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📣 Anna Vocino built Eat Happy Kitchen from a personal health need into a business in roughly 1,000 grocery stores nationwide — and she's opening up about what that actually costs. This is an honest look at pricing, pressure, and the boundaries behind a premium food brand most people only see on social media. 📋 Anna returns to Ketobiography for a conversation that skips her personal health story — you can hear that one on Less of Me Success Stories Episode 23 — and goes straight into the business side of Eat Happy Kitchen: how pasta sauce actually gets priced, why grocery distributors can make or break a small brand, and what it took to go from a self-funded pre-order launch to national shelf space. Anna also opens up about a health scare tied to business stress, and the boundary she had to set to protect herself. Plus, a first look at her new cookbook, Eat Happy Cocktail Hour, dropping October 13th. 🔑 What You'll Learn How grocery stores and distributors actually price a jar of pasta sauceWhy "premium" food brands operate on razor-thin margins compared to mass brandsThe pre-order strategy Anna used to self-fund her first product launchHow giving away free content built the trust that sustains her business todayWhy she had to set a hard boundary between her health and her company's stress 💡 Key Insight "This business is really important to me, but it's not worth me getting sick over." — Anna Vocino 🌐 Connect with Anna Vocino https://annavocino.com https://eathappykitchen.com https://eathappycocktailhour.com https://instagram.com/annavocino https://twitter.com/AnnaVocino https://facebook.com/AnnaVocino https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnaVocino https://annavocino.substack.com Hear Anna's personal health story on Less of Me Success Stories Episode 23: https://youtube.com/live/iibYV1YNHfg 🛒 Order Eat Happy Kitchen products through Robyn's affiliate link: https://eathappykitchen.com?bg_ref=2Hok4wEoek ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 2:07 The Retargeting Ads Are Working 3:41 Behind the Curtain of Grocery Store Pricing 7:23 Why Premium Food Margins Are a Herculean Feat 8:58 What Grocery Distributors Really Take 10:44 The New Cookbook Eat Happy Cocktail Hour 13:15 Building a Mixology Chapter Without the Sugar 31:45 Becoming a Business Mogul, Whether She Likes It or Not 39:33 Mentoring Others Through the Business Journey 43:32 Launching Eat Happy Kitchen One Pre-Order at a Time 47:46 What Grocery Distributors Don't Care About 52:53 The Health Boundary She Had to Draw 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Natasha Smikles is a registered psychiatric nurse with about 20 years in mental health care who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. She shares how she went from ADHD medication to a ketogenic diet, and what changed for her. 📋 Natasha spent most of her career in Manitoba, working in acute psychiatry and crisis services and building a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program in Winnipeg. In this conversation with Robyn, she walks through the day a dog bath led her to ask whether she had ADHD, what the medication did for her and cost her, and what happened when she tried a ketogenic diet again. She also talks about how that experience changed her work, and about the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit she is co-hosting. 🔑 What You'll Learn - How an adult ADHD diagnosis can follow years of building systems and rituals to cope - Why Natasha stopped ADHD medication, including the day food tasted like cardboard - What changed on a ketogenic diet: steadier mood, clearer memory, and no panic attacks - Why a DBT therapist began to wonder whether biology should come first - What the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit offers, and why lived experience is a big part of it 💡 Key Insight "I couldn't regulate my nervous system to be able to do it. It was like a biological thing that had to be fixed." — Natasha Smikles 🌐 Connect with Natasha https://www.natashasmikles.com https://www.instagram.com/natasha.smikles/ https://x.com/NatashaSmikles https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-smikles-93753523a/ 💚 Metabolic Psychiatry Summit October 21-25, 2026 https://summit.