects.

But I think for most people, it's one of the reasons I say have guidelines, don't have rules, right?

Because if you say things like, I don't eat seed oils, well –

as a guideline that might be okay because you're probably avoiding a lot of like hyper ultra processed, hyper palatable foods, fried foods.

But when you're like, you know, cooking in a bunch of butter instead of like canola oil or olive oil or, or, well, I guess not olive oil, but, um,

like you're kind of missing the point, you know?

And so I just want people to be a little bit more sane with how they handle this.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of this boils down to, there's a lot of conspiracy theories around all this kind of stuff.

I mean, I've been told I've been paid off by big pharma, by big food, you know, I'll name your, name your list.

I think at a fundamental level, people don't like the idea of responsibility, of personal responsibility in this.

And it's much more palatable to say,

kind of say, well, you know, the food industry did this to us because they put all these things in our food supply and that's what made us all sick and, you know, X, Y, Z. And there's all these, you know, nefarious backroom deals being done.

I tend to think that most stuff is much more practical than that, which is food companies want you to eat more stuff because they make more money and their shareholders get more profits.

And that's good for business.

And so...

If tomorrow people stood up and were like, we're not eating this processed junk anymore and we want fresh fruits, vegetables, and that's all they bought, guess what food companies would do?

They would stop producing all that stuff or they would focus on the other stuff, right?

And so I think a lot of people like the idea of having this nefarious, evil, bad guy in the food world.

And I think it kind of takes – it feels nice for the ego because it takes that personal responsibility away.