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📋  Two dear friends of mine join Ketobiography to share how “just supporting my wife on Zoom” turned into dramatic weight loss, a terrifying CAC score, and open‑heart surgery that arrived much sooner than anyone expected. Without giving the whole story away, this episode follows Craig and Michaela Young as they navigate scary numbers, conflicting medical advice, and the shock of major surgery, all while still trying to be the social, fun couple who loves their people well. Along the way, they wrestle honestly with “keto‑ish” choices, what’s really worth it, and how to protect their health without losing friendships, joy, or good food.​ 💡 What you’ll Learn in this Episode How a “lurker” on NSNG VIP calls quietly became all‑in and lost nearly 60 pounds in a few months.​Why good labs and “feeling fine” can still hide serious cardiac risk—and what finally pushed them to ask for more testing.​How they handled open‑heart surgery, rehab, and those maddening nutrition questionnaires while staying grounded in a real‑food approach.​Practical ways they eat differently at parties, dinners, and with church/friend groups without making food the main event.​How this experience reshaped their idea of “ish” foods, worth‑it treats, and what it really means to play the long game with health.​ 🔑 Key Insight “If I’m willing to inject myself with something, maybe I should give food another real shot first.”​ -Michaela Young 🌐 Connect with Craig and Michaela Craig: Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/craig.young.52493 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldnum7 Michaela: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaela.z.young Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/micastang 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 What happens when someone who has “always been sick” finally understands insulin resistance and decides to change everything? In this episode of Ketobiography, Joomee Kyler shares how a frightening Type 2 diabetes diagnosis became the turning point that led her to a simple low‑carb/keto way of eating and strategic fasting.  She shares how, within months, her labs, symptoms, and day‑to‑day life looked completely different. Robyn and Joomee discuss what she actually eats, how she approaches therapeutic fasting without overcomplicating it, the emotional side of making big changes, and why she’s now quietly helping others become their own best advocates too. 💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode How a lifetime of “mystery illnesses” connected back to insulin resistance long before a diabetes diagnosis.​The simple, low‑carb/keto and fasting approach Joomee used—without tracking macros—to reverse Type 2 diabetes in 3 months.​The surprising non‑scale wins: sleep apnea resolved, fatty liver and a colon polyp gone, GERD meds stopped, allergies, depression and anxiety lifted.​Practical ways to ease into intermittent and therapeutic fasting, including how Joomee preps for and breaks a 72‑hour fast.​Why becoming your own health advocate matters, and how Joomee now supports friends, runs accountability groups, and studies with SMHP as a passion project.​ 🔑 Key Insight “I feel like the luckiest person in the world because I discovered keto and intermittent fasting on the exact same day I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes—it completely changed my life and gave me my future back.”​  -Joomee Kyler 🌐 Connect with Joomee Instagram (personal low‑carb account):  https://www.instagram.com/lowcarbology101 Instagram (new project): https://www.instagram.com/metabolic.health.stories​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jsk722 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 As a teenager, Benjiman Boyd was a pre-diabetic high school dropout battling ADHD, severe depression, and chaotic mood swings while on multiple medications. After his family tried a ketogenic diet out of sheer desperation, he experienced rapid weight loss, dramatic improvements in mood, memory, and focus, and a renewed belief that he could learn again. That turnaround launched him back into school, into an honors degree in Applied Psychology, and now into graduate work exploring how neurometabolism shapes personality and serious mental illness. In this episode, Ben shares the vulnerable details of medication struggles, emergency inpatient care, and identity collapse, and how ketogenic and other metabolic therapies helped him build resilience, return to academics, and begin advocating for people with conditions like borderline personality disorder through his work with Metabolic Collective.​ 💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode How childhood-onset ADHD, depression, and unstable home life led Ben to drop out of high school and feel hopeless about his ability to learn.