Yes, I am actually a Dad! I fell upon keto over 8 years ago after putting on a good amount of weight (see picture below) and finding myself using a CPAP for sleep apnea (I would stop breathing 56x an hour!). Scans found arthritis in my big toes and even in my back - my sports-induced bursitis was flaring terribly. Suddenly after eliminating inflammatory foods (ahem, carbs), my weight dropped, my sleep apnea was gone and I was running like a 20 year old! In fact, I ran my first half-marathon in April 2018 in just under 2 hours! In a short while, I felt like I shaved years off my life! I still do.
What started as a personal journey with keto became a much bigger question: What if we've been thinking about food and health too narrowly?
Why Dad's?
Because food affects far more than the number on the scale.
For years, keto has been marketed primarily as a way to lose weight. But nutrition reaches much further than weight alone. What we eat influences our blood sugar, insulin, energy, inflammation, sleep, hunger and metabolic health. And increasingly, researchers are studying the connection between metabolic health, the brain and mental well-being.
That's why at Dad's, we're looking beyond the scale. We believe better food starts with better ingredients. Our meals are made with real food, quality proteins and fats, and very few carbohydrates — without added sugar, gluten, seed oils or artificial dyes.
We're also following the rapidly developing science around metabolic health and mental health, including the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry and research into therapeutic ketogenic nutrition. Dad's Keto Kitchen isn't a medical clinic, and our food isn't intended to treat or cure disease. We're a kitchen.
BUT we're a kitchen that believes food matters. That's why we cook from scratch. That's why ingredients matter to us.
That's why we take keto seriously. And that's why our mission has grown beyond simply helping people lose weight.
We want to help people fuel better, feel better and build better metabolic health — one meal at a time. Because keto can be about weight loss. But it can also be about what happens beyond the scale.
It took me 48 years to find out what I wanted to be when I grew up. Turns out I'm Dad!
