Episode 234: Return to Simple with Kim VanDolah
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Release Date: 05/23/2025
Episode 242: John E. Ellis, MD
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. John E. Ellis, MD is a retired anesthesiologist. Following years of struggling with weight and metabolic health, Dr. Ellis discovered the power of a low-carb lifestyle—losing excess weight, improving his energy, and reclaiming his vitality. Now he’s passionate about sharing what he’s learned, blending a physician’s eye for evidence with the lived experience of someone who has reshaped his own health. Through speaking, mentoring, and community engagement, Dr. Ellis inspires others to rethink nutrition and take control of their...
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Episode 241: Temple Stewart
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Temple Stewart, RD, is a registered dietitian and metabolic health expert known for helping people transform their lives through low-carb, ketogenic, and carnivore nutrition. A former collegiate athlete turned nutrition coach, Temple blends science-based guidance with real-world practicality to help clients reverse insulin resistance, restore energy, and achieve lasting wellness. Through her online programs and popular social media presence, she’s empowering thousands to reclaim their metabolic health—one meal at a time. In this...
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Episode 240: Vinnie Tortorich
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Vinnie Tortorich is a celebrity fitness trainer, podcaster, and best-selling author known as “America’s Angriest Trainer.” With decades of experience helping people cut through diet myths and fitness fads, he’s built a global following by telling it like it is. Vinnie is the creator of the No Sugar No Grains (NSNG®) lifestyle, host of the long-running Fitness Confidential podcast, and producer of the hit documentary Fat: A Documentary. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Vinnie talk about: (00:00) Intro (05:19) The inception of the...
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Episode 239: Terri Carter
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Terri Carter is a carnivore diet VETERAN with tons of practical tips and tricks for anyone interested in trying carnivore themselves. She has hit stalls and encountered setbacks of various kinds and has overcome them all. Take notes because this episode contains a lot of pure wisdom distilled from years of experience. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Terri talk about: (00:00) Intro (03:11) Why Terri jumped ship from the standard American diet to the carnivore diet (10:08) Gut health and the carnivore diet (14:01) Sugar withdrawal and...
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Episode 238: Meet Wick Goes Carnivore: The Man Who Lost 80+ lbs with Ribeye Power!
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Today we’re joined by Brian Nowicki, the creator of ‘Wick Goes Carnivore’ on YouTube. Brian has shared a remarkable transformation—over 80 pounds lost—and, more importantly, a story about reclaiming health, energy, and hope. He talks mindset, practical strategies, and the real-world wins and stumbles along the way. We’re going to explore not just what he eats, but why the approach worked for his body—through the lenses of insulin, inflammation, sleep, stress, and identity. Brian, welcome to the N.E.S.T. In this...
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Episode 237: Phumi (Carnivore Cutie)
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Phumi (Carnivore Cutie) is a carnivore YouTuber and social media influencer who reversed her PCOS in 3 months following a strict carnivore diet. In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Phumi talk about: (00:00) Intro (02:55) How PCOS impacted Phumi’s life (05:21) Reversing PCOS with the carnivore diet (09:43) Why Phumi initially went vegan and later went carnivore (13:31) How carnivore greatly reduced Phumi’s pain from endometriosis (18:08) Why carnivore provides sufficient nutrients (22:46) What a normal day of eating looks like for a...
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Episode 236: Priming for Health: How Raymond Nazon Beat Disease with a Carnivore Diet
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Raymond Nazon is a carnivore coach and the inventor of the priming concept for the carnivore diet. The list of issues he was experiencing prior to carnivore includes: pre-diabetes, plantar fasciitis, waist size of 44, rosacea, mid-back pain, arthritic knee and finger joints, heel spurs, poor libido, high triglycerides, low HDL, blood pressure, pre-hypertension, snoring, dandruff, acne, diminishing eyesight, poor wound-healing, irritable bowel disease, chronic constipation, constant brain fog, insomnia and more. Now, after following a...
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Episode 235: Compassionate Carnivore with Emma Mann
Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton
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 tallow butter on her skin that she began to look and feel healthy again. In this...
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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...
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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...
info_outlineWelcome 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/