​Why conventional ADHD and antidepressant medications left him with extreme mood swings, anger outbursts, and an emergency inpatient stay instead of stability.​How a family decision to try a paleo-based ketogenic diet triggered rapid weight loss, sharper memory, better focus, and the confidence to return to school.​The journey from GED to graduating with honors in Applied Psychology and into grad school, and why Ben chose to focus on the neurometabolism of mental health and personality.​Why he now chooses metabolic therapy for treatment-resistant borderline personality disorder, and how community and metabolic rhythm (sleep, fasting, movement) sustain his own brain health on a grad-student budget.​🔑 Key Insight “I don’t want to say all my success, but a very significant amount of my success, I owe to the ketogenic diet and the broader metabolic therapies that helped me find my focus, my resilience, and my sense of self again.”​ -Benjiman Boyd 🎥 The Magic Pill 🌐 Connect with Benjiman Boyd X: https://x.com/BenjiBoyd4 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.boyd.685560 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjiman-boyd-aa389524b Ben's THINK+SMART profile: https://www.metabolicmind.org/thinksmart/explore-strategies/benjiman-boyd/ Metabolic Collective private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/metaboliccollective 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 When Eddie Rodriguez’s father was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at 53, his family was told to get their affairs in order and wait for the inevitable. Instead, Eddie helped lead a full-scale experiment in metabolic therapies and the Bredesen Protocol that not only improved his dad’s cognition, but also reshaped Eddie’s own life, his CrossFit-fueled low-carb lifestyle, and his mission to change what a “deterministic” Alzheimer’s gene means for future generations.​ 🔑 What You’ll Learn in this Episode How Eddie’s family used ketogenic and low-carb metabolic therapies to dramatically improve his father’s cognition after a bleak early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis.​The basics of the Bredesen Protocol, including cognoscopy testing, root-cause hunting, and why there is no single “silver bullet” for dementia.​Why genes like ApoE4 and Presenilin-1 may “load the gun” but lifestyle and environment pull the trigger—and how that mindset shapes Eddie’s daily choices.​Practical ways fasting, ketones, exercise, sleep, stress management, and toxin reduction can work together to support brain health.​How lived experience, storytelling, and communities like BrainHeal(th) and Metabolic Collective are accelerating awareness of metabolic therapies worldwide.​ 💡 Key Insight “Genes load the gun—what we do, what we eat, what we breathe, how we think, and the environment we put ourselves in pulls the trigger.”​  -Eddie Rodriguez 🌐 Connect with Eddie YouTube: BrainHeal(th) – educational videos on metabolic therapies, the Bredesen Protocol, and his family’s ongoing journey https://www.youtube.com/@BrainHeal_th_Facebook group: BrainHeal(th) community for caregivers and individuals exploring metabolic approaches to cognitive decline https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576560577792X: https://x.com/BrainHealth919Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brainheal_th_ 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 When cancer, burnout, and menopause collide, most people are told to lower their expectations and manage decline. In this episode, Dori Martin, a functional nutrition practitioner, shares how therapeutic keto, mineral balancing, and simple lifestyle shifts helped her husband outlive a stage 4 cancer prognosis and pulled her out of debilitating burnout, disordered eating relapse, and miserable menopausal symptoms. Listeners will hear a candid, hope-filled conversation about using food as medicine and joy, especially in midlife.​ ⏳ Chapters 0:00 - From stage 4 cancer to a new mission with keto​6:45 - Discovering therapeutic keto and her husband’s radical turnaround​9:20 - Disordered eating, elimination diets, and the power of removing sugar and grains​13:45 - Burnout, perimenopause, and why “doing all the things” stopped working​17:30 - Cancer, terrain theory, and changing the prognosis with nutrition and lifestyle​23:40 - Why standard cancer care rarely talks about food and metabolic health​27:30 - Is keto “too hard”? Mindset, cravings, and social pressure around food​31:30 - Menopause, hormones, and why midlife women tolerate carbs differently​35:30 - Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis: what it reveals and why minerals matter​41:00 - Food as medicine and joy: finding purpose in helping others heal​ 💡 What You’ll Learn in this Episode How a stage 4 gastric cancer diagnosis led to discovering therapeutic ketogenic diets and a drastically better outcome than expected.​Why burnout, stress, and perimenopause can make “clean eating, exercise, and supplements” stop working—and what to address first.