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 3:08 Psychiatric Nursing, DBT, and Metabolic Psychiatry 4:24 Diagnosed with ADHD as an Adult 8:00 The Dog Bath Day That Raised the ADHD Question 15:47 ADHD Medication, Anxiety, and Side Effects 21:55 First Try at a Ketogenic Diet in 2016 25:36 Chris Palmer, Brain Energy, and Starting Keto for ADHD 26:32 Calmer Mood, Clearer Memory, and No More Panic Attacks 30:09 Fixing the Biology First: A DBT Therapist's Career Shift 35:01 DBT and Ketogenic Therapy With Clients 43:08 The Metabolic Psychiatry Summit and the Ripple Effect 49:49 Painting Nails in Acute Psychiatry: Impact You Never See 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Mike Collins has been sugar-free for over three decades, and he believes sugar meets every clinical requirement of a substance use disorder. The founder of SugarAddiction.com and the Quit Sugar Summit breaks down the science, the stigma, and what's coming next. 📋 Mike, known as the original Sugar-Free Man, walks through how growing up with a mother who equated sugar with love shaped his own journey — and how that experience, paired with his background in addiction recovery, led him to found SugarAddiction.com and eventually the Quit Sugar Summit. We talk about raising his kids sugar-free from the womb, the science connecting fructose to the brain's reward system, and the intersection of metabolic psychiatry and addiction recovery driving his upcoming Metabolic Psychiatry Summit. 🔑 What You'll Learn Why Mike believes sugar meets the clinical definition of a substance use disorderHow raising his kids sugar-free from birth shaped his view on food and the brainThe nonprofit fundraising model behind the Quit Sugar SummitWhat's coming in the upcoming Metabolic Psychiatry SummitWhy he won't name one "right" diet after interviewing every camp from vegan to carnivore 💡 Key Insight "Treatment is discovery, and meetings are recovery." — Mike Collins 🌐 Connect with Mike Collins https://sugaraddiction.com https://sugardetox.com https://www.facebook.com/personinrecovery https://www.instagram.com/realsugarfreeman https://x.com/SugarDetox 🎟️ Register for the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit https://summit.robyndobbins.com ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 3:22 Mike's Mother and Growing Up on Sugar 7:10 Raising Kids Sugar-Free From the Womb 9:03 Founding SugarAddiction.com 10:38 Fructose, the Brain, and the Sugar Addiction Theory 12:27 Quit Sugar Summit's Nonprofit Fundraising Model 18:51 Is Sugar a Substance Use Disorder? 21:54 Metabolic Psychiatry Meets Addiction Recovery 26:55 Why Mike Won't Name One Official Diet 38:01 12 Years of Quit Sugar Summit 41:52 Inside the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit 1:04:34 What Is Therapeutic Ketosis? 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 A US Air Force veteran and registered nurse spent two years lost inside a brain and body that no longer felt like her own. Then a ketogenic diet did what years of therapy, medication, and a PTSD residential program could not. 📋 Rebecca Austin is a nurse working at a direct primary care metabolic health clinic in the Pacific Northwest — but before that, she spent two years cycling through PTSD, anxiety, and depression after what she calls the day her "trauma bucket" finally overflowed. She tried antidepressants, EMDR, psychedelics, a PTSD residential program for veterans and first responders — nothing held. Then she found metabolic psychiatry through Nicole Laurent, and within five days of starting a ketogenic diet, her brain came back online. In this conversation, Rebecca walks through the two years she calls hell, what actually changed things, and the future she's building — from becoming a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to her dream of a treatment center built on nutrition instead of trauma excavation. 