Ketobiography

📣 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]

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👥 Connect with Robyn:

https://www.robyndobbins.com

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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📣 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]

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👥 Connect with Robyn:

https://www.robyndobbins.com

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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📣 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]

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👥 Connect with Robyn:

https://www.robyndobbins.com

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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📣 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.

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https://www.robyndobbins.com

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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📣 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]

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👥 Connect with Robyn:

https://www.robyndobbins.com

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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📣 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

https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

🎧 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

https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

📣 Benjiman Boyd was a pre-diabetic high school dropout battling ADHD, depression, and medication-induced mood swings. A ketogenic diet changed the trajectory of his life — and now he's studying the neurometabolism behind mental illness.

📋 As a teenager, Benjiman Boyd was a pre-diabetic high school dropout battling ADHD, severe depression, and chaotic mood swings while on multiple medications. After his family tried a ketogenic diet out of sheer desperation, he experienced rapid weight loss, dramatic improvements in mood, memory, and focus, and a renewed belief that he could learn again. That turnaround launched him back into school, into an honors degree in Applied Psychology, and now into graduate work exploring how neurometabolism shapes personality and serious mental illness. In this episode, Ben shares the vulnerable details of medication struggles, emergency inpatient care, and identity collapse, and how ketogenic and other metabolic therapies helped him build resilience, return to academics, and begin advocating for people with conditions like borderline personality disorder through his work with Metabolic Collective.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How childhood-onset ADHD, depression, and unstable home life led Ben to drop out of high school and feel hopeless about his ability to learn
• Why conventional ADHD and antidepressant medications left him with extreme mood swings, anger outbursts, and an emergency inpatient stay instead of stability
• How a family decision to try a paleo-based ketogenic diet triggered rapid weight loss, sharper memory, better focus, and the confidence to return to school
• The journey from GED to graduating with honors in Applied Psychology and into grad school, and why Ben chose to focus on the neurometabolism of mental health and personality
• Why he now chooses metabolic therapy for treatment-resistant borderline personality disorder, and how community and metabolic rhythm (sleep, fasting, movement) sustain his own brain health on a grad-student budget

💡 Key Insight

"I don't want to say all my success, but a very significant amount of my success, I owe to the ketogenic diet and the broader metabolic therapies that helped me find my focus, my resilience, and my sense of self again." — Benjiman Boyd

🎥 The Magic Pill: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B078H4J7G1/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

🌐 Connect with Benjiman Boyd

X: https://x.com/BenjiBoyd4

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.boyd.685560

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjiman-boyd-aa389524b

Ben's THINK+SMART profile: https://www.metabolicmind.org/thinksmart/explore-strategies/benjiman-boyd/

💚 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 and Ben's background

3:41 Mental health struggles, ADHD diagnosis, and dropping out

7:40 Discovering the ketogenic diet

9:50 Weight loss, memory, focus, and returning to school

14:38 From GED to honors degree in Applied Psychology

16:50 Getting off medications and metabolic therapies

22:45 Keto on a grad student budget

30:20 Identity, food culture, and the grievance process

36:09 Titrating off medications and building metabolic rhythm

42:05 Grad school thesis on keto and borderline personality disorder

51:43 What drew Ben to BPD as a research focus

56:16 Ben's role with Metabolic Collective

1:05:35 Building community and breaking down barriers

🎧 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

https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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📣 When Eddie Rodriguez's father was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at 53, doctors told the family to get their affairs in order. Eddie had a different idea.

