Metabolic Therapy for ADHD, Depression & Borderline Personality | Benjiman Boyd

📣 Benjiman Boyd was a pre-diabetic high school dropout battling ADHD, depression, and medication-induced mood swings. A ketogenic diet changed the trajectory of his life — and now he's studying the neurometabolism behind mental illness.📋 As a teenager, Benjiman Boyd was a pre-diabetic high school dropout battling ADHD, severe depression, and chaotic mood swings while on multiple medications. After his family tried a ketogenic diet out of sheer desperation, he experienced rapid weight loss, dramatic improvements in mood, memory, and focus, and a renewed belief that he could learn again. That turnaround launched him back into school, into an honors degree in Applied Psychology, and now into graduate work exploring how neurometabolism shapes personality and serious mental illness. In this episode, Ben shares the vulnerable details of medication struggles, emergency inpatient care, and identity collapse, and how ketogenic and other metabolic therapies helped him build resilience, return to academics, and begin advocating for people with conditions like borderline personality disorder through his work with Metabolic Collective.🔑 What You'll LearnHow childhood-onset ADHD, depression, and unstable home life led Ben to drop out of high school and feel hopeless about his ability to learnWhy conventional ADHD and antidepressant medications left him with extreme mood swings, anger outbursts, and an emergency inpatient stay instead of stabilityHow a family decision to try a paleo-based ketogenic diet triggered rapid weight loss, sharper memory, better focus, and the confidence to return to schoolThe journey from GED to graduating with honors in Applied Psychology and into grad school, and why Ben chose to focus on the neurometabolism of mental health and personalityWhy he now chooses metabolic therapy for treatment-resistant borderline personality disorder, and how community and metabolic rhythm (sleep, fasting, movement) sustain his own brain health on a grad-student budget💡 Key Insight"I don't want to say all my success, but a very significant amount of my success, I owe to the ketogenic diet and the broader metabolic therapies that helped me find my focus, my resilience, and my sense of self again." — Benjiman Boyd🎥 The Magic Pill: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B078H4J7G1/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r🌐 Connect with Benjiman BoydX: https://x.com/BenjiBoyd4Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.boyd.685560LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjiman-boyd-aa389524bBen's THINK+SMART profile: https://www.metabolicmind.org/thinksmart/explore-strategies/benjiman-boyd/💚 Metabolic CollectiveWebsite: https://www.metaboliccollective.orgX: https://x.com/metcollectiveYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective⚕️ 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.⏳ Chapters0:47 Introduction and Ben's background3:41 Mental health struggles, ADHD diagnosis, and dropping out7:40 Discovering the ketogenic diet9:50 Weight loss, memory, focus, and returning to school14:38 From GED to honors degree in Applied Psychology16:50 Getting off medications and metabolic therapies22:45 Keto on a grad student budget30:20 Identity, food culture, and the grievance process36:09 Titrating off medications and building metabolic rhythm42:05 Grad school thesis on keto and borderline personality disorder51:43 What drew Ben to BPD as a research focus56:16 Ben's role with Metabolic Collective1:05:35 Building community and breaking down barriers🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.🌱 Know someone with a keto success story? Nominate them to be featured: [email protected]🔗 Subscribe, follow, and leave a review — it helps more people find the show.👥 Connect with Robyn: https://www.robyndobbins.com https://linktr.ee/robyn.r.dobbins🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on Amazon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.