Ketobiography Hope is a Metabolic Therapy | Healing Bipolar, Brain Fog & Building the Metabolic Collective
In this deeply moving and hope-filled episode, we welcome Janet Ebos, a holistic nutritionist, musician, teacher, mother, and advocate for metabolic psychiatry and neurology. Janet shares her family’s powerful journey, from her son's bipolar diagnosis and life-threatening lows to her healing from migraines, canker sores, and debilitating brain fog. She also takes us behind the scenes of the emerging nonprofit Metabolic Collective, a grassroots movement uniting patients, clinicians, and advocates working to expand access to metabolic therapies for brain-based conditions.
This is not just a story of nutritional healing, it’s a call to action, a celebration of community, and a reminder that hope is its own form of medicine.
Chapters
00:00 – Welcome to Ketobiography
01:52 – Meet Janet Ebos: Holistic Nutritionist & Advocate
05:45 – A Mother’s Mission: Bipolar, Depression & a Search for Answers
11:33 – The Ketogenic Connection: From Brain Fog to Clarity
19:44 – Continuous Glucose Monitors & Data That Changes Lives
27:00 – Supporting Others at Rock Bottom
34:18 – The Power of Hope in Nutritional Psychiatry
41:25 – Brain Health, Alzheimer’s, and Family Healing
47:05 – Inside the Metabolic Collective: A Grassroots Revolution
58:02 – Practical Support: How Janet Starts with Clients
1:08:44 – Travel, Flexibility, and Healing Beyond Dogma
1:16:55 – Strategies from Metabolic Mind & The Think Smart Framework
1:22:14 – Where to Find Janet + Volunteer with the Collective
1:26:09 – Final Insight: Why Hope—and Stories—Matter Most
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How Janet supported her son through severe bipolar episodes with metabolic tools
- Why she ditched sugar and gluten to reclaim her mental clarity
- How Metabolic Collective was born and why it's changing lives
- Why storytelling and community are essential to sustainable healing
- How fun, laughter, and support groups are also forms of metabolic therapy
- Why therapeutic ketosis may not be forever, and how to trust your body again
- Strategies to gently guide clients into nutritional change without being overwhelmed
Key Insight:
"Your hope is contagious. I just want people to know what's possible." – Janet Ebos
Connect with Janet Ebos:
- Website: Purely Janet
- Email: janet@metaboliccollective.org | janet@purelyjanet.ca
- X: @JanetENutrition
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