​How disordered eating patterns can shift when sugar, gluten, and refined carbs are removed and blood sugar is stabilized.​What Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis can reveal about adrenal burnout, thyroid health, blood sugar, detox, and energy production.​How pairing keto with mineral balancing and simple lifestyle habits can improve cancer recovery, metabolic health, and menopausal symptoms.​ 🔑 Key Insight “Food is truly the best medicine. And joy.”​ -Dori Martin 🌐 Connect with Dori Martin: Website: https://www.dorimartin.com Instagram Facebook Facebook Group: Keto Kickstart Collaborative (therapeutic and customizable low carb/keto support)​ 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 In this special New Year’s Day solo episode, host Robyn Dobbins shares big updates about her work, including her new role with Metabolic Collective, changes to her Harbinger of Health practice, and how the free NEST support group is evolving. She also explains why Ketobiography remains at the heart of her advocacy, how she’s simplifying social media, and how to stay connected through her newsletter and Linktree. Finally, Robyn reveals exciting details about hosting a Dallas-area theatrical screening of The Cholesterol Code documentary in April 2026 and why all proceeds will support Metabolic Collective’s mission.​​ 🎥 *Cholesterol Code Documentary Screening* Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026Time: 7:00 PM CDT (approx. 2‑hour event)Location: Studio Movie Grill – The Colony 🎟️ Purchase tickets: https://www.robyndobbins.com/documentary ⏳ Chapters0:00 – New Year’s welcome and why this update matters 0:35 – Joining Metabolic Collective and creating advocacy community 5:35 – Harbinger of Health, pausing coaching, and the free NEST group 7:50 – Ketobiography’s future and simplifying social media/newsletter 11:11 – The Cholesterol Code documentary and Dallas screening details 💡 What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeWhy Robyn joined Metabolic Collective and how its “watering hole” events turn advocacy ideas into action.How Metabolic Collective gathers, supports, and amplifies grassroots advocacy projects through community, not just science.​Why Robyn paused her Harbinger of Health coaching practice while maintaining NEST, a free support group on Signal.How Ketobiography will continue unchanged as a therapeutic, story-centered podcast while its social media presence moves to Robyn’s personal accounts.Details about the April 15, 2026 screening of The Cholesterol Code documentary in Dallas, with all proceeds benefiting Metabolic Collective.​🔑 Key Insight“I don’t think that payment should be a barrier to success. So, this is a free group where we just help each other out… we help each other through the hard times and we celebrate each other during the good times.”  -Robyn Dobbins 🌐 Links MentionedWebsite: New home for Harbinger of Health, LLC and Ketobiography https://www.robyndobbins.com Join NEST: Free support community [email protected] Nominate a Guest for Ketobiography: [email protected] Subscribe to Substack:  https://robynrdobbins.substack.com Social media:  Robyn’s personal pages are now the home for Ketobiography Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/robyn.dobbins X:  https://x.com/robynrdobbins Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/robynrdobbins LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-dobbins-59bb1653 🔗 Find links to all interviews, social media, and website here: Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 In this Christmas encore of a listener favorite, Ketobiography revisits the powerful story of Christine Trimpe, a former corporate accountant who was 100 pounds overweight, exhausted, and trapped in yo-yo dieting before a “mountain moment” pushed her to reclaim her health. She shares how addressing sleep apnea, fatty liver, and sugar addiction through keto, low carb, and her SugarFreed® method transformed not only her body but also her energy, emotions, and sense of purpose.​​ 💡 What you’ll Learn in this Episode How a single hard wake-up call on a Colorado hiking trail became the turning point after 30 years of yo-yo dieting and chronic fatigue.​Why tackling sleep issues, fatty liver, and sugar addiction was crucial before sustainable weight loss and better metabolic health could happen.​The practical first steps she took to quit sugar, lower carbs, and transition to a simple, sustainable ketogenic way of eating. keeping carbs under 20 grams per day.​How better nutrition quieted food noise, lifted mood, reduced pain and inflammation, and improved emotional regulation and daily energy.​What the SugarFreed® method is, why she now coaches women through sugar addiction recovery, and how journaling can help you write your own “ketobiography.”