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Danielle Walker

Founder and Author, Against All Grain · 1 appearance on the record.

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Danielle Walker is a multi-time New York Times bestselling cookbook author and wellness advocate who creates grain-free and gluten-free recipes to manage ulcerative colitis. Her publications include the blog Against All Grain and books such as Celebrations, Eat What You Love, and Food Saved Me.

11statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.91/5average certainty → 1.45/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 4said about them ↓

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Danielle argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Walker: Fans crowdfunded her debut book tour via Indiegogo
“They actually did an Indiegogo fundraiser to send me on tour to get to go and meet all of these people when this book came out, because there was no marketing budget for it, and there was no PR budget for it.”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 26:54 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Danielle Walker on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Danielle Walker said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: Paleo elimination diet reduced UC symptoms 75-80% in two days
“I ended up having to go a little bit further, and I had to cut all dairy and the legumes that were allowed in there, and that's kind of where I ended up more on a paleo diet, and when I did that elimination diet, my symptoms decreased by 75 to 80% within just …”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 12:50 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Opinion
Walker: Paleo diet makes prescribed autoimmune medications drastically more effective
“When I am eating a clean paleo diet, the medications that I am on at the time seem to just be drastically more effective. I almost feel like the inflammatory kind of diet that we tend to eat on a day-to-day basis almost acts as a roadblock sometimes for some o…”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 39:09 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Assertion Supported
Walker: Fans crowdfunded her debut book tour via Indiegogo
“They actually did an Indiegogo fundraiser to send me on tour to get to go and meet all of these people when this book came out, because there was no marketing budget for it, and there was no PR budget for it.”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 26:54 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Disclosure
Walker: Funded debut cookbook from personal savings with zero advance
“I really poured not only our savings into it, because I didn't get an advance but also all my time and all my energy”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 28:56 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Disclosure
Walker: Against All Grain prioritizes long-form video over trendy short-form clips
“For me, I know I like to teach in long format. I know that my current audience likes to learn in more of a long format, you know, where they get to really see the steps, and so I could go and I could make a ton of short TikTok videos, but it's not really true …”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 42:41 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: First dietary advice for condition came from Uganda doctor
“Honestly, the first little hint of anything food related did not come from any of my doctors in San Francisco. It came from the doctor who treated me in Kampala.”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 9:20 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Assertion Supported
Walker: Fifty million Americans have autoimmune diseases
“There's fifty million Americans that have autoimmune diseases”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 17:00 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Assertion Partly supported
Walker: Publisher offered cookbook deal after finding her granola recipe
“I had just started working on the ebook, and then I got this email that I thought must be a joke from a publisher offering me a cookbook deal and she was so kind, she went into kind of the reason why she found my blog. She had a child with an autoimmune diseas…”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 23:42 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Disclosure
Walker: Pushed publisher to put her face on debut cookbook cover
“I put myself on the first book for that reason. I hadn't really been out there much, and they wanted to put food on the cover, and I remember telling the publisher, I need my face on this because I need other women who are suffering with this disease to see th…”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 30:49 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Walker: Specialized diets won't be widely recommended without peer-reviewed studies
“Until there's peer review, there's scientific studies on this type of eating, it's not going to be widely recommended.”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 40:36 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Assertion Supported
Walker: Paleo searches are declining while gluten-free continues to boom
“I will say there's definitely a decline in people searching for paleo recipes. Grain-free is continuing to growing. Of course, gluten-free, that industry is just continuing to boom.”
Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 ▶ 43:51 HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker

The other half of the tape: Danielle Walker's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on How I Built This. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Katlin Smith 2Mike Salguero 1

Statements about Danielle Walker, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Katlin Smith: Danielle Walker's Facebook post sold out Simple Mills in an hour
“I think it was more focused on the retail path, but a few months later, a influencer, what's now called an influencer, discovered the product and wrote about it on her Facebook page, which just kind of astounded me, and we sold out of the product in probably a…”
Katlin Smith Feb 15, 2021 ▶ 23:24 Simple Mills: Katlin Smith

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker Oct 6, 2022 29m
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