📣 Country artist and songwriter Ash Taylor shares how she went from living in her car in Nashville to quitting alcohol and losing 100 pounds on a meat-heavy keto way of eating. She talks about touring sober, disordered eating, and what changed after she and her husband started keto together.

📋 Ash Taylor grew up in Bakersfield, became homeless at 18, raised her two younger brothers, and sold everything she owned to move to Nashville with no job and no place to live. In this conversation, she walks through the years of fast food, touring stress, and daily drinking that came before keto, and what she noticed once she stopped. Ash is married to Chris DeLisle of Chris Cooking Nashville, a recent Ketobiography guest, so she also tells her side of how they met and how they started this together. She hosts the ASH-PHALT podcast about life on the road, and she is clear that she and Chris are musicians, not medical professionals.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Ash went from homelessness at 18 to moving to Nashville with nothing and building a songwriting career

• How alcohol, fast food, and touring stress led her to gain over 100 pounds in about three years

• What changed for her anxiety, brain fog, energy, and cycle after she started keto and quit drinking

• What a meat-heavy keto day looks like and how she handles green rooms, steakhouses, and venue food on tour

• Why she and Chris avoid diet labels and focus on encouraging people where they are

💡 Key Insight

"I think what you eat is so important, but it is not your identity." — Ash Taylor

🌐 Connect with Ash Taylor

Website: https://www.ashtaylor.com

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

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

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

X: https://x.com/ashtaylormusic

ASH-PHALT podcast: https://linktr.ee/Ashphaltpodcast

⚕️ 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

2:02 Childhood, Homelessness, and Faith

4:06 Selling Everything to Move to Nashville

8:50 Disordered Eating and the Standard American Diet

11:53 Touring, Alcohol, and Gaining 100 Pounds

16:07 Meeting Chris Before Keto

22:47 Starting Keto, Quitting Alcohol, and Losing 100 Pounds

28:58 Chris Cooking Nashville and the Cookbook

35:13 What Meat-Heavy Keto Looks Like

37:31 Keto on Tour and Life on the Road

41:18 Food Pantries and Feeding People Well

45:24 Dropping Diet Labels and Building Community

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📣 Natasha Smikles is a registered psychiatric nurse with about 20 years in mental health care who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. She shares how she went from ADHD medication to a ketogenic diet, and what changed for her.

📋 Natasha spent most of her career in Manitoba, working in acute psychiatry and crisis services and building a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program in Winnipeg. In this conversation with Robyn, she walks through the day a dog bath led her to ask whether she had ADHD, what the medication did for her and cost her, and what happened when she tried a ketogenic diet again. She also talks about how that experience changed her work, and about the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit she is co-hosting.

🔑 What You'll Learn

- How an adult ADHD diagnosis can follow years of building systems and rituals to cope

- Why Natasha stopped ADHD medication, including the day food tasted like cardboard

- What changed on a ketogenic diet: steadier mood, clearer memory, and no panic attacks

- Why a DBT therapist began to wonder whether biology should come first

- What the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit offers, and why lived experience is a big part of it

💡 Key Insight

"I couldn't regulate my nervous system to be able to do it. It was like a biological thing that had to be fixed." — Natasha Smikles

🌐 Connect with Natasha

https://www.natashasmikles.com

https://www.instagram.com/natasha.smikles/

https://x.com/NatashaSmikles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-smikles-93753523a/

💚 Metabolic Psychiatry Summit

October 21-25, 2026

https://summit.robyndobbins.com

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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

3:08 Psychiatric Nursing, DBT, and Metabolic Psychiatry

4:24 Diagnosed with ADHD as an Adult

8:00 The Dog Bath Day That Raised the ADHD Question

15:47 ADHD Medication, Anxiety, and Side Effects

21:55 First Try at a Ketogenic Diet in 2016

25:36 Chris Palmer, Brain Energy, and Starting Keto for ADHD

26:32 Calmer Mood, Clearer Memory, and No More Panic Attacks

30:09 Fixing the Biology First: A DBT Therapist's Career Shift

35:01 DBT and Ketogenic Therapy With Clients

43:08 The Metabolic Psychiatry Summit and the Ripple Effect

49:49 Painting Nails in Acute Psychiatry: Impact You Never See

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

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📣 Mike Collins has been sugar-free for over three decades, and he believes sugar meets every clinical requirement of a substance use disorder. The founder of SugarAddiction.com and the Quit Sugar Summit breaks down the science, the stigma, and what's coming next.

