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📋 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 discovering ketogenic metabolic therapy and rebuilding her life, relationships, and sense of purpose.


They explore the central tension raised by The Cholesterol Code: what it means to live as a lean‑mass hyper‑responder with very high LDL, zero coronary plaque, and profound mental health benefits from a ketogenic diet, and how to weigh that reality against standard cholesterol guidelines and the fears of clinicians, family, and society. Their discussion highlights the power of story, the limits of “treating the lab number,” and why centering lived experience is essential when research is still evolving.


The episode then moves to the Menlo Park lived‑experience panel moderated by Dr. Bret Scher, featuring Robyn Dobbins, Dr. Eric Rodgers, Michelle Hurn, and Lauren Kennedy West of Living Well After Schizophrenia. The panelists share how ketogenic and low‑carb therapies have impacted anorexia and eating‑disorder treatment, schizophrenia, major depression, athletic performance, and family life—while candidly addressing concerns about high LDL, CAC scores, medical pushback, and the practical realities of sustaining these approaches in everyday life.


💡 What you’ll Learn in this Episode


🔑 Key Insight

“There’s no reason to go back to how I was just because of this one number. My overall well‑being, the joy and energy I have now—there’s no trading that for a lab result.” -Robyn Dobbins


🌐 Connect with Robyn


🌐 Connect with Casey


🎬 Watch The Cholesterol Code on Amazon starting April 17!


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