📣 A terrifying ER visit, the smell of acetone on her 9-year-old's breath, and an A1C of 11% launched one family into the world of type 1 diabetes overnight. When doctors insisted "he needs carbs to grow" and later pushed hard for statins after his total cholesterol hit 832, this mama bear turned to keto, Dr. Bernstein's low-carb approach, and the TypeOneGrit and LMHR communities to keep her son's blood sugar in the non-diabetic range while his cholesterol steadily fell — without medication.

📋 In this episode, you'll hear how Alison Coughlin navigated fear, pressure, and conflicting expert opinions to advocate for her child's health, and what their life looks like now as he thrives in sports, school, and everyday childhood on a low-carb way of eating.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a parent recognized early signs of type 1 diabetes at home and pushed for urgent care
• What it looks like to transition a child and family to Dr. Bernstein's low-carb approach after diagnosis
• How A1C can move from 11% to a non-diabetic range on keto — and why some clinicians still resist
• What LMHR is, why Johnny's total cholesterol soared to 832, and how it later dropped to 341 without statins
• Practical insights on advocating for your child when doctors warn you're "doing it wrong" but your child is thriving

💡 Key Insight

"The most important thing is keeping his A1C in check and keeping his blood sugars in a non-diabetic range — and that is what we believe is truly the best thing for him." — Alison Coughlin

🌐 Connect with Alison Coughlin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnys_lowcarblife

TypeOneGrit Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/typeonegrit

LMHR Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeanMassHyperResponder

📖 Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: https://a.co/d/08ymhi7d (not an affiliate link)

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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, Cholesterol Code series, and Alison's first podcast appearance

2:12 Johnny's diagnosis story: acetone breath, ER visit, and A1C of 11%

8:35 Hospital food, carb counting, and early fears about life with type 1 diabetes

12:40 Finding TypeOneGrit, discovering Dr. Bernstein, and going low-carb as a family

14:34 Non-diabetic A1C, pushback from the endo, and "he needs carbs to grow"

16:22 The shocking lipid panel: total cholesterol 832, LDL 741, and FH testing

21:32 LMHR, cardiology workup, CAC scan, and relentless pressure to start statins

25:24 Cholesterol trending down to 341 without meds and choosing not to debate doctors anymore

33:15 Who Johnny is today: thriving teen, baseball, beach days, and no limitations on keto

55:27 Filming Cholesterol Code and the emotional experience of meeting Dr. Bernstein

🎧 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]

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 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 What if the diet advice you trusted your whole life was actually feeding your cravings — and your lab "red flags" didn't tell the whole story? Clinical psychologist and author Dr. Jen Unwin joins Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins to explore the intersection of food addiction, low-carb nutrition, and cholesterol.

📋 Drawing on her professional experience with the NHS and her own lived experience as a lifelong sugar addict, Jen explains how she finally found food freedom with low carb and why, for many people, understanding addiction is the missing piece that makes change stick. She also shares the story behind her sky-high LDL, zero CAC scores, and appearance in The Cholesterol Code documentary — inviting listeners to rethink what "risk" really looks like in the context of metabolic health.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a clinical psychologist came to see her own pattern as true food addiction, not a lack of willpower
• Why low-carb or keto can transform cravings and energy — and why that alone may not solve addiction for some people
• The CRAVED framework for recognizing food addiction in yourself or your patients and clients
• How Jen and Dr. David Unwin helped type 2 diabetes patients reach drug-free remission with dietary change and data tracking
• What Jen's extreme LDL, zero CAC scores, and Cholesterol Code involvement suggest about lean-mass hyper-responders and risk assessment

💡 Key Insight

"It's not your fault, but it is your responsibility — to build the routines, boundaries, and ways of living that keep food addiction from finding its way back in." — Dr. Jen Unwin

🌐 Connect with Dr. Jen Unwin

X: https://x.com/drjenunwin

The Collaborative Health Community: https://www.the-CHC.org

Fork in the Road — A Hopeful Guide to Food Freedom: https://a.co/d/0fwnvlHr

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Welcome to Ketobiography & the Cholesterol Code mini-series

