📣 Nine years ago, the day after her 40th birthday, Robyn Dobbins changed her diet to avoid a statin. On the anniversary of that decision, she's finally speaking publicly about the hardest three years since.
📋 This episode is a replay of Robyn's conversation on Find Your Keto, hosted by Steven Trunce. It goes far beyond the story most people know — covering her childhood, her bipolar diagnosis, her ongoing fight with Hashimoto's, and the physical and emotional setbacks of the past three years, including her mother's death, her father's hospitalization, and an unexplained wave of joint pain and brain fog tied to perimenopause.
🔑 What You'll Learn
- Why Robyn's childhood memories before 7th grade are largely inaccessible, and how rigid family Christmas traditions shaped her adulthood
- How she found ketosis completely by accident after a routine doctor visit at 39, and why NSNG became her lifelong foundation
- Why she still struggles with Hashimoto's despite years of a clean, low-carb diet — and what that reveals about "cured" claims online
- The physical and emotional setbacks of the last three years, from unexplained joint pain to losing her mother and nearly losing her father
- Why she believes personal stories carry as much weight as the science in the metabolic health movement
💡 Key Insight
"It's my story, and it doesn't change." — Robyn Dobbins
🌐 Original Episode
Watch the full original appearance on Find Your Keto: https://youtu.be/XjiM3Slq7gQ
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⏳ Chapters
0:00 Intro & Reflection
0:53 Welcome to Find Your Keto
3:05 Podcast Styles & Being Silly
11:07 Lighting, EMFs & Prioritizing How She Feels
15:22 Childhood: Single-Parent Home & Learning to Cook
18:52 Earliest Memories & the Seventh Grade Shift
22:27 Family Mental Health & Christmas Rules
32:09 High School Rejection & Confidence Struggles
36:34 Feeling Like a "Toddler" & Unexpected Recognition
41:03 Discovering Ketosis by Accident
46:41 Information Overload & the Fire Diet Plan
48:41 Hashimoto's & Distrust of "Cures"
56:04 Find Your Keto: Why One Plan Doesn't Fit All
1:02:33 Diet Before Keto: Pop-Tarts, Cereal & Ice Cream
1:05:39 The Diagnosis That Started NSNG
1:07:52 The First Six Months & a Year of Carnivore
1:16:23 Sweeteners, Cravings & Knowing Your Own Rules
1:29:57 Struggles, Setbacks & Recovery
1:39:58 Perimenopause, Her Dad's Hospitalization & Brain Fog
1:49:05 Barbells, Kettlebells & Becoming "Shoulders"
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