🔑 What You'll Learn How a "trauma bucket" analogy helped Rebecca make sense of her own mental health crisisWhy a PTSD diagnosis didn't fully capture what she was experiencingHow a licensed mental health counselor and a ketogenic diet changed her brain function within five daysWhy Rebecca is going back to school to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitionerWhat her dream mental health treatment resort would look like, and why it wouldn't focus on trauma reprocessing 💡 Key Insight "The electricity is back on in my brain." — Rebecca Austin 🌐 Connect with Rebecca Austin https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_austin_rn/ 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 3:50 Rebecca's Background and Air Force Service 10:58 Nurse Burnout and a Growing Trauma Bucket 12:45 The Day Her Brain Broke 17:52 Residential PTSD Treatment 21:40 Finding Warrior Path and Metabolic Psychiatry 23:31 Discovering Nicole Laurent 38:51 Starting the Ketogenic Diet 45:09 The Ketosis Breakthrough 1:02:56 Direct Primary Care and Metabolic Health 1:20:44 A Vision for a Mental Health Treatment Resort 1:29:09 Where to Find Rebecca 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Christy Kriese didn't leave her house for two and a half months. Then real food brought her back, and she never picked up the medication her psychiatrist wanted to add next. 📋 This is Christy's first-ever podcast appearance, originally recorded on Less of Me Success Stories in August 2024. She walks through a childhood of trauma and neglect, a 22-year history with depression and anxiety medication, and a post-viral illness that triggered the worst episode of her life. Bone broth was her first bite back, and carnivore became the thing that finally held. 🔑 What You'll Learn How a post-viral illness triggered her worst depressive episode yetWhy bone broth was her first step back to eatingThe physical changes she didn't expect from carnivore, from motion sickness to joint painWhat 22 years of medication tapering actually looked likeWhy she believes both medication and nutrition have a place in recovery 💡 Key Insight "I don't crave anything. It's just literally given my life back." — Christy Kriese 🌐 Connect with Christy Kriese https://www.facebook.com/christy.kriese https://x.com/melovinjesus ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:00 Why I'm Replaying This Episode 0:42 Welcome and Show Introduction 2:15 Introducing Christy Kriese 3:43 Childhood Trauma and the Roots of Anxiety 7:09 First Major Panic Attack and Early Depressive Episodes 13:09 Medication, Motherhood, and Years of Stability 16:51 A Post-Viral Illness Changes Everything 21:07 A Breaking Point and the First Psychiatrist Visit 28:10 A Difficult Medication Trial and a Turning Point 33:48 Reaching Out to Robyn — Bone Broth and First Bites 37:54 Tracking the Changes — Mental and Physical Shifts 44:00 Community Q&A 1:02:50 Final Advice and Closing 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Two years ago, Christy Kriese was bedridden, unable to leave the house, and unsure she'd ever feel like herself again. Today, she's back to share what's changed — for her, and for almost her entire family. 📋 A return guest from the show's earliest days as Less of Me Success Stories, Christy Kriese joins Robyn for a reunion conversation covering the two years since her original appearance. They dig into what happens when medications are tapered too quickly, how a strict carnivore approach became the turning point in her recovery, and how that recovery rippled out to her husband, her son, her son-in-law, her daughter, her grandkids, and her brother-in-law — each finding their own version of healing along the way. 🔑 What You'll Learn How a rushed medication taper led to a mental health crisis and four different drugs in four weeksWhy cyclical depression is different from a bipolar diagnosis, and how that distinction got missedThe first physical signs of healing Christy noticed after starting carnivore, and how quickly they showed upHow her husband's degenerative eye disease has improved over two years on carnivoreWhy feeling well, not tracking numbers, has been her most reliable guide throughout 💡 Key Insight "I have zero cravings for anything ever. It becomes like a finely tuned — this is just what you do — thing. Like showering, brushing your teeth." — Christy Kriese 🌐 Connect with Christy Kriese Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christy.kriese X: https://x.com/melovinjesus 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:00 Why I'm Replaying This Episode 1:25 Welcome Back: Christy's Return 5:22 Cyclical Depression and the COVID Turning Point 8:28 Deprescribing Gone Wrong 10:43 The $2,600 Psychiatrist and Four Medications in Four Weeks 15:22 What Nobody Talks About: Deprescribing Risks 17:47 From Bedbound to Carnivore: The First Days 24:14 Day Eight Sleep, 890 Days of Feeling Better 25:22 How the Whole Family Joined In 44:28 One-on-Ones, Metabolic Collective, and Helping Others 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Robyn Dobbins spent years on antipsychotics and antidepressants for bipolar disorder, OCD, and depression before a cholesterol scare led her somewhere she didn't expect. 