​​ 🔑 Key Insight “I never thought I’d find freedom from sugar, exhaustion, and yo-yo diets—but once I experienced this healing, I knew I could never unsee what was possible.”​ -Christine Trimpe 🌐 Connect with Christine Website: https://christinetrimpe.com​Weight-loss & SugarFreed® program: https://christinetrimpe.com/weight-loss/Blog & resources: https://joyfulketolife.com​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachchristinetrimpe​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoyfulKetoLifePage 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 In this episode of Ketobiography, Robyn sits down with recovery coach and somatic psychologist Kristina Dobyns to explore what it really takes to heal from binge eating, food addiction, and the binge–shame–repeat cycle. Kristina shares how trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and diet culture collide, and why lasting recovery requires working with the body, not against it. Together, they discuss animal-based nutrition, somatic tools, and science-backed strategies to create safety, reduce cravings, and build a sane, sustainable relationship with food. 💡 What you’ll learn in this episode Why binge eating, emotional eating, and food obsession are rooted in biology and nervous system patterns rather than personal failure.How Kristina uses somatic psychology, sensory strategies, and interoceptive awareness to help women interrupt automatic binge cycles.The role of animal-based nutrition and metabolic health in stabilizing mood, cravings, and energy during recovery.How abstinence from trigger foods can coexist with flexibility, self-compassion, and a non-dogmatic approach to healing.Simple, doable practices you can start using now to create safety in your body and move beyond the binge–shame–repeat cycle. 🔑 Key Insight “Recovery becomes possible when you stop fighting your body and start working with your biology, your nervous system, and your story—one compassionate choice at a time.” -Kristina Dobyns 🌐 Connect with Kristina Website:  https://beyondbingeeating.com Beyond Binge Eating Podcast – https://beyondbingeeating.com/podcast/ Instagram: @beyondbingeeating  🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 This is the second episode in a two-part Ketobiography series featuring investigative science writer and “science-help” author of Going Menopostal, Amy Alkon. In Part 2, we go deeper into the realities of navigating menopause care in real time—from fighting for proper progesterone and estradiol dosing, to demanding pain relief for gynecologic procedures, to pushing back when doctors downplay risks or dismiss symptoms. This conversation is raw, practical, and aimed at helping women replace self-doubt and “being polite” with informed, unapologetic self-advocacy.​​ 💡 What you’ll Learn in this Episode Why oral micronized progesterone (at an adequate dose) is critical for both symptom relief and cancer protection in perimenopause.​​How estradiol can support sleep, bladder function, cardiovascular health, and bone protection in menopause when used appropriately.​​The dangers of under-dosing hormones, relying on unregulated creams, or using poorly chosen drug combinations without understanding “class effects.”​​What shared decision-making actually looks like in practice—and how to recognize a doctor who is willing to partner with you instead of talking over you.​How and why to insist on pain relief for procedures like IUD insertion, removal, and biopsies, and why “it’s just a pinch” is not acceptable care.​ 🔑 Key Insight “You have a right to pain relief. You have a right to informed consent. Being high in agreeableness isn’t a mandate—you can be brave, stand up for yourself, and be proud that you did.”​ -Amy Alkon 🌐 Connect with Amy Alkon Website ​X Substack newsletter “Science Made Practical” https://sciencemadepractical.amyalkon.net Instagram 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 Award-winning science writer Amy Alkon joins Ketobiography to discuss her new book, "Going Menopostal," and uncover the gaps between medical practice and real science in menopause and perimenopause care. In this first of a two-part series, Amy shares her personal journey, breaks down the most common myths, and offers empowering advice on self-advocacy, science-based treatments, and asking better questions in the doctor’s office. 