📋 Mike, known as the original Sugar-Free Man, walks through how growing up with a mother who equated sugar with love shaped his own journey — and how that experience, paired with his background in addiction recovery, led him to found SugarAddiction.com and eventually the Quit Sugar Summit. We talk about raising his kids sugar-free from the womb, the science connecting fructose to the brain's reward system, and the intersection of metabolic psychiatry and addiction recovery driving his upcoming Metabolic Psychiatry Summit.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• Why Mike believes sugar meets the clinical definition of a substance use disorder
• How raising his kids sugar-free from birth shaped his view on food and the brain
• The nonprofit fundraising model behind the Quit Sugar Summit
• What's coming in the upcoming Metabolic Psychiatry Summit
• Why he won't name one "right" diet after interviewing every camp from vegan to carnivore

💡 Key Insight

"Treatment is discovery, and meetings are recovery." — Mike Collins

🌐 Connect with Mike Collins

https://sugaraddiction.com

https://sugardetox.com

https://www.facebook.com/personinrecovery

https://www.instagram.com/realsugarfreeman

https://x.com/SugarDetox

🎟️ Register for the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit

https://summit.robyndobbins.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

3:22 Mike's Mother and Growing Up on Sugar

7:10 Raising Kids Sugar-Free From the Womb

9:03 Founding SugarAddiction.com

10:38 Fructose, the Brain, and the Sugar Addiction Theory

12:27 Quit Sugar Summit's Nonprofit Fundraising Model

18:51 Is Sugar a Substance Use Disorder?

21:54 Metabolic Psychiatry Meets Addiction Recovery

26:55 Why Mike Won't Name One Official Diet

38:01 12 Years of Quit Sugar Summit

41:52 Inside the Metabolic Psychiatry Summit

1:04:34 What Is Therapeutic Ketosis?

🎧 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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📣 A US Air Force veteran and registered nurse spent two years lost inside a brain and body that no longer felt like her own. Then a ketogenic diet did what years of therapy, medication, and a PTSD residential program could not.

📋 Rebecca Austin is a nurse working at a direct primary care metabolic health clinic in the Pacific Northwest — but before that, she spent two years cycling through PTSD, anxiety, and depression after what she calls the day her "trauma bucket" finally overflowed. She tried antidepressants, EMDR, psychedelics, a PTSD residential program for veterans and first responders — nothing held. Then she found metabolic psychiatry through Nicole Laurent, and within five days of starting a ketogenic diet, her brain came back online. In this conversation, Rebecca walks through the two years she calls hell, what actually changed things, and the future she's building — from becoming a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to her dream of a treatment center built on nutrition instead of trauma excavation.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a "trauma bucket" analogy helped Rebecca make sense of her own mental health crisis
• Why a PTSD diagnosis didn't fully capture what she was experiencing
• How a licensed mental health counselor and a ketogenic diet changed her brain function within five days
• Why Rebecca is going back to school to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
• What her dream mental health treatment resort would look like, and why it wouldn't focus on trauma reprocessing

💡 Key Insight

"The electricity is back on in my brain." — Rebecca Austin

🌐 Connect with Rebecca Austin

https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_austin_rn/

💚 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

3:50 Rebecca's Background and Air Force Service

10:58 Nurse Burnout and a Growing Trauma Bucket

12:45 The Day Her Brain Broke

17:52 Residential PTSD Treatment

21:40 Finding Warrior Path and Metabolic Psychiatry

23:31 Discovering Nicole Laurent

38:51 Starting the Ketogenic Diet

45:09 The Ketosis Breakthrough

1:02:56 Direct Primary Care and Metabolic Health

1:20:44 A Vision for a Mental Health Treatment Resort

1:29:09 Where to Find Rebecca

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

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👥 Connect with Robyn:

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https://robynrdobbins.substack.com/

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

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http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com

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📣 Christy Kriese didn't leave her house for two and a half months. Then real food brought her back, and she never picked up the medication her psychiatrist wanted to add next.

📋 This is Christy's first-ever podcast appearance, originally recorded on Less of Me Success Stories in August 2024. She walks through a childhood of trauma and neglect, a 22-year history with depression and anxiety medication, and a post-viral illness that triggered the worst episode of her life. Bone broth was her first bite back, and carnivore became the thing that finally held.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How a post-viral illness triggered her worst depressive episode yet
• Why bone broth was her first step back to eating
• The physical changes she didn't expect from carnivore, from motion sickness to joint pain
• What 22 years of medication tapering actually looked like
• Why she believes both medication and nutrition have a place in recovery

💡 Key Insight

"I don't crave anything. It's just literally given my life back." — Christy Kriese

🌐 Connect with Christy Kriese

https://www.facebook.com/christy.kriese

https://x.com/melovinjesus

⚕️ 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 Why I'm Replaying This Episode

0:42 Welcome and Show Introduction

2:15 Introducing Christy Kriese

3:43 Childhood Trauma and the Roots of Anxiety

7:09 First Major Panic Attack and Early Depressive Episodes

13:09 Medication, Motherhood, and Years of Stability

16:51 A Post-Viral Illness Changes Everything

21:07 A Breaking Point and the First Psychiatrist Visit

28:10 A Difficult Medication Trial and a Turning Point

33:48 Reaching Out to Robyn — Bone Broth and First Bites

37:54 Tracking the Changes — Mental and Physical Shifts

44:00 Community Q&A

1:02:50 Final Advice and Closing

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http://eathappykitchen.robyndobbins.com

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