📋 This is a replay of Robyn's appearance on Robert Sikes' podcast, Savage Perspective. She and Robert talk through her full story — the high cholesterol diagnosis at 40 that started everything, the decades of undiagnosed and diagnosed mental illness underneath it, and the ketogenic diet that eventually brought her into remission from all of it. 🔑 What You'll Learn How a routine cholesterol check at 40 led Robyn to try diet before statinsWhat years of undiagnosed depression, then diagnosed bipolar disorder and OCD, actually looked like day to dayHow a psychiatric medication merry-go-round left her without a sense of wellness for over a decadeHow hearing Dr. Georgia Ede on a podcast helped her connect her mental health to her dietWhy a sweet potato experiment confirmed she can't go back, even for whole foods 💡 "I don't care about the mechanism. I'm living this every day." — Robyn Dobbins 🌐 Original Episode Watch the full original appearance: https://youtu.be/3g51KKcHMj0 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:00 Welcome and intro 0:45 Who Is Robyn Dobbins—and Why Is She in Cholesterol Code? 1:31 How High Cholesterol Led Robyn Dobbins to Keto 4:23 Can a Ketogenic Diet Improve Mental Health? 7:35 What Did Decades of Depression Look Like? 11:43 Why Are Depression Rates Rising in Young People? 13:00 How Processed Foods May Affect Brain Health 16:06 Are Smartphones and Social Media Harming Kids? 22:30 How Did Postpartum Depression Manifest? 29:16 How Did Her Bipolar and OCD Diagnoses Begin? 32:06 How Are Mental Health Disorders Diagnosed? 37:55 How Mental Illness and Medication Affected Her Family 40:29 How She Realized Diet Had Changed Her Mental Health 43:05 What Does Life After Depression Feel Like? 46:09 How Did Her Children Respond to Her Transformation? 49:11 How Does Keto Affect the Brain? 55:23 Did a Sweet Potato Bring Her Depression Back? 59:20 What Does Robyn Dobbins Eat in a Typical Day? 1:02:51 What's Next for Robyn Dobbins? 1:05:43 Where to Follow Robyn and Ketobiography 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 A family medicine physician who built her career on evidence found herself facing things she couldn't measure. Dr. Laura Buchanan shares how low-carb medicine, menopause care, and a series of unexplainable events reshaped both her practice and her faith. 📋 Dr. Laura Buchanan practices low-carb, metabolic health medicine at Toward Health alongside Dr. Tro Kalayjian, after her own frustration with standard nutrition training led her to ketogenic and low-carb approaches during residency. She talks with Robyn about using CGMs to catch hidden blood sugar spikes, the pushback she faced early in her career for recommending low-carb over insulin, and the gaps she found in how menopause is treated in women's healthcare. The conversation then turns personal, as Dr. Buchanan describes a string of events she couldn't explain away — leading her to write her new memoir, Make It Be So, about the collision between an evidence-trained mind and faith. 🔑 What You'll Learn How Dr. Buchanan transitioned from standard medical training into a low-carb, metabolic health-focused practiceWhy continuous glucose monitors can reveal hidden blood sugar spikes from "healthy" processed foodsThe overlooked role of menopause and hormone therapy in anxiety, joint pain, and other misdiagnosed symptomsWhat genitourinary syndrome of menopause is and why so few women get treated for itThe series of unexplainable events that led Dr. Buchanan to write her new memoir on faith and medicine 💡 Key Insight "Stay open, be less stubborn, stop dismissing whatever it is that you don't initially understand." — Dr. Laura Buchanan 🌐 Connect with Dr. Laura Buchanan https://toward.health/providers/dr-laura-buchanan/ https://x.com/LauraBuchananMD https://www.instagram.com/laurabuchananmd/ Book, Make It Be So: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1972582003 ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 2:44 Growing Up and Watching Her Grandparents Age 