Ketobiography

📣 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 noticed
• What "functional fitness" actually means beyond the buzzwords
• How gut issues and lactose intolerance shaped her relationship with food
• Why she built Alkalign around movement that doesn't have to hurt to work
• How 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

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

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📣 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 that
• How going zero-fiber carnivore ended years of unpredictable flare-ups
• What a CRP of 129 actually feels like and what it finally took to act
• How his free simulator shows both blood sugar and insulin response — something a CGM can't do
• Why 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

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📣 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 disease
• What an undiagnosed parasite infection can do to gut health and mental clarity over time
• Why hormone replacement without progesterone can backfire for women in perimenopause
• What changed when Lori tested a carnivore approach on herself before recommending it to clients
• How 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

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

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📣 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 again
• Why starting with one inch of movement matters more than where you think you should be
• How to navigate NSNG eating in the South, including church potlucks and Bojangles
• What it means to see food as fuel rather than comfort or craving
• How 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

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📣 Drew Kriese spent 32 years watching his wife Christy fight depression, anxiety, and a mental health crisis that brought their family to its knees. He wasn't the one going carnivore — she was. But when he finally tried it himself, everything changed.

📋 Drew is the husband of Christy Kriese, who shared her remarkable recovery story on Episode 51. In this conversation, Drew takes us to the other side of that story — what it looked like from where he was standing. He watched Christy go from sleeping around the clock and unable to eat, to 900+ days into a carnivore lifestyle that changed not just her life but his, their kids', and their grandchildren's. He also shares his own journey: the carnivore January that turned into two and a half years, unexpected improvements in a degenerative eye condition that had him getting injections in both eyes every six weeks, and what it means to maintain this lifestyle while traveling constantly for work.

Note: Drew is a field representative who received work messages during our conversation. You may notice brief visual interruptions, but he can be heard clearly throughout.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• What it's actually like to be the spouse of someone in a severe mental health crisis, and what helped
• How Drew went from zero faith in carnivore to two and a half years in
• Why he started sharing Christy's story with his own employees — and why it matters
• How a degenerative eye condition that required injections every six weeks has responded since he changed his diet
• How to stay carnivore on the road when airport food is working against you

💡 Key Insight

"When you see your best friend struggling and you can't help her as a husband — that sucks." — Drew Kriese

🌐 Connect with Drew Kriese

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drew.kriese

X: https://x.com/DrewKriese

For Christy's story, listen to Episode 51: https://youtu.be/9CwpyS_2k0w

💚 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 Friends & Family Support Group — for loved ones and caregivers of people navigating metabolic health — meets every other week and can be found at Metabolic Collective: https://www.metaboliccollective.org

⚕️ 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

3:15 Thirty-Two Years Together

4:33 When the Big One Hit

8:04 Finding Carnivore

10:54 A Lesson for the Kids

22:35 On Being a Caregiver

25:25 The Friends & Family Support Group

35:47 Carnivore January

39:06 Mental Clarity and Unexpected Changes

43:10 The Eye Condition

49:16 Staying Carnivore on the Road

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📣 Steven T. spent 30 years battling bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and food addiction before a ketogenic diet put him into remission — no medication, no episodes, five years and counting. In this episode, he shares how he got there and what he's building now.

📋 In this conversation, Steven T. and I talk about what bipolar remission actually feels like from the inside, how he went from 20 years of vegetarianism to a high-fat beef-only way of eating, and why his daughter Samantha is at the center of everything he does. We also get into the identity questions that come with going public about mental illness, the community spaces he's building for people using metabolic therapies, and what pragmatism over dogmatism actually looks like in practice.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Steven T. achieved five years of bipolar remission without medication through a ketogenic diet
• Why he coined HFBO — High Fat Beyond Optimal — and how his approach has evolved over time
• What it looks like to raise a child on keto for ADHD and OCD, and what he's observed in his daughter Samantha
• How accountability, community, and energy management are as foundational to his mental health as the food itself
• Why he lives by pragmatism over dogmatism and what that means for anyone trying to find their own keto path

💡 Key Insight

"I can't make deposits all day long and then expect to still have money when Samantha comes home from school." — Steven T.

🌐 Connect with Steven T.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MT4MH

Website: https://findyourketo.net

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

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

X: https://x.com/StevenTrunce

LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/steventrunce

Community & Support Groups:

X Community — Keto Therapy 4 Mental Health: https://x.com/i/communities/1925679302661443714

HFBO Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/dtktaWstHUTsGHQ9/

Metabolic Brotherhood Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/the-metabolic-brotherhood/

Mental Health & Ketogenic Lifestyle Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/mentalhealthandtheketogeniclifestyle

💚 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

2:17 Doing Hard Things Together

6:20 Two Very Different Podcast Hosts

16:55 Steven T.'s Story — Bipolar, Addiction & 30 Years of Struggle

28:34 What Bipolar Remission Actually Feels Like

30:08 All In on Fatherhood — Samantha & Keto for ADHD and OCD

34:16 From Vegan to HFBO — 20 Years of Vegetarianism

44:37 Coining HFBO and Finding Your Keto

49:34 Identity, Advocacy & Going Public About Mental Health

56:20 Community Groups, the Metabolic Brotherhood & the Book

1:10:19 Top 5 Metabolic Mental Health Practices

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📣 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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📣 Mimi Morgan was given less than a 50% chance of surviving the next 18 months. Today she's deadlifting 135 pounds and training for the 500-mile Camino de Santiago. This is what changed.

