📣 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

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💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org 

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📚 Resources

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

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

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⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Introduction 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

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