{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65b82968900efd00165f19d3/6a00e007dcea0196add17d11?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Carnivore for Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety & the Whole Family","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65b82968900efd00165f19d3/1778444085887-163fa49e-3388-4f81-8c29-8ccad4dd3ae8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>📣 Christy Kriese is back — and two years of strict carnivore have changed not just her life, but nearly everyone around her.</p><p><br></p><p>📋 Christy spent years cycling through psychiatric medications, a devastating deprescribing experience, and a depression so severe 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 feels better every single day. In this conversation, she and Robyn talk about what changed, who else in her family came along for the ride, and why lived experience is as important as any clinical study.</p><p><br></p><p>⏳ Chapters</p><p>0:00 Introduction</p><p>1:25 Christy's Background and Mental Health History</p><p>3:47 Cyclical Depression and the COVID Turning Point</p><p>7:09 Deprescribing Gone Wrong</p><p>9:20 The $2,600 Psychiatrist and Four Medications in Four Weeks</p><p>13:56 What Nobody Talks About: Deprescribing Risks</p><p>16:22 From Bedbound to Carnivore: The First Days</p><p>22:48 Day Eight Sleep, 890 Days of Feeling Better</p><p>24:07 How the Whole Family Joined In</p><p>43:20 One-on-Ones, Metabolic Collective, and Helping Others</p><p><br></p><p>🔑 What you'll learn:</p><ul><li>Why a too-fast medication taper can mimic — or trigger — a psychiatric crisis, and why that's rarely recognized in treatment</li><li>How Christy's sleep improved by day eight on carnivore, before almost anything else changed</li><li>What happened when her husband, son, son-in-law, daughter, grandkids, and brother-in-law each started carnivore on their own timeline</li><li>Why Christy tracks how she feels rather than macros, ketones, or the scale — and why that approach works for her mental health history</li><li>How she went from a burner Twitter account called Little Miss Depressive Episode to doing one-on-one crisis support for people across the country</li><li><br></li></ul><p>💡 \"Waking up at nighttime wondering if you killed somebody or if you've tried to kill yourself because you can't separate reality from your dreams — that's hard. This is not hard.\" -Christy Kriese</p><p><br></p><p>🌐 Find Christy:</p><p><a href=\"https://x.com/melovinjesus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/christy.kriese\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/melovinjesus22/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Robyn R Dobbins"}