📋 Mimi is a wellness coach, certified personal trainer, and Metabolic Health practitioner who faced Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, a stroke, and a life-threatening MRSA spinal infection — all within a few years of each other. She went from using a walker and losing hope at a mailbox to building muscle, coming off all medication, and now coaching others with Parkinson's through metabolic and movement-based restoration. This is her full two-year update.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Mimi reduced her Parkinson's medication dependency by shifting to a high-fat, low-carb diet and eventually came off all medication after three and a half years
• Why the "mailbox moment" — not a dramatic breakthrough — was the turning point that saved her life, and what she did with just 10 steps a day
• How a MRSA spinal infection destroyed vertebrae L2, L3, and part of L4, and why she still carries the bacteria today and manages around it
• What her coaching approach looks like for people with Parkinson's — including PWR moves, macro tracking, protein timing, and the mental shift she considers non-negotiable
• Why muscle mass may be one of the most important investments you can make before illness strikes, and what she tells clients who want a quick fix

💡 Key Insight

"The act of taking 10 more steps was — I'm worth 10 more steps. That was all I could do, that was all I had in me, but I was worth those 10 steps." — Mimi Morgan

🌐 Connect with Mimi Morgan

Website: https://www.just10moresteps.com

X: https://x.com/mimikmorgan

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559122019739

⚕️ 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

2:39 Five-Year Cliff Notes — Dupuytren's, RA, and Parkinson's

5:47 The Stroke, the Tainted IV, and MRSA

9:12 Given Less Than 50% Chance of Surviving

12:04 The Mailbox Moment

14:49 Worth 10 More Steps

15:54 Discovering Low Carb and Running on Ketones

30:06 Two-Year Update — Training, Coaching, and What's Changed

31:57 The Mental Shift That Made Everything Else Possible

41:38 PWR Moves, Muscle, and Who Mimi Coaches

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📣 Joomee Kyler spent a lifetime cycling through illness after illness — chronic infections, depression, gestational diabetes, thyroid cancer — until a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis on December 8, 2022 became the day that changed everything. Within three months, her labs looked unrecognizable. Within a year, so did her life.

📋 In this episode, Joomee shares how she approached keto and intermittent fasting without overcomplicating it, what her therapeutic fasting protocol actually looked like, and the long list of conditions that quietly resolved along the way — sleep apnea, fatty liver, GERD, depression, anxiety, chronic hives, and more. She also talks about what it means to become your own health advocate when the system has failed you, and how she now supports others through accountability groups and her passion project, Metabolic Health Stories.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a lifetime of unresolved illness connected back to insulin resistance long before a diabetes diagnosis
• The simple, no-macro-counting keto and fasting approach Joomee used to reverse Type 2 diabetes in 3 months
• How to ease into therapeutic fasting — from 16 hours to 72 hours — without overwhelming your body
• Why the conditions that resolved alongside diabetes were just as significant as the lab numbers
• How Joomee now mentors others and why becoming your own advocate is the throughline of her story

💡 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 Kyler

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lowcarbology101

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metabolic.health.stories

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.

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

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📣 Harmony Bright was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 30, spent 13 years on heavy psychiatric medications, and then accidentally changed everything with food. This is the most-watched episode on the Ketobiography YouTube channel — and it earned that by fitting exactly what this podcast is here to share.

📋 Harmony's story covers schizophrenia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation, spinal injury, and a medication journey that left her barely able to participate in life. What pulled her out wasn't a prescription. It was a ketogenic diet she stumbled into while trying to reduce inflammation — and the realization, years later, that it had been quietly giving her her life back.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a therapeutic ketogenic diet can produce measurable improvements in schizophrenia symptoms
• What medication-induced metabolic damage looks like and how diet can work around it
• Why tapering psychiatric medication can look like relapse — and how to tell the difference
• How glucose and ketone levels interact during withdrawal and why that matters
• Why individualized troubleshooting, a CGM, and a support system are essential during a keto-based taper

💡 Key Insight

"What people see me do when I start feeling those symptoms come on — they'll see me reaching for a meat stick or a fat bomb to lower my glucose. That's the difference of being psychotic and not being in control, and taking control of your illness. That's how you control it with food." — Harmony Bright

🌐 Connect with Harmony Bright

X: https://x.com/bright_har6612

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmonybright1000

⚕️ 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.

🎧 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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