💡 What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeWhy so much menopause care is based on myth, not science​How evidence-based thinking can empower your health decisions​Why most doctors lack menopause training—and what you can do about it​The real difference between perimenopause and menopause, scientifically​How to ask better questions and advocate for yourself at the doctor’s office​ 🔑 Key Insight "Be a pain…and be proud. Proud. Proud. You’re your best advocate. You can’t expect somebody else to do it for you. So, if it means taking a step into a direction that might be a little bit more ugly, then do it—it’s worth it." — Amy Alkon​ 🌐 Connect with Amy AlkonWebsite: https://www.amyalkon.net​ X (Twitter): @amyalkon​ Substack Newsletter: Science Made Practical Instagram: @amyalkonbookstagram 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 This episode of Brain Heal(th), hosted by Eddie Rodriguez and reposted on Ketobiography with permission, features Robyn Dobbins—a certified health advisor with the Nutrition Network, dedicated to evidence-based metabolic therapies for mental wellness. Robyn shares her candid journey through bipolar disorder, antidepressant and antipsychotic management, major life transitions, and ultimately a sustained recovery achieved through ketogenic and NSNG (No Sugar, No Grain) nutrition and thriving community support.​ 💡 What You’ll Learn in this Episode How Robyn’s personal battle with mental health and medication led to a transformation via metabolic therapy and nutritional intervention.​The profound impact of NSNG and ketogenic approaches on weight loss, energy, and emotional stability.​Why prioritizing lab work and individualized care became central to Robyn’s mental wellness and overall health journey.​The critical role of family, accountability, and peer community in sustaining progress and resilience.​Insights into Robyn’s coaching practice, her work with Metabolic Collective, and the power of grassroots advocacy for broader access to metabolic therapies.​ 🔑 Key Insight "You see how life is just wide open for you in a way that was never possible before... It doesn’t hurt to try, but with the caveat, if you’re on medication, you need to still work with a provider” — Robyn Dobbins.​ 🌐 Connect with Robyn Dobbins Harbinger of Health LinktreeX (Twitter): @RobynRDobbins​​Metabolic Collective 🌐 Connect with Brain Heal(th) FacebookInstagramTikTokX (Twitter)YouTube Reposted on Ketobiography with full permission from Eddie Rodriguez and Brain Heal(th). For more, follow both Robyn Dobbins and Brain Heal(th) at the links above to stay inspired and informed. 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 This episode of Ketobiography features Nathan Leary with an inspiring, first-person account of overcoming a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, facing countless obstacles on the way to renewed mental and physical health, and transforming hardship into advocacy. He shares how radical transparency, relentless research, and a ketogenic lifestyle changed not only his medical markers but his entire path in life, fueling his mission to offer hope and practical resources to others facing serious mental health challenges. 💡 What You’ll Learn in this Episode The personal journey from crisis and isolation after a schizophrenia diagnosis to stable, thriving mental health through lifestyle change.​The challenges and risks of navigating psychiatric medications and why transparent collaboration with medical professionals is vital.​How a ketogenic diet began to deliver improvements—like normalized blood pressure, cholesterol, and mood—in less than a year.​The motivation behind launching StopTheVoices.com and LikeLifeMore.com, plus the importance of bite-sized, instantly-shareable mental health resources.​Practical advice for others seeking hope and concrete first steps for their own mental health journeys, grounded in lived experience.​ 🔑 Key Insight "The food that we eat is the seed of our mind. It creates all the neurotransmitters, all the energy. It creates everything that's in our body and in our brain. And... I see it like, if you have a heart attack, you don't want to go back to eating fried chicken and processed foods. You just don't want to take the risk.”​ 🌐 Connect with Nathan Websites: StopTheVoices & LikeLifeMore Social Media: @nathanleary82 on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 In this episode, Harmony Bright shares her extraordinary journey—overcoming depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, chronic inflammation, obesity, and metabolic syndrome using therapeutic ketogenic nutrition. After years of being reliant on psychiatric medications, Harmony courageously experimented with metabolic therapies, resulting in profound improvements in both her mental and physical health. She takes us through the hardest moments of her transformation, the challenges of medication withdrawal, the impact of community support, and how individualized keto strategies have empowered her to reclaim her life and wellness. ⏳ Chapters  00:00 – Introduction & Harmony’s Background05:00 – Schizophrenia Diagnosis and Early Struggles12:00 – Life on Psychiatric Medications17:00 – Health and Mobility Crisis24:00 – Surgeries, Determination, and the Search for Answers30:00 – Discovering and Adopting a Ketogenic Diet38:00 – Tapering Medication the First Time45:00 – Relapse, Ketone Insights, and Second Taper53:00 – Nutrition, Fasting, and Movement Strategies1:03:00 – Advice for Others & Final Reflections 💡 What You’ll Learn in this Episode How a ketogenic diet can impact both mental and metabolic health.The realities and strategies of tapering psychiatric medication safely.The importance of individualized nutrition, fasting, and exercise.How family and community support are crucial during health transformation.Tips for maintaining therapeutic ketosis and troubleshooting keto side effects. 