Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Amy Berger takes on the world of “biohacking” and keto tracking culture, arguing that data and devices can either empower people or quietly wreck their mental health. She walks through how tools like CGMs, ketone meters, weight scales, and meticulous food logging can genuinely help assess progress, validate dietary changes, and guide future tweaks—when used in context. At the same time, she highlights stories of people driven into fear, confusion, and paralysis by conflicting influencers, extreme rules, and obsession with “perfect” numbers, coining her motto of “keto without the crazy” as a response. Throughout, she makes the case that keto, low carb, and carnivore should enlarge your life—not make it smaller—and calls on viewers to reassess the role of constant optimization, tracking, and social media in their health journey.
👉 Register at `https://cosci.org` for our coming CoSci 2026 at on March 13-15 in Las Vegas, NV. As with this presentation from 2025, you'll see great talks from Shawn Baker, Ken Berry, Amber O'Hearn, Nick Norwitz, Bret Scher and many, many more.
🎗️And best of all – CoSci is a charity event to support the Citizen Science Foundation, a 501(c)3 Public Charity supporting low carb/keto research like our #LMHR Study.
🫶 So you'll get to watch a great conference and support a good cause. Tickets start for as little as $25 – register now at `https://cosci.org`
⏱ Chapters
2:00 – Feldman inversion pattern & context
4:00 – Benefits of tracking and biohacking
6:26 – When numbers become your judge & jury
8:20 – Data as empowerment instead of fear
10:00 – APOE4, risk, and targeted action
12:04 – Getting lost in keto influencer noise
14:00 – “Ketoic” anxiety and fear of food
16:05 – Stressing over ketones vs living life
18:01 – Clickbait, hyperbole, and burned-out viewers
20:01 – Taking an “information vacation” from optimization
22:02 – Purging fear-based voices from your feed
24:44 – Reassessing tools, not abandoning keto
27:59 – Do you really need all this tracking?
29:12 – Final reminder: life first, wellness tools second
#AmyBerger #keto #lowcarb #biohacking #mentalhealth #nutrition #ketodiet #wellness #CoSci #CitizenScienceFoundation #LMHRStudy
Amy Berger takes on the world of “biohacking” and keto tracking culture, arguing that data and devices can either empower people or quietly wreck their mental health. She walks through how tools like CGMs, ketone meters, weight scales, and meticulous food logging can genuinely help assess progress, validate dietary changes, and guide future tweaks—when used in context. At the same time, she highlights stories of people driven into fear, confusion, and paralysis by conflicting influencers, extreme rules, and obsession with “perfect” numbers, coining her motto of “keto without the crazy” as a response. Throughout, she makes the case that keto, low carb, and carnivore should enlarge your life—not make it smaller—and calls on viewers to reassess the role of constant optimization, tracking, and social media in their health journey.
👉 Register at `https://cosci.org` for our coming CoSci 2026 at on March 13-15 in Las Vegas, NV. As with this presentation from 2025, you'll see great talks from Shawn Baker, Ken Berry, Amber O'Hearn, Nick Norwitz, Bret Scher and many, many more.
🎗️And best of all – CoSci is a charity event to support the Citizen Science Foundation, a 501(c)3 Public Charity supporting low carb/keto research like our #LMHR Study.
🫶 So you'll get to watch a great conference and support a good cause. Tickets start for as little as $25 – register now at `https://cosci.org`
⏱ Chapters
2:00 – Feldman inversion pattern & context
4:00 – Benefits of tracking and biohacking
6:26 – When numbers become your judge & jury
8:20 – Data as empowerment instead of fear
10:00 – APOE4, risk, and targeted action
12:04 – Getting lost in keto influencer noise
14:00 – “Ketoic” anxiety and fear of food
16:05 – Stressing over ketones vs living life
18:01 – Clickbait, hyperbole, and burned-out viewers
20:01 – Taking an “information vacation” from optimization
22:02 – Purging fear-based voices from your feed
24:44 – Reassessing tools, not abandoning keto
27:59 – Do you really need all this tracking?
29:12 – Final reminder: life first, wellness tools second
#AmyBerger #keto #lowcarb #biohacking #mentalhealth #nutrition #ketodiet #wellness #CoSci #CitizenScienceFoundation #LMHRStudy
