At 27 years old, Dustin did not believe this was just going to be his lot in life so he continued to look for answers and spent a lot of time and money consulting different doctors, specialists and researching information on his own. He realized at one point that he was allowing the doctors to dictate his life by telling him how to live, eat, sleep, exercise and that he was not taking any ownership of his own health. It was at this crucial point that Dustin decided to clean the slate and made the decision to do something crazy – to stop eating for 14 days. First four days sucked and all he thought about was food and he didn’t’ really feel any better. On the fifth day, Dustin was helping a friend with a yard renovation project, and he finally felt like himself again, like he was invincible and could do anything. But what had Dustin done? He had kickstarted his body into ketosis and now he had to figure out how to eat keto to keep himself in a ketogenic state. It felt so good to finally feel good again. His energy, focus, strength, and vitality were up while his achiness was down. But it was also a bumpy journey discovering how to do the keto diet because 20 years ago the keto diet was not well known. Thinking he could eat some foods like sweet potatoes or fruit but also discovering that every time he did, he felt bad because at the time he didn’t realize he was kicking himself out of ketosis eating those “healthy foods.” Through trial and error, Dustin locked in on the keto diet, figured out he needed to exercise smarter not harder to optimize his health and gained a whole lot of knowledge along the way about general health, vitality, and wellness. He realized there is no perfect just better.

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