📣 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
💡 Key Insight
\"The electricity is back on in my brain.\" — Rebecca Austin
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⏳ 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
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