4:30 Discovering Low Carb in Medical School 6:22 Practicing Low Carb Through Residency 9:46 Pushback From the Hospital System 16:12 Joining Dr. Tro at Toward Health 20:26 Why Metabolic Health Is Mental Health 25:01 The Gap in Menopause Care 34:10 Genitourinary Syndrome and Overlooked Symptoms 42:04 Introducing the New Book, Make It Be So 44:48 The Guardian Angel Dream and God Incidents 58:12 How Faith Has Changed Her Practice 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Traveling can throw off even the most disciplined ketogenic or carnivore routine — unless you have a system. Dr. Kristina Dobyns returns to Ketobiography with the toolkit she actually uses to stay stable, fed, and regulated no matter where she lands. 📋 Kristina first joined the show back in episode 29. This time, she came with a cheat sheet built around one theme: stability despite moving variables. From electrolyte strategies and sleep protection to what's actually in her travel bag, this episode is a full walkthrough of how she stays grounded — physically and mentally — through flights, time zones, and unfamiliar kitchens. She also shares an update on an idea she first mentioned in her last appearance: a retreat that's now real. 🔑 What You'll Learn Why salt and electrolytes are a daily non-negotiable, and how to travel with themHow morning sunlight and blue light control support sleep and circadian rhythm across time zonesHow to eat well on the road: booking a kitchen, stocking staples, packing shelf-stable foodWhat's in her travel sensory kit, and why each piece mattersThe skill of knowing when to disconnect versus stay connected 💡 "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good... it's not about never being off — it's how quickly you can practice coming back to center." — Dr. Kristina Dobyns 🌐 Connect with Dr. Kristina Dobyns https://drkristinadobyns.com https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBingeEating 🧘 Meat & Movement A keto- and carnivore-inclusive yoga, movement, and wellness retreat in Costa Rica, built so guests aren't fighting the menu to stay nourished. https://meatandmovement.com 🎒 Featured in This Episode Blue Light Blockers: https://www.swanwicksleep.com Eye Mask: https://www.tempurpedic.com/other-products/sleep-mask/v/797/ Loop Ear Plugs: https://l1nk.dev/2m8txmz Salt with Electrolytes: https://sl1nk.com/7k7nluy Article — How to Travel the World Without Jet Lag: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2829880/ 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Welcome Back, Dr. Kristina Dobyns 3:17 Theme: Stability Despite Moving Variables 3:38 Electrolytes & Salt Strategies for Travel 9:31 Sleep: Morning Sunlight & Blue Light Blockers 11:33 Sleep Masks & Circadian Rhythm Science 17:22 Movement Every Day, No Matter Where 21:19 Food Prep: Airbnbs, Staples & Kitchen Strategy 28:09 Shelf-Stable Snacks, Pemmican & Fasting as an Option 30:54 Building a Travel Go-Bag & Sensory Kit 40:22 Internal Resources: Connect vs. Disconnect 43:17 The Gratitude Practice 44:53 Self-Compassion & Returning to Equilibrium 47:04 Introducing Meat & Movement 55:01 Where to Find Dr. Kristina Dobyns 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Step 4 — Acast Description (Episode 63) 📣 Robert Sikes built his pro bodybuilding card on a diet no one thought belonged in the sport. Before keto, disordered eating and OCD nearly took him out completely. 📋 Robert is a WNBF/OCB natural pro bodybuilder, the creator of Keto Brick, and the author of Ketogenic Bodybuilding. In this conversation, he talks about the bro-dieting years that wrecked his health, the self-experimentation that led him to earn his pro card on keto with zero coaches or roadmap to follow, and how he's built a business and a life around solving problems he lived through himself — food, training, even the clothes on his back. We also get into fatherhood, homesteading, and how he's learned to work with his OCD instead of against it. 