2:18 Jen's lifelong sugar addiction and early weight struggles

3:49 Discovering low carb and the "miracle" of fewer cravings and more energy

5:15 Creating a type 2 diabetes remission program with David's patients

6:39 Why food addiction is a "leaky boat" in a world where you have to keep eating

9:04 Realizing "this is addiction" and starting to campaign for recognition

31:48 The LDL of 19 mmol/L shock, CAC scans, and lean-mass hyper-responders

36:11 Letting go of everything you were taught about "healthy eating" to feel well

45:48 Healing the brain with enough protein and fat — not just restriction or willpower

47:52 Practical advice: meds, keto flu, salt, and why you should expect a rough first 8 days

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 What does it look like to love someone through years of undiagnosed bipolar disorder — ER visits, missed red flags, financial strain, and a mental health system that keeps failing both of you? Robyn sits down with her husband, Matt Dobbins, to hear his side of the story behind The Cholesterol Code documentary.

📋 Together, they revisit the unseen weight of caregiving at home, what it meant to be "the pointless extra" on screen, and how changing food eventually changed everything for their family.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a partner experiences bipolar disorder from the outside looking in
• Why ER and psychiatric care so often fail people in mental health crisis
• The hidden cost of "fixer" behavior and financial overcompensation in marriage
• What helped a caregiver stay when it felt easier to walk away
• How finding NSNG and metabolic health support shifted their family's story

💡 Key Insight

"You cannot walk away. These people are in crisis; they need somebody who genuinely cares about them, and you can't just turn your back on that." — Matt Dobbins

🌐 Connect with Matt Dobbins

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.dobbins.31

X: https://x.com/MattDobbins5

💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metcollective

X: https://x.com/metcollective

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Pointless Extra: Matt's side of the story

4:53 ER night and a broken mental health system

9:04 Feeling lost in crisis care

13:47 Early red flags and "Breadzilla"

20:17 Counseling, conflict, and feeling alone

26:47 Broad shoulders and not walking away

33:47 Fixer mode, debt, and enabling

42:17 NSNG, life in color, and the job loss tailspin

51:57 Moving to Texas, role reversal, and coming off meds

57:47 Why Cholesterol Code matters and hope for caregivers

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 What happens when a prevention-focused cardiologist finds himself at the center of both a new field — metabolic psychiatry — and a documentary that's challenging everything we think we know about cholesterol? Dr. Bret Scher joins Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins to talk about his journey from conventional cardiology into metabolic health advocacy and his role in The Cholesterol Code.

📋 They explore how ketogenic therapies are reshaping care for serious mental illness, why LDL can't be understood in isolation from metabolic health, and what Bret hopes viewers will take away from the documentary.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• Why Bret felt "woefully trained" in prevention coming out of cardiology — and how that opened the door to metabolic health and keto
• How low-carb and ketogenic diets moved from "dangerous" in his mind to essential tools in both heart and brain health
• The story of Metabolic Mind, the Baszucki family, and how one son's bipolar recovery sparked a global push to transform psychiatry
• Why metabolic psychiatry is suddenly growing fast, with new clinicians and trials emerging beyond Metabolic Mind's direct involvement
• How Bret's work and perspective feed into The Cholesterol Code documentary — and why metabolic context matters when we talk about LDL and risk

💡 Key Insight

"Modern medicine is incredible at saving lives in a crisis — but when you see someone get their life back with a metabolic intervention, you realize we've been missing something huge in both cardiology and psychiatry." — Dr. Bret Scher

🌐 Connect with Dr. Bret Scher

Metabolic Mind: https://www.metabolicmind.org

Coalition for Metabolic Health: https://coalitionformetabolichealth.org

X: https://x.com/bschermd

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bret-scher-08baaa102

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metabolicmind

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Welcome and series setup

3:47 Handling nerves and being "looked up to"

6:47 From cardiology to metabolic medicine

9:47 Jan, Matt, and the heart behind Metabolic Mind

12:47 Exponential growth of metabolic psychiatry

16:47 What traditional psychiatry misses and where keto fits

20:47 Patient agency, bringing keto to your doctor, and safety

24:47 How a health coach changed Bret's view of keto

28:47 Cholesterol, risk, and lessons from recent data controversies

32:47 Bret's role in The Cholesterol Code and reflections on the film

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 Award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Isenhart joins Ketobiography to share how a lifelong struggle with sugar pulled her out of mainstream TV news and into the world of low-carb storytelling. She and Robyn trace the personal sugar detox that shattered everything Jen thought she knew about "heart-healthy" eating and led to her first metabolic documentary, Fat Fiction.

