Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
What happens when a ketogenic diet transforms your mental health, but your LDL goes up?
For millions of people, fear of high cholesterol is keeping them from trying keto. For others already on it, a single number on a lab report is threatening to undo everything they've worked for.
The Cholesterol Code is a new documentary that follows a specific group of individuals known as Lean Mass Hyper-Responders, whose bodies respond to ketogenic therapy with a dramatic rise in LDL, while nearly every other metabolic marker improves.
In this panel discussion, recorded live after a screening of The Cholesterol Code, you'll hear directly from the people at the center of this conversation.
🎙️ FEATURING:
- Robyn Dobbins: who spent years describing her world as gray, unable to escape her bipolar depression despite bouncing from doctor to doctor and medication to medication. Fortunately, ketogenic therapy helped reverse her symptoms and allowed her to come off all mental health medications in 2019. She feels great and hasn't gone back.
- Dr. Eric Rodgers: an optometrist who ran marathons for 15 years straight, found himself struggling with severe depression and even developed prediabetes despite his exercise habits. Eight years after going keto, he's in remission, medication free and hasn't looked back.
- Lauren Kennedy West: diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 25, Lauren spent years navigating antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and talk therapy that never quite got to the root cause. Lauren has documented her story online and after diving fully into ketogenic therapy and metabolic treatment, she has had a remarkable recovery and changed her YouTube handle to Living Well _After_ Schizophrenia.
- Michelle Hurn: registered dietitian and ultra runner who, after years of battling anorexia and depression, ditched the high-carb guidelines she was trained to follow, and almost immediately experienced a transformation in her mental and physical health.
- Dr. Bret Scher: A board certified cardiologist who has specialized in ketogenic therapy and is a featured medical expert in The Cholesterol Code.
This isn't a conversation about whether LDL matters. It's about whether abandoning a life-changing therapy, just because one biomarker went up is really the answer. And how asking more questions, using imaging technology, and seeing a broader definition of health can help individuals dealing with this dilemma really understand their cardiovascular risk.
Learn more by watching The Cholesterol Code, which is now available on Amazon!
Visit the link below to buy or rent the film, share it with a friend or family member, and leave an honest review to help this information reach more people!
🎞️: amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0GS8ZFCYN
*Experts Featured:*
- Dr. Bret Scher
- Baszucki Group Medical Director
- X: https://x.com/bschermd
- Instagram: instagram.com/drbretscher
- Lauren Kennedy West
- Website: livingwellafterschizophrenia.com
- Youtube: youtube.com/LivingWellwithSchizophrenia
- X: https://x.com/LWSchizophrenia
- Instagram: instagram.com/livingwellafterschizophrenia
- Robyn Dobbins
- X: https://x.com/robynrdobbins
- Website: harbingerofhealthllc.com
- Youtube: youtube.com/@ketobiography
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robyn-dobbins-59bb1653
- Facebook: facebook.com/people/Robyn-R-Dobbins/100090891465253
- instagram.com/robynrdobbins
- Eric Rodgers
- X: https://x.com/DrEricRodgers
- Michelle Hurn
- Website: thedietitiansdilemma.net
- X: https://x.com/MichelleHurnRD
- Instagram: instagram.com/michelle_a_hurn
Follow our channel for more information and education from Bret Scher, MD, FACC, including interviews with leading experts in Metabolic Psychiatry.
Learn more about metabolic psychiatry and find helpful resources at metabolicmind.org
*About us:*
Metabolic Mind is a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group working to transform the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health. We leverage the science of metabolic psychiatry and personal stories to offer education, community, and hope to people struggling with mental health challenges and those who care for them.
Our channel is for informational purposes only. We are not providing individual or group medical or healthcare advice nor establishing a provider-patient relationship. Many of the interventions we discuss can have dramatic or potentially dangerous effects if done without proper supervision. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your lifestyle or medications.
What happens when a ketogenic diet transforms your mental health, but your LDL goes up?
For millions of people, fear of high cholesterol is keeping them from trying keto. For others already on it, a single number on a lab report is threatening to undo everything they've worked for.
The Cholesterol Code is a new documentary that follows a specific group of individuals known as Lean Mass Hyper-Responders, whose bodies respond to ketogenic therapy with a dramatic rise in LDL, while nearly every other metabolic marker improves.
In this panel discussion, recorded live after a screening of The Cholesterol Code, you'll hear directly from the people at the center of this conversation.
🎙️ FEATURING:
- Robyn Dobbins: who spent years describing her world as gray, unable to escape her bipolar depression despite bouncing from doctor to doctor and medication to medication. Fortunately, ketogenic therapy helped reverse her symptoms and allowed her to come off all mental health medications in 2019. She feels great and hasn't gone back.
- Dr. Eric Rodgers: an optometrist who ran marathons for 15 years straight, found himself struggling with severe depression and even developed prediabetes despite his exercise habits. Eight years after going keto, he's in remission, medication free and hasn't looked back.
- Lauren Kennedy West: diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 25, Lauren spent years navigating antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and talk therapy that never quite got to the root cause. Lauren has documented her story online and after diving fully into ketogenic therapy and metabolic treatment, she has had a remarkable recovery and changed her YouTube handle to Living Well _After_ Schizophrenia.
- Michelle Hurn: registered dietitian and ultra runner who, after years of battling anorexia and depression, ditched the high-carb guidelines she was trained to follow, and almost immediately experienced a transformation in her mental and physical health.
- Dr. Bret Scher: A board certified cardiologist who has specialized in ketogenic therapy and is a featured medical expert in The Cholesterol Code.
This isn't a conversation about whether LDL matters. It's about whether abandoning a life-changing therapy, just because one biomarker went up is really the answer. And how asking more questions, using imaging technology, and seeing a broader definition of health can help individuals dealing with this dilemma really understand their cardiovascular risk.
Learn more by watching The Cholesterol Code, which is now available on Amazon!
Visit the link below to buy or rent the film, share it with a friend or family member, and leave an honest review to help this information reach more people!
🎞️: amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0GS8ZFCYN
*Experts Featured:*
- Dr. Bret Scher
- Baszucki Group Medical Director
- X: https://x.com/bschermd
- Instagram: instagram.com/drbretscher
- Lauren Kennedy West
- Website: livingwellafterschizophrenia.com
- Youtube: youtube.com/LivingWellwithSchizophrenia
- X: https://x.com/LWSchizophrenia
- Instagram: instagram.com/livingwellafterschizophrenia
- Robyn Dobbins
- X: https://x.com/robynrdobbins
- Website: harbingerofhealthllc.com
- Youtube: youtube.com/@ketobiography
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robyn-dobbins-59bb1653
- Facebook: facebook.com/people/Robyn-R-Dobbins/100090891465253
- instagram.com/robynrdobbins
- Eric Rodgers
- X: https://x.com/DrEricRodgers
- Michelle Hurn
- Website: thedietitiansdilemma.net
- X: https://x.com/MichelleHurnRD
- Instagram: instagram.com/michelle_a_hurn
Follow our channel for more information and education from Bret Scher, MD, FACC, including interviews with leading experts in Metabolic Psychiatry.
Learn more about metabolic psychiatry and find helpful resources at metabolicmind.org
*About us:*
Metabolic Mind is a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group working to transform the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health. We leverage the science of metabolic psychiatry and personal stories to offer education, community, and hope to people struggling with mental health challenges and those who care for them.
Our channel is for informational purposes only. We are not providing individual or group medical or healthcare advice nor establishing a provider-patient relationship. Many of the interventions we discuss can have dramatic or potentially dangerous effects if done without proper supervision. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your lifestyle or medications.
