Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Emma Mann is a YouTuber who creates educational content about the carnivore diet (see links below). She is also the founder of Compassionate Carnivore—a natural skincare brand that focuses on creating products that are not only free from harmful chemicals, but come from a loving and humane place. She struggled with acne growing up—she was a vegan at the time—and it was not until she switched to a carnivore diet and started using whipped tall...
Jun 13, 2025•48 min•Season 1Ep. 235
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Kim VanDolah is a Christian wife and mother of six, an author, and a lifestyle coach passionate about guiding others toward renewal through a Simple Ancestral Lifestyle—centered on Simple Food, Simple Life, and Simple Presence. After years of seeking healing, wholeness, and vitality, Kim discovered that lasting transformation happens through small, heart-led changes rooted in ancestral wisdom and timeless truth. Her journey led her to reconn...
May 23, 2025•50 min•Season 1Ep. 234
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Doug Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of LowCarbUSA®—a platform offering a variety of educational tools and resources to medical practitioners and laypeople alike. He is also the President of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners—an organization founded to represent all researchers and practitioners working to improve metabolic health around the world through education, training, and support of evidence-based nutritional approaches, i...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 233
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Stefahn Daniel Jasper is a 45 year old truck driver and a patient of Dr. Tony’s. Despite the challenges of life on the road, Stefahn’s commitment to the low carb diet has led to many measurable health improvements. Against all odds, he has transformed his truck into a rolling haven of health and has been moving steadily toward greater and greater wellness. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Stefahn talk about: (00:00) Intro (02:02) Why Stefahn...
Feb 28, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 232
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Nima Rahmany is a leading expert in emotional regulation, trauma healing, and relationship transformation. After a distinguished career as a chiropractor, he transitioned into the field of emotional and somatic healing, developing his signature Overview Experience program. His work focuses on nervous system regulation, shadow work, and healing attachment wounds, helping high-achieving professionals, parents, and individuals break free fr...
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 231
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Sam Apple is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Apple taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania for ten years. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. He is the author of Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search fo...
Jan 31, 2025•40 min•Season 1Ep. 230
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Lisa Wiedeman is a practicing optometric physician who has been in practice since 1991. She is a passionate advocate of root cause healing for her patients and in both her virtual coaching groups as well as on her popular YouTube channel. She is known for her no nonsense straight forward "Suck it up, Buttercup" approach to those who will come up with excuses to defend their addictive foods. She has been a carnivore for 16 years and has b...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 229
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Scott and Sylvie are a low carb couple that Dr. Tony met on the Low Carb Cruise. They have an amazing story of healing and weight loss which they share in this episode. Their personal experience with the keto and carnivore diets has made them incredible resources for anyone considering following one of these dietary paths to metabolic health. In this discussion, Dr. Tony, Scott, and Sylvie talk about: (00:00) Intro (02:24) How great Dr. Ben ...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 228
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel (ret), practices at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine and developed the US Air Force Efficient Running Program. Mark has run competitively for four decades, with more than one hundred marathon and ultramarathon finishes, and he continues to compete as a masters runner with thirty straigh...
Jan 13, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 227
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel (ret), practices at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine and developed the US Air Force Efficient Running Program. Mark has run competitively for four decades, with more than one hundred marathon and ultramarathon finishes, and he continues to compete as a masters runner with thirty straigh...
Dec 22, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 226
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. In this episode of Protecting Your NEST, Dr. David Ahn, Chief of Diabetes Services at Hoag and creator behind TikTok’s @diabetesdoc, dives into the realities of managing and reversing diabetes. We discuss the role of low-carb and ketogenic diets, cutting-edge diabetes technologies, and the steps to achieving remission for type 2 diabetes. Dr. Ahn shares his expertise on empowering patients and debunking common myths about diabetes care. In t...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 225
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Amelia Wood is a Food-First Personal Trainer and Metabolic Health Coach based in the Seattle, Washington area. She is an ACE-Certified Personal Trainer and the founder of Primitive Pulse Fitness. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Amelia talk about: (03:37) How Amelia transitioned from working in the entertainment industry to working as a nutrition/health coach (10:05) Amelia’s health and wellness philosophy (14:30) The most common barriers to...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 224
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Sam Davis is the Education Practitioner of Knewtritional Knowledge. He focuses on developing strategies to get UNCOMMON science out to the public. He is an educator by trade with over 20 years of experience. He saw a need in the community to coordinate and consolidate education services aimed at increasing public awareness around emerging research regarding the effectiveness of lifestyle changes to prevent, reverse and decrease instances of ...
Nov 15, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 223
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Wayne Gradman graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors. He moved to California and completed his postgraduate studies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he practiced vascular surgery for over forty years. He is the author of The Fall Guy: How to Keep Gravity from Ruining Your Day , a primer on fall prevention. He won the Teacher of the Year award in 1998 and retired in 2018. In this discussion, Drs. Tony and Wayne talk about:...
Nov 08, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 222
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Ajalah Efem, who lives in the South Bronx, the poorest part of NYC, had diabetes and was experiencing debilitating depression before she started following a low-carb diet. She reversed her severe t2 diabetes on a low-carb diet in a matter of weeks. She recently told her amazing story of healing in her speech at the Metabolic Revolution Rally (see links below). In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Ajalah talk about: (03:18) The metabolic revoluti...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 221
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Jessica Apple is a writer, editor, and co-founder of a nonprofit magazine focusing on metabolic health and low-carb diabetes management. Her personal health journey involves personal experiences, including her mother's illness, her own struggle with autoimmune diabetes, and her family's health challenges. Jessica's quest for understanding led her to question traditional dietary advice and explore the ketogenic diet. In this discussion, Dr. T...