📋 Jen then takes us behind the scenes of The Cholesterol Code — from inheriting 10 terabytes of Dave Feldman's footage to weaving human stories of bipolar, schizoaffective disorder, and type 1 diabetes into complex lipid science. Along the way, they talk about being labeled a "non-compliant" patient, the pressure to take statins, the power of coronary calcium scans, and why community and story may be as therapeutic as any prescription.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Jen's background in TV news and "low-fat era" health reporting collided with her own sugar addiction and hypoglycemic crashes
• The inside story of Fat Fiction, including what shocked her most about type 2 diabetes guidelines and the quiet addition of low-carb to official recommendations
• What lean mass hyper-responders are, why some people see LDL of 300–500 on keto, and how coronary calcium scans can change the risk conversation
• How ketogenic metabolic therapy is helping real people reverse or dramatically improve bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Concrete ideas for getting started or going deeper with low-carb: structured programs, group support, and how to navigate doctors who don't yet "get" your way of eating

💡 Key Insight

"It's been drilled into us that these are chronic, progressive diseases we just manage until we get worse — but people need to know they have so much more agency than that." — Jennifer Isenhart

🌐 Connect with Jennifer Isenhart

Website: https://www.wideeye.tv

Fat Fiction: https://fatfiction.movie

The Cholesterol Code: https://cholesterolcodemovie.com

X: https://x.com/wideeyetv

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wideeyetv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wideeyeproductions

⚕️ 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 to Ketobiography & Jen's filmmaking journey into metabolic health

2:55 From TV news to sugar addiction and the Boise sugar detox class that changed everything

6:47 Making and self-funding Fat Fiction, plus what shocked Jen about diabetes guidelines

13:02 Pandemic timing, meeting Dave Feldman, and the origins of The Cholesterol Code film

17:51 Shaping the new documentary: centering real people and translating complex lipid science

23:49 Robyn's "non-compliant patient" story and the struggle to find supportive medical care

28:12 Type 1 diabetes, mental health recoveries, and navigating very high LDL on keto

31:49 Coronary calcium scans, Dr. Agatston's work, and rethinking LDL as a lone risk marker

38:58 Metabolic health, "hybrid car" metabolism, and why chronic disease may be reversible

45:26 Where to start: structured programs, community support, and practical steps to change how you eat

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 What happens when a 34-year-old husband and father is told he has less than a year to live — and simply refuses to believe that's the end of his story? Klay Swatloski joins Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins to share how a shocking Stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis became the catalyst for building a "fantasy team" of top oncology care, functional healing, and radical lifestyle change.

📋 From clean living and ketogenic nutrition to mindset, faith, and community, Klay unpacks the many levers he pulled to support his body, spirit, and brain through surgery, radiation, chemo, and beyond. Two years and many clear scans later, he reflects on what it means to actively participate in your own care — and why he believes his terrain-focused approach has been a major part of defying the textbook prognosis.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How early signs like brain fog, burnout, and subtle coordination changes led to a Stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis.
• Why Klay refused to accept his grim prognosis and instead assembled a "fantasy team" of conventional and functional practitioners.
• How the ketogenic diet, low-tox living, and terrain-focused strategies supported him through surgery, radiation, and chemo.
• The practical realities of staying keto during treatment, travel, family life, and long-term follow-up care.
• The role of mindset, journaling, faith, community, and daily habits in sustaining hope and resilience over the long haul.