🔑 What You'll Learn How disordered eating and "bro dieting" nearly ended his bodybuilding career before keto changed everythingWhy he pioneered ketogenic bodybuilding with no coaches or precedent to followHow OCD shaped his training and macro tracking, and how he learned to redirect itWhat led him to create Keto Brick and build a business around solving his own problemHow natural living, homesteading, and parenting shape his approach to health today 💡 "There is no such thing as maintenance. You are either getting better or you are getting worse." — Robert Sikes 🌐 Connect with Robert Sikes https://ketosavage.com https://x.com/ketosavage https://www.instagram.com/ketosavage https://www.youtube.com/@Ketosavage https://www.ketobrick.com https://www.ketobodybuilding.com https://pod.link/1169900822 ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Welcome and intro 3:37 From scrawny teen to first competition and disordered eating 5:54 Finding keto by accident and launching Keto Savage 7:27 Building Keto Brick and the new apparel line 11:25 Getting "red-pilled" — cutting out toxins at home 14:13 The birth story that changed things 21:22 Coaching, natural bodybuilding rules, and supplements 23:18 OCD: origins, triggers, and reframing it as a tool 35:30 Muscle, aging, his dad's cancer, and entrepreneurship 44:30 Building an AI coaching tool, homesteading, and closing thoughts 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Nine years ago, the day after her 40th birthday, Robyn Dobbins changed her diet to avoid a statin. On the anniversary of that decision, she's finally speaking publicly about the hardest three years since. 📋 This episode is a replay of Robyn's conversation on Find Your Keto, hosted by Steven Trunce. It goes far beyond the story most people know — covering her childhood, her bipolar diagnosis, her ongoing fight with Hashimoto's, and the physical and emotional setbacks of the past three years, including her mother's death, her father's hospitalization, and an unexplained wave of joint pain and brain fog tied to perimenopause. 🔑 What You'll Learn Why Robyn's childhood memories before 7th grade are largely inaccessible, and how rigid family Christmas traditions shaped her adulthoodHow she found ketosis completely by accident after a routine doctor visit at 39, and why NSNG became her lifelong foundationWhy she still struggles with Hashimoto's despite years of a clean, low-carb diet — and what that reveals about "cured" claims onlineThe physical and emotional setbacks of the last three years, from unexplained joint pain to losing her mother and nearly losing her fatherWhy she believes personal stories carry as much weight as the science in the metabolic health movement 💡 Key Insight "It's my story, and it doesn't change." — Robyn Dobbins 🌐 Original Episode Watch the full original appearance on Find Your Keto: https://youtu.be/XjiM3Slq7gQ 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:00 Intro & Reflection 0:53 Welcome to Find Your Keto 3:05 Podcast Styles & Being Silly 11:07 Lighting, EMFs & Prioritizing How She Feels 15:22 Childhood: Single-Parent Home & Learning to Cook 18:52 Earliest Memories & the Seventh Grade Shift 22:27 Family Mental Health & Christmas Rules 32:09 High School Rejection & Confidence Struggles 36:34 Feeling Like a "Toddler" & Unexpected Recognition 41:03 Discovering Ketosis by Accident 46:41 Information Overload & the Fire Diet Plan 48:41 Hashimoto's & Distrust of "Cures" 56:04 Find Your Keto: Why One Plan Doesn't Fit All 1:02:33 Diet Before Keto: Pop-Tarts, Cereal & Ice Cream 1:05:39 The Diagnosis That Started NSNG 1:07:52 The First Six Months & a Year of Carnivore 1:16:23 Sweeteners, Cravings & Knowing Your Own Rules 1:29:57 Struggles, Setbacks & Recovery 1:39:58 Perimenopause, Her Dad's Hospitalization & Brain Fog 1:49:05 Barbells, Kettlebells & Becoming "Shoulders" 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Erin Paruszewski spent years as a cardio-obsessed marathoner before realizing the pain she was chasing wasn't doing her any favors. Now she's building functional fitness programs and working alongside Metabolic Mind and Baszucki Group to change how people think about movement and metabolic health. 📋 Erin is the founder of Alkalign Studios and author of It Doesn't Have to Hurt to Work, and now serves as strategic partner to the president at Baszucki Group. In this conversation, she and Robyn talk about the slow shift from cardio-junkie to functional fitness advocate, the gut issues that pushed her to rethink food, and what it's like helping build the metabolic mental health movement from the inside. 