About the author

Dr. Barry Dublin, MD

Physician. Thirty years in metabolic medicine. Currently his own patient, in public, for 180