📣 Rob Harris was a lifetime nonsmoker, metabolically healthy, and doing everything right. Then came the lung cancer diagnosis — metastatic, fast-moving, and devastating. What happened next is a story about what a healthy baseline actually buys you when the unthinkable arrives.

📋 Rob is my dad. He appeared on Episode 6B of Less of Me Success Stories — the predecessor to Ketobiography — and briefly at the end of The Cholesterol Code film. That makes this conversation part of my Cholesterol Code series. This update was a year in the making. We talk about the metabolic foundation Rob built before his diagnosis, what happened when cancer hit hard and fast, how he used targeted therapy, a keto meal replacement, and sheer stubbornness to come back from the edge — and why his oncologist called him a miracle. We also talk about hope: what it does, what losing it looks like, and why it may matter as much as anything else.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• Why a strong metabolic baseline before a crisis may be the most important health investment you can make
• How Rob's low carb lifestyle influenced his response to chemotherapy and targeted cancer therapy
• What a CEA tumor marker is and what Rob's numbers looked like from diagnosis to remission
• Why hope isn't soft — and what a doctor saying "I'm going to get you feeling well again" actually does for a patient
• How Rob rebuilt muscle, appetite, and mobility from near zero, one baby step at a time

💡 Key Insight

"I was floored when I found out my diagnosis, but I was really happy that I was healthy before that happened." — Rob Harris

🌐 Connect with Rob Harris

Rob Harris appeared on Episode 6B of Less of Me Success Stories: https://youtube.com/live/lq6iY_EvnvA

Rob is featured briefly at the end of The Cholesterol Code — streaming on Amazon: https://cholesterolcodemovie.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

2:37 Getting Into Low Carb for Metabolic Health

3:08 The Cancer Diagnosis

5:13 Responding Well to Treatment

7:18 The Baseline That Kept Him Alive

9:51 You Can't Put All Your Eggs in the Keto Basket

12:56 Miracle or Hard Work?

14:18 Regaining Weight with Health Code

18:06 The Power of Hope

29:11 Cancer Thrives on Sugar

30:02 Tumor Markers and Targeted Therapy

36:09 Baby Steps and the Magic Trick

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🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on Amazon.

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