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Episode 234: Return to Simple with Kim VanDolah

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

Release Date: 05/23/2025

Episode 234: Return to Simple with Kim VanDolah

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 reconnect with the Amish and the True-Hearted—those whose quiet strength and...

Episode 233: An Engineer's Journey to Metabolic Health w/Doug Reynolds

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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, including carbohydrate restriction, as a valid therapeutic option or intervention. In this...

Episode 232: Stefahn Daniel Jasper

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 initially started looking into the low carb diet (03:11) Stefahn’s motivation for working so...

Episode 231: Emotional Healing with Dr. Nima Rahmany

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 from toxic patterns and achieve deep emotional resilience. In this discussion, Drs. Tony and Nima talk...

Episode 230: The Cancer-Diet Connection with Sam Apple

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 for the Cancer-Diet Connection. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Sam talk about: (00:00) Intro...

Episode 229: Dr. Lisa Wiedeman the Carnivore Doctor

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 been coaching others to optimal health for over a decade. In this discussion, Drs. Tony...

Episode 228: Low Carb for Longevity with Scott and Sylvie

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 Bikman is (03:59) Scott and Sylvia’s health journey and how they discovered low-carb and keto...

Episode 227: Why Our Health is Failing and How to Fix It with Dr. Mark Cucuzzella (Part 2)

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 straight years under a 3-hour marathon. Mark owns the first minimalist running and walking shoe...

Episode 226: Why Our Health is Failing and How to Fix It w/Dr. Mark Cucuzzella (Part 1)

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

Episode 225: Reversing Diabetes, Myth or Reality with Dr. Ahn

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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 this discussion, Drs. Tony and David talk about: (02:34) What led Dr. Ahn to study endocrinology...

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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 reconnect with the Amish and the True-Hearted—those whose quiet strength and faith-filled ways now deeply inspire her work.

In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Kim talk about:

(00:00) Intro
(02:22) What it means to return to simplicity
(06:38) How to practice simplicity
(08:55) The most anti-inflammatory food on the planet
(10:45) Helping people break free from food confusion
(15:12) Ancestral, animal-based nutrition
(17:45) Cold showers
(19:28) The Standard American Diet
(22:39) Food Addiction
(28:02) Why business doesn’t equal faithfulness
(32:20) Why connecting with nature is important for your health
(37:10) Fasting as food freedom
(39:54) Childlike joy
(44:44) Living detached from technology
(48:08) Outro

Thank you for listening to Protecting Your Nest. For additional resources and information, please see the links below.

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

The #1 Most Anti-Inflammatory Food in the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIQd9_J_YU0
The Sugar Diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNH4ZkMJJ4

Kim VanDolah:

Return to Simple (book): https://www.amazon.com/Return-Simple-Journey-Hope-Truth
Website: https://www.return2simple.com
Substack: https://kimvandolah.substack.com

Dr. Tony Hampton:

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/drtonyhampton
Instagram Account: https://www.instagram.com/drtonyhampton/
LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtonyhampton/
Ritmos Negros Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ritmos-negros/id1534043495
Q Med: https://qmedcme.com
Symposium for Metabolic Health Lectures: https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/san-diego-2022/
How Waking Up Every Day at 4:30 Can Change Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOEB1Fr0_MM

• • Keto Mojo: https://keto-mojo.com/speakers/tony-hampton/

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