Ketobiography

📣 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

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⚕️ 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.

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https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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📣 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 disorder
• How raising his kids sugar-free from birth shaped his view on food and the brain
• The nonprofit fundraising model behind the Quit Sugar Summit
• What's coming in the upcoming Metabolic Psychiatry Summit
• Why 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.

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

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📣 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 crisis
• Why a PTSD diagnosis didn't fully capture what she was experiencing
• How a licensed mental health counselor and a ketogenic diet changed her brain function within five days
• Why Rebecca is going back to school to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
• What 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.

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https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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📣 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 yet
• Why bone broth was her first step back to eating
• The physical changes she didn't expect from carnivore, from motion sickness to joint pain
• What 22 years of medication tapering actually looked like
• Why 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

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

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📣 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 weeks
• Why cyclical depression is different from a bipolar diagnosis, and how that distinction got missed
• The first physical signs of healing Christy noticed after starting carnivore, and how quickly they showed up
• How her husband's degenerative eye disease has improved over two years on carnivore
• Why 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

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

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📣 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 statins
• What years of undiagnosed depression, then diagnosed bipolar disorder and OCD, actually looked like day to day
• How a psychiatric medication merry-go-round left her without a sense of wellness for over a decade
• How hearing Dr. Georgia Ede on a podcast helped her connect her mental health to her diet
• Why 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.

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

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📣 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 practice
• Why continuous glucose monitors can reveal hidden blood sugar spikes from "healthy" processed foods
• The overlooked role of menopause and hormone therapy in anxiety, joint pain, and other misdiagnosed symptoms
• What genitourinary syndrome of menopause is and why so few women get treated for it
• The 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.

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https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins

https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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📣 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 them
• How morning sunlight and blue light control support sleep and circadian rhythm across time zones
• How to eat well on the road: booking a kitchen, stocking staples, packing shelf-stable food
• What's in her travel sensory kit, and why each piece matters
• The 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.

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https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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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 everything
• Why he pioneered ketogenic bodybuilding with no coaches or precedent to follow
• How OCD shaped his training and macro tracking, and how he learned to redirect it
• What led him to create Keto Brick and build a business around solving his own problem
• How 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

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https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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📣 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 adulthood
• How she found ketosis completely by accident after a routine doctor visit at 39, and why NSNG became her lifelong foundation
• Why she still struggles with Hashimoto's despite years of a clean, low-carb diet — and what that reveals about "cured" claims online
• The physical and emotional setbacks of the last three years, from unexplained joint pain to losing her mother and nearly losing her father
• Why 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"

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