🔑 What You'll Learn Why cardio alone quietly wore down her body for years before she noticedWhat "functional fitness" actually means beyond the buzzwordsHow gut issues and lactose intolerance shaped her relationship with foodWhy she built Alkalign around movement that doesn't have to hurt to workHow her fitness background led her to Metabolic Mind and Baszucki Group 💡 Key Insight "Gentle consistency for the win." — Erin Paruszewski 🌐 Connect with Erin Paruszewski https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-paruszewski-6335723/ https://www.instagram.com/erinparuszewski/ https://www.alkalignstudios.com/instructors https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Hurt-Work-Freedom/dp/1982275847 💚 Metabolic Mind & Baszucki Group Metabolic Mind: https://www.metabolicmind.org Baszucki Group: https://baszuckigroup.com ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 1:40 Why "Holistic" Isn't Just a Buzzword 2:22 From Investment Banking to Health and Wellness 8:00 Gut Issues, Lactose Intolerance, and Learning to Eat 17:24 The Book: It Doesn't Have to Hurt to Work 18:11 What Functional Fitness Actually Means 27:47 The Seven Functional Movements 32:09 Alkalign Studios Today and Who It's For 44:28 Becoming Chief of Staff at Baszucki Group 56:13 Raising Daughters Without Body Shame 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 He was hospitalized in the Netherlands with diverticulitis and told it was a mechanical condition — inevitable, permanent, and something he'd just have to manage. Twelve years into keto and one year into carnivore, he has a different answer. 📋 Olaf Kock is a self-described nerd from Hamburg, Germany who found the ketogenic diet in 2012 through a software security podcast and never stopped experimenting. When a CRP of 129 landed him in the emergency room in 2023, he finally went all the way to carnivore — and the inflammation stopped. He also built a free online simulator at butterbei.de that visualizes what food does to your blood sugar and insulin in real time, because he got tired of explaining it on paper. 🔑 What You'll Learn Why a doctor told him his diverticulitis was mechanical and inevitable — and what changed thatHow going zero-fiber carnivore ended years of unpredictable flare-upsWhat a CRP of 129 actually feels like and what it finally took to actHow his free simulator shows both blood sugar and insulin response — something a CGM can't doWhy the German Nutritional Society's own guidelines technically don't apply to him 💡 Key Insight "My motivation is I can stay this way and have no symptoms, or I can continue to eat the way I did before and add in antibiotics from time to time." — Olaf Kock 🌐 Connect with Olaf Kock https://butterbei.de 💚 Metabolic Collective Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metcollective X: https://x.com/metcollective YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 1:36 How Olaf and Robyn Connected Through Metabolic Collective 3:07 Starting at the End: Olaf's Origin Story 4:39 Diverticulitis Diagnosis in the Netherlands 8:16 Finding Keto in 2012 Through a Software Podcast 10:03 Mental Clarity and the Experiment That Never Ended 11:15 Identifying Food Triggers and the Almond Butter Test 12:34 A CRP of 129 and the Decision to Try Carnivore 13:54 The Parents' Dinner Flare-Up and Going Strict 26:49 What Carnivore Changed — and What Keto Already Fixed 37:02 Why Olaf Built the Butterbei Simulator 48:24 Live Demo: Watch the Simulator in Action 48:24 ▶️ Watch the simulator demo as a standalone short: https://youtu.be/VQhl6n8SImw 1:00:11 Olaf's Articles and the German Nutritional Society 1:08:36 Where to Find Olaf and Final Thoughts 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Lori Hill spent years chasing one diagnosis after another before she found the thread connecting all of it. Her Hashimoto's didn't start with her thyroid. It started with a virus nobody had mentioned to her before. 📋 Lori Hill is a personal trainer, nutrition coach, and the founder of MetFix Method, a metabolic health gym built on the belief that chronic disease can be rolled back, not just managed. Robyn met Lori at the Menlo Park screening of The Cholesterol Code — and this conversation is what happened when they finally sat down together. Lori walks through the long, layered version of her health story: undiagnosed insulin resistance from childhood, a body that nearly didn't survive childbirth, a misdiagnosed parasite infection that went untreated for nine months, and an autoimmune thyroid condition she traced back to a latent Epstein-Barr infection. She also talks about perimenopause, hormone replacement done right, and how a carnivore reset became an unexpected turning point in her 49th year. 