Keto for PTSD and Metabolic Psychiatry | Rebecca Austin - Ketobiography | Lyssna här

📣 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

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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

3:50 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