📋 What followed was a full-scale experiment in metabolic therapies and the Bredesen Protocol — one that produced cognitive improvements his father's doctors called impossible, and that ultimately reshaped how Eddie thinks about his own health, his family's future, and what it means to carry a so-called "deterministic" Alzheimer's gene.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Eddie's family used metabolic therapies and the Bredesen Protocol to improve his father's cognition after a bleak early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis
• What a cognoscopy is, why standard neurology often misses root causes, and how the 36-holes-in-the-roof model reframes dementia treatment
• Why genes like ApoE4 and Presenilin-1 may load the gun but lifestyle and environment pull the trigger — and how that shapes Eddie's daily choices
• How fasting, ketones, exercise, sleep, stress management, and toxin reduction can work together to support brain health
• How lived experience and communities like BrainHeal(th) and Metabolic Collective are accelerating awareness of metabolic approaches to cognitive decline

💡 Key Insight

"Genes load the gun — what we do, what we eat, what we breathe, how we think, and the environment we put ourselves in pulls the trigger." — Eddie Rodriguez

🌐 Connect with Eddie Rodriguez

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576560577792

X: https://x.com/BrainHealth919

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

🎥 The Cholesterol Code — watch it on Amazon: https://cholesterolcodemovie.com

💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org

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

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

00:00 – A family blindsided by early-onset Alzheimer's

03:50 – Discovering metabolic therapies and the Bredesen Protocol

08:08 – Cognitive testing, "impossible" improvements, and the post-viral derailment

10:59 – Detox, toxins, and rebuilding a foundation for Eddie's dad

13:39 – Three generations under one roof on the same protocol

16:48 – Living with a "deterministic" Alzheimer's gene and choosing a different path

22:50 – From crisis calls to launching the BrainHeal(th) YouTube channel

29:28 – What a cognoscopy is and why standard neurology often misses so much

34:28 – Root causes, infections, toxins, hormones, and the 36-holes-in-the-roof model

47:12 – Low carb, CrossFit, ketones, and finding metabolic flexibility

51:45 – Inside Metabolic Collective and building a grassroots movement

59:03 – Community, support, and how to get connected with Eddie and Metabolic Collective

🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.

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📣 When Dori Martin's husband was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer, they were handed a prognosis and not much else. What followed was a deep dive into therapeutic ketogenic diets that outlasted the timeline his doctors had given him.

📋 Dori is a functional nutrition practitioner — but her path there wasn't linear. Burnout, disordered eating relapse, and debilitating menopausal symptoms were her own uninvited teachers. In this conversation she walks through how therapeutic keto, mineral balancing through Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis, and some genuinely simple lifestyle shifts helped her husband beat the odds and helped her find her way back to herself — and to food as something other than a battleground.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a stage 4 gastric cancer diagnosis led to therapeutic keto and an outcome that defied the original prognosis
• Why burnout, stress, and perimenopause can make clean eating and exercise stop working — and what to look at instead
• How removing sugar, gluten, and refined carbs can shift disordered eating patterns by stabilizing blood sugar
• What Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis reveals about adrenal burnout, thyroid health, detox capacity, and energy production
• How pairing keto with mineral balancing and lifestyle habits can support cancer recovery, metabolic health, and menopausal symptoms

💡 Key Insight

"Food is truly the best medicine. And joy." — Dori Martin

🌐 Connect with Dori Martin

Website: https://www.dorimartin.com

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dori.liang

Facebook Group: Keto Kickstart Collaborative — therapeutic and customizable low carb/keto support

🎥 The Cholesterol Code — watch it 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

0:00 – From stage 4 cancer to a new mission with keto

7:32 – Discovering therapeutic keto and her husband's radical turnaround

10:07 – Disordered eating, elimination diets, and the power of removing sugar and grains

14:32 – Burnout, perimenopause, and why "doing all the things" stopped working

18:17 – Cancer, terrain theory, and changing the prognosis with nutrition and lifestyle

24:27 – Why standard cancer care rarely talks about food and metabolic health

28:17 – Is keto "too hard"? Mindset, cravings, and social pressure around food

32:17 – Menopause, hormones, and why midlife women tolerate carbs differently

36:17 – Hair Tissue & Mineral Analysis: what it reveals and why minerals matter

41:47 – Food as medicine and joy: finding purpose in helping others heal

🎧 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

https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.