🔑 What You'll Learn How a latent Epstein-Barr infection can drive autoimmune thyroid diseaseWhat an undiagnosed parasite infection can do to gut health and mental clarity over timeWhy hormone replacement without progesterone can backfire for women in perimenopauseWhat changed when Lori tested a carnivore approach on herself before recommending it to clientsHow MetFix and the Broken Science Initiative are training coaches to address root cause, not just symptoms 💡 Key Insight "It's never too late to reclaim your health and live your best life." — Lori Hill 🌐 Connect with Lori Hill https://www.metfixmethod.com https://www.crossfitsr.com https://www.instagram.com/coachlori925 https://www.tiktok.com/@coachlori925 https://www.youtube.com/@lorihillmetfixmethod ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Welcome and How They Met at the Cholesterol Code Screening 3:51 A Childhood of Undiagnosed Insulin Resistance 8:51 Rock Bottom at 235 Pounds and Finding CrossFit 11:46 The Epstein-Barr Connection Behind Hashimoto's 18:47 Parasites, Misdiagnosis, and a Nine-Month Fight for Answers 34:39 Why Perimenopause Symptoms Aren't Just "Part of Getting Older" 38:09 Hormone Replacement Therapy Done Right 42:52 Testing Carnivore as a Perimenopause Reset 47:50 Inside MetFix and the Broken Science Initiative 59:34 Lifting Heavy, Aging Well, and Skipping the "Old" Word 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Matt Loftis was 575 pounds, bedridden, and told he would never walk again. Today he's an assistant membership director at the YMCA — and training for a 1500-meter open water swim in Scotland. 📋 Note: The episode opens with a title card while audio plays — video clears shortly after the intro. Matt found Vinnie Tortorich's NSNG (No Sugars, No Grains) the way a lot of us do — he heard the right thing at the right moment and something clicked. What followed is one of the most remarkable recovery stories I've had on this show. From a shattered foot, an undiagnosed concussion, and six months unable to speak or move, to losing over 250 pounds, earning his lifeguard certification, becoming a swim instructor, and now preparing to compete in Loch Lomond. This is what forward momentum looks like when you refuse to let a diagnosis be the final word. 🔑 What You'll Learn How one man reversed diabetes and lost 250+ pounds through NSNG after being told he'd never walk againWhy starting with one inch of movement matters more than where you think you should beHow to navigate NSNG eating in the South, including church potlucks and BojanglesWhat it means to see food as fuel rather than comfort or cravingHow community — the right people around you — can be the difference between staying stuck and moving forward 💡 Key Insight "Forward momentum is all you need. You just need forward stepping and you can do it." — Matt Loftis 🌐 Connect with Matt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revloftis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/revloftis GoFundMe — From Rock Bottom to Scotland, My Swim of Hope: https://www.gofundme.com/f/from-rock-bottom-to-scotland-my-swim-of-hope ⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions. ⏳ Chapters 0:47 Introduction 4:06 Growing Up Big and Life on the Road 6:18 The Car Accident That Changed Everything 8:51 Six Months in a Bed 12:29 Calling 911 and Facing the Fire Department 17:01 Hearing Vinnie Tortorich and the NSNG Click 21:13 His Wife's Health and Dirty NSNG 23:57 One Inch at a Time — Learning to Move Again 30:03 From Disability to the YMCA 47:28 250 Pounds Gone and Counting 51:33 The Scotland Dream Becomes a Goal 58:50 GoFundMe and Closing Thoughts 🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms. 🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected] 🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review 👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/ 🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon. 🛒 Eat Happy Kitchen http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com This is an affiliate link and not a sponsor of Ketobiography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.