Oct 25, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 220
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Melanie Murphy Richter, MS, RDN is a dynamic and accomplished Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, recognized as 2023's “Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year" by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As a graduate instructor of Nutrition Physiology through the Lifespan at the University of California Irvine (UCI)'s Nursing Department, she mentors and educates future healthcare professionals on the power of nutrition on one’s health and hea...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 219
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Nelson Vazquez is a Family Medicine doctor with over 40 years of clinical experience. By reducing the carbs in his diet he has been able to improve his diabetes and other chronic illnesses. He has restored his health and is sharing the means by which he achieved this restoration with others through his YouTube channel (see links). In this discussion, Drs. Tony and Nelson talk about: (03:21) Why and when Dr. Nelson decided to become a doc...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 218
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Blaise V is a YouTube educational content creator with a passion for exploring science, health, and dietary topics. His videos combine an analytical and humorous approach to complex issues in the realm of nutrition and the biochemistry of the carnivore diet. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Blaise talk about: (03:19) How Blaise was first introduced to the carnivore diet and fasting (07:12) Medical conditions that improved for Blaise on the c...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 217
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Katherine Aitken Young is a registered nurse, nutritionist, metabolic health practitioner, entrepreneur, CEO, coach, wife, and mother. She is passionate about good food and digestive health and developed the IBS Game Changer program to apply her expertise and experience to helping people who have spent their lives feeling like they were at the mercy of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Sarah Aitken is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, as well as ...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 216
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Daniel Trevor is a citizen scientist and serial entrepreneur who has created several start-up businesses, including a high-tech CTI (computer-telephony integration) company that grew to over 300 employees. Being familiar with analyzing technical data throughout his life, he was comfortable taking a dive into medical and nutritional science to reverse his heart disease after a surprising heart attack. Lean and symptom-free, he thought he was ...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 215
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Jules Anacker is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of HEART Labs in San Diego, CA—a company that provides marketing services for metabolic health care. He is also a Partner and Co-Founder of the digital marketing solutions company, Numero 23. He was diagnosed with bipolar and spent 20+ years suffering with no hope from this affliction. It was not until he discovered the carnivore diet that he began to find relief and see improvement. In th...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Stephanie Person is a ketogenic fitness/health coach who has helped thousands of clients achieve amazing results. She first discovered the healing/therapeutic potential of the keto approach when her mom was able to heal her cancer by following the diet. In addition to her consulting and coaching work with clients, Stephanie is also an author, a speaker, and a YouTuber (see links below). In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Stephanie talk about: ...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 213
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Rhonda Townsend is 60 years young and 5’3”. She became a carnivore on January 2, 2023, because she wanted to lower her blood pressure and shed extra weight. She was able to slowly wean herself off medications, and after three months on carnivore, her blood pressure was within normal range. Additionally, her weight dropped down to 120 pounds which is 80 pounds down from her heaviest! In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Rhonda talk about: (03:15)...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 212
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Kenneth Hill is a Chicago carnivore. He has lost 62 pounds on the carnivore diet so far! Kenneth receently started a carnivore diet YouTube channel. Check out the links below for more info. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Kenneth talk about: (03:54) Kenneth’s background (05:31) Kenneth’s family’s response to his adoption of the carnivore diet (08:20) What seemed scary about carnivore when Kenneth first started looking into it and how his he...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Michael Papahronis is a patient of Dr. Tony’s. He has had Type-1 Diabetes for 27 years and has been a middle school teacher for over 20 years. He is a husband and father and has had his life saved and changed by the keto diet. This episode is part 2 of this conversation. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Michael talk about: (02:01) How Michael has been able to stay out of the hospital using diet and lifestyle tools (12:42) How using a CGM has...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Michael Papahronis is a patient of Dr. Tony’s. He has had Type 1 Diabetes for 27 years and has been a middle school teacher for over 20 years. He is a husband and father and has had his life saved and changed by the keto diet. Tune in next week for part 2 of this conversation! In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Michael talk about: (03:56) Michael’s childhood and how his childhood experiences shaped the person he became (07:45) How Michael’s Gr...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 209
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Donald Vega is a registered dietitian, strength and conditioning specialist and life-style mentor, based in Costa Rica with more than 24 years of experience in health education. He is the founder of Kilosophy which was established with one vision: “To reverse metabolic disease through a free, fit, happy and healthy society.” He has presented at conferences in Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Malaysia and was invited to presen...
Aug 02, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Carnivore Rabbi (Evan Moffic) is—as you may have already guessed—a Rabbi who is also an advocate of the carnivore diet. He has a growing YouTube channel called Carnivore Rabbi where he talks about the steps to finding success and peace of mind as a carnivore. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Rabbi Evan talk about: (03:06) How Evan came to reside in Chicago (05:20) Why Evan became a Rabbi (11:58) How Evan’s synagogue community has responded t...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Michelle Hurn is a registered and licensed dietitian with eleven years of experience as a clinical, acute care dietitian, lead dietitian in psychiatric care, and outpatient dietitian. Michelle is an avid endurance athlete, she has qualified for the Boston Marathon 12 times, and on November 7th 2020, she recently won her first ultra marathon covering 44.63 miles in a 6 hour timed race. Michelle has written the book, “The Dietitian’s Dilemma,”...
Jul 19, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 206