🔑 Key Insight “Everything has been a learning experience—driving again, engaging with friends, relearning how to live. I was so dysfunctional. Now I’m learning everything again, and that’s the power of taking control through diet, not just meds.” -Harmony Bright 🌐 Connect with Harmony Bright X: @bright_har6612Instagram: Harmonybright1000 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 Registered dietitian, author, and ultra-endurance athlete Michelle Hurn joins Ketobiography to share her journey from recovering from an eating disorder to transforming nutrition advocacy. Dive deep into Michelle’s work in metabolic health, her fight against conventional dietary dogma, and her innovative projects—like the Protein Project—bringing real nutrition to food banks. This inspiring episode explores radical honesty, the need for grassroots change, and ways anyone can support true nourishment in their communities. ⏳ Chapters 00:00 – Introduction & Michelle’s background 04:00 – Surviving and healing from eating disorders 12:00 – Leaving conventional nutrition to challenge dogma 18:00 – The connection between metabolic health and mental health 25:00 – Building the American Diabetes Society’s new mission 32:00 – Real-life impact: Protein Project and food bank nutrition 44:00 – How listeners can get involved with advocacy 48:00 – Individualized nutrition for athletes and diabetics 52:00 – Radical honesty and grassroots cultural change 56:00 – Final thoughts and how to start your journey 💡 What you’ll Learn in this Episode Why mainstream nutrition guidelines often fail, and what actually supports metabolic healthThe story behind Michelle’s books and donations to food banksHow diet impacts both physical and mental health in real patientsThe steps and challenges of launching a truly independent health nonprofitActionable advice for grassroots advocacy and self-empowerment in community nutrition🔑 Key Insight "First, take care of you. First, make sure you are a mentally stable, physically healthy human. That’s going to reflect to your family. Then look at your community... If everyone did a little bit, it would make a huge impact." -Michelle Hurn 🌐 Connect with Michelle Hurn Dietitians Dilemma Website Instagram: @runeatmeatrepeat Twitter: @MichelleHurnRD 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📋 This episode of Ketobiography shares the powerful recovery and transformation of Linda Witnov, a woman who spent decades wrestling with food obsession, sugar addiction, and bulimia. Drawing from her background in teaching and psychology, she reveals the impact of family, culture, and shame on the battle for lasting change. Hear how she discovered keto, made peace with her body, and now coaches others—especially women—toward emotional healing and sustainable wellness. ⏳ Chapters 00:00Introduction & Welcome03:00Linda’s Story Begins: Family, Early Food Memories10:00Overeating, Body Image, and Shame in Childhood17:00Starting Diets: Weight Watchers and Diet Culture in the 1960s23:00First Experiences with Eating Disorders28:00Double Life: Discipline and Secret Binging in Early Adulthood36:00Therapy, Healing, and Gradually Overcoming Bulimia43:00Discovering Atkins and Low-Carb Living50:00Rebuilding Habits, Coaching Philosophy, and Moving Beyond Shame58:00Advice for Listeners and Closing Reflections 💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode How early family experiences and culture can shape body image and eating habitsThe intersection of addiction, bulimia, and secretive food behaviors—and how these cycles are brokenWhy psychotherapy and low-carb eating worked together to promote long-term healing and self-acceptancePractical coaching methods that focus on gradual, personalized change, particularly for women in midlife and beyondThe critical importance of community, compassion, and perseverance on the path to freedom 🔑 Key Insight “Don’t give up. Keep trying different things. It doesn’t happen as quickly as we humans want it to… It’s experimenting, being a scientist, and having compassion for yourself. It’s not going to be overnight, and that’s okay. It’s totally worth it. Don’t give up.” -Linda Witnov 🌐 Connect with Linda Witnov Rise Up Slim Down Email: [email protected] 🎟️ Grab your ticket for The Cholesterol Code theatrical screening! 🎟️ 🎧 Listen to more Ketobiography episodes every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🔗 Subscribe + follow + leave a review to support the show! 🌱 Know someone with a Keto success story? Nominate them! 👤 Connect with Robyn: https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.