💡 Key Insight "I never really believed this diagnosis could write the ending of my story — I was going to do everything I could so my body had no choice but to fight for me." — Klay Swatloski

🌐 Resources

Dr. Nasha Winters: https://drnasha.com 

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: https://a.co/d/04ZprgAF (not an affiliate link)

Dori Martin: https://www.dorimartin.com

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Welcome to Ketobiography and why this story matters now

2:27 Meeting Klay, Dori's introduction, and his hope to give others courage and options

4:17 Charity event "high," burnout, brain fog, and the first subtle warning signs 9

:02 Left-side weakness, ER visit, emergency brain surgery, and a Stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis

14:47 Refusing a textbook prognosis and building his "fantasy team" of modern and functional care

20:27 Moving the family to Duke for six weeks of radiation and oral chemo, and their already "clean" lifestyle

25:57 Discovering terrain, The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, and why he committed fully to keto

32:17 First post-treatment scans, no progression of disease, a year of maintenance chemo, and staying keto through it

40:57 Stress, burnout, journaling, faith, community, detox, and redefining how he lives day-to-day

53:17 Advocating with his doctors, long-term clear scans, and the levers he plans to keep pulling into the future

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 Keto and carnivore were supposed to make life simpler, not terrifying. U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified Nutrition Specialist Amy Berger joins Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins to unpack how extreme influencers have turned low-carb nutrition into a source of anxiety — and how to walk it back to something sane, flexible, and sustainable.

📋 They also dive deep into thyroid health, why "normal labs" don't always mean you're okay, and how to work with your medical team when keto alone isn't fixing your fatigue, weight struggles, or brain fog.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• Why keto and carnivore spaces have drifted into fear-based, all-or-nothing messaging — and how that harms real people
• How to recognize when your "healthy" diet has crossed the line into obsession, anxiety, and social isolation
• Why context matters more than blanket food rules, and how to expand your food choices without "breaking" your low-carb lifestyle
• Key basics of thyroid physiology, why TSH alone can miss problems, and why some people still feel awful on standard thyroid meds
• Practical steps to advocate for better thyroid evaluation and to pair keto with appropriate medical treatment instead of using diet as a cure-all

💡 Key Insight

"The goal of keto, low-carb, carnivore — whatever you're doing — is to feel better and have a better life. If it's making you miserable or terrified to eat, something has gone off the rails." — Amy Berger

🌐 Connect with Amy Berger

Substack: https://tuitnutrition.substack.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@amyberger-ketowithoutthecrazy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tuitnutrition/membership

Website: https://www.ketowithoutthecrazy.com

Keto & Carnivore Have a Toxic Influencer Problem: https://tuitnutrition.substack.com/p/keto-and-carnivore-have-a-toxic-influencer

Thyroid talk at Low Carb Denver: https://youtu.be/ZE6-FHf-0oY

Amy's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Amy-Berger/author/B01CPLWHTI

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Welcome to Ketobiography & guest intro

1:50 How keto and carnivore went off the rails online

3:57 Deprogramming food terror in clients

6:33 Influencers adding back carbs and plants without a mea culpa

8:33 When restriction becomes obsession and life gets smaller

34:15 Keto without the crazy and getting back to basics

36:07 Finding your individual sweet spot and blocking out the noise

37:53 Robyn's Hashimoto's story and family thyroid history

40:00 When diet isn't enough: why some people truly need thyroid medication

41:06 Iodine, gluten-free hopes, and why many are still undiagnosed or undertreated

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 At her highest weight of 574 pounds, Lisa Blackstone was mostly homebound, relying on others for basic daily tasks and feeling trapped not only in her body but under a stack of psychiatric labels and medications. She started a very low-carb diet simply to lose weight and stand on her own two feet again — and what happened next, she never saw coming.

📋 What she didn't expect was how therapeutic ketogenic eating would transform her mental health, stabilize her mood, and call long-standing diagnoses into question as her brain and body began to heal. Lisa shares how Metabolic Mind, a pilot study at the Children's Mental Health Resource Center, and Dr. Georgia Ede's work helped her connect food, metabolism, and mind in a way she'd never been offered in traditional care.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Lisa went from being mostly recliner-bound at 574 pounds to rebuilding mobility and independence with a very low-carb and then therapeutic ketogenic way of eating.
• The unexpected psychiatric changes that forced her doctor to rapidly taper medications as her mood, agitation, and overall functioning improved.
• Why she now questions a past borderline personality disorder diagnosis after understanding akathisia and stabilizing her metabolism.
• How Metabolic Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede's Change Your Diet Change Your Mind, and CMHRC's ketogenic therapy work shaped her understanding of food and mental health.
• Practical ways Lisa has brought ketogenic eating into her family's life, including benefits she's seen in her children's weight, focus, and emotional regulation.

