Ketobiography

📣 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...

📣 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...

📣 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 yea...

📣 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 briefl...

📣 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...

📣 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 fa...

📣 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, spi...

📣 Christy Kriese is back — and two years of strict carnivore have changed not just her life, but nearly everyone around her. 📋 Christy spent years cycling through psychiatric medications, a devastating deprescribing experience, and a depression so severe that she was surviving on fewer than 8,000 calories a month. Then, on November 13, 2023, she started carnivore. Now, 890 days in, she still fee...

📣 What are exogenous ketones, and who actually needs them? Frank Llosa, founder and CEO of KetoneAid and Hard Ketones, cuts through the marketing noise to explain what works, what doesn't, and why. 📋 From brain fog and traumatic brain injury to sleep, alcohol alternatives, and mental health, this conversation goes deep on how ketones can fill the brain energy gap — and when the ketogenic diet al...

📣 Pam Groth spent 16 years on prednisone for multiple sclerosis before it pushed her into type 2 diabetes. Then she found keto — and everything started to shift. 📋 Pam grew up signing as a child of deaf adults, then lost her own hearing to MS. Managing two chronic conditions while navigating a medical system that doesn't always make space for deaf patients, she turned to keto through a deaf diab...

📣 Menopause doesn't just change your hormones — it changes your gut, your brain, your bones, and your metabolic health. Nurse practitioner and midlife women's health expert Cynthia Thurlow explains why the microbiome is the missing link in most menopause conversations. 📋 Cynthia unpacks the powerful connection between the gut microbiome, hormones, blood sugar, sleep, stress, and muscle mass in p...

📣 Years of work, cross-country screenings, and a groundbreaking cholesterol documentary all come together in this powerful in-person conversation between Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins and engineer-researcher Dave Feldman. They unpack the emotion and logistics behind The Cholesterol Code film tour, the surprising way keto helped Robyn's bipolar journey, and why real-world stories must sit along...

📣 In this special Ketobiography episode, host Robyn Dobbins shares her recent interview with Casey Ruff from Boundless Body Radio, along with the lived-experience panel from the Menlo Park, California screening of The Cholesterol Code. Robyn and Casey revisit her journey from years of severe mental and physical illness — including OCD, obesity, depression, Hashimoto's, and bipolar disorder — to d...

📣 In this special replay from Less of Me Success Stories, Ketobiography host Robyn Dobbins shares a powerful conversation with a fellow Cholesterol Code participant whose story of treatment-resistant depression, medication side effects, and weight gain led him to discover metabolic therapies and low-carb nutrition. Recorded on March 1st, 2025, this episode captures what it looks like to be both a...

📣 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...

📣 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...

📣 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 b...

📣 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 ex...

📣 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...

📣 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...

📣 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...

📣 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...

📣 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 whi...

📣 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 bac...

📣 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. Af...