💡 Key Insight "When I changed what I ate, people thought I'd just change my weight. Instead, my brain changed so much my diagnoses stopped making sense." — Lisa Blackstone

🌐 Connect with Lisa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoriesAndSnapshots

💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metcollective 

X: https://x.com/metcollective 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective

📚 Resources

Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research: https://akathisiaalliance.org 

Children's Mental Health Resource Center: https://cmhrc.org

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 and Lisa's story setup

2:39 Life at 574 pounds and starting very low carb

3:51 Discovering CMHRC, Metabolic Mind, and early medication tapering

5:08 Dr. Georgia Ede's book, transitioning to therapeutic keto, and rapid health changes

6:48 Coming off antidepressants, antipsychotics, sleep and pain meds, and benzo — mental health relief

9:55 Learning about akathisia and reinterpreting 20 years of diagnoses and hospitalizations

33:54 From "eat less, move more" to understanding meds, weight gain, and why keto finally worked

38:24 Bringing keto into the family: kids, autism, mood, and changing the home environment

44:04 Volunteering with CMHRC, bipolar-focused book club, and ketogenic studies for kids and teens

51:49 Looking ahead: sharing ketogenic therapy, metabolic psychiatry, and celebrating non-scale victories

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 Two dear friends join Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins 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. Craig and Michaela Young's story is equal parts scary and hopeful.

📋 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

• 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 and 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 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/craig.young.52493 

Craig on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldnum7 

Michaela on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaela.z.young

Michaela on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micastang

🎥 The Cholesterol Code: 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 Welcome to Ketobiography & how Craig became "the lurker" on VIP calls

1:12 Always "fairly healthy," considering weight-loss meds, and giving food one more real shot

5:40 High blood pressure, hating meds, and easing into a ketogenic lifestyle

7:27 Losing nearly 60 pounds but still fighting scary blood pressure numbers

8:13 Pushing for a CAC scan

9:06 Stress test, more bad news, and next-step cardiology decisions

29:18 Facing open-heart surgery, double bypass details, and waking up on the other side

31:49 Five weeks post-op: driving early, cardiac rehab, and shockingly fast healing

35:14 Why they credit real food for recovery and how this changed their commitment going forward

37:02 "The way you eat now bought you time": ish foods, worth-it treats, and what they want others to know

🎧 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 — it helps more people find the show.

👥 Connect with Robyn:

 https://www.robyndobbins.com 

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

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

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📣 What happens when someone who has "always been sick" finally understands insulin resistance and decides to change everything? Joomee Kyler's Type 2 diabetes diagnosis became the turning point that led her to a simple keto and fasting approach — and within months, her labs, her symptoms, and her life looked completely different.

📋 Joomee shares a lifetime of mystery illnesses that connected back to insulin resistance long before her diabetes diagnosis — chronic infections, gestational diabetes, adenomyosis, thyroid cancer, and a prolonged post-viral illness. She walks through the simple low-carb and fasting approach she used to reverse Type 2 diabetes in three months without tracking macros, and the surprising wins that followed: sleep apnea resolved, fatty liver gone, GERD medications stopped, depression and anxiety lifted. Robyn and Joomee also discuss therapeutic fasting, how to ease into longer fasts, the emotional side of big changes, and why Joomee now quietly helps others become their own best advocates.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a lifetime of mystery illnesses connected back to insulin resistance long before a diabetes diagnosis
• The simple low-carb and fasting approach Joomee used — without tracking macros — to reverse Type 2 diabetes in three months
• The 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: https://instagram.com/lowcarbology101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jsk722

⚕️ 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 Meet Joomee

3:47 Childhood Illness and Early Depression

6:47 Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes

9:07 Post-Viral Illness and Type 2 Diabetes

16:17 Diaversary and Finding Keto

18:17 Simple Keto and Flexible Fasting

19:32 Three-Month Turnaround

31:47 Therapeutic Fasting and Maintenance

43:47 Helping Others Without Perfectionism

52:47 Studying, Volunteering, and Curious Doctors

1:01:47 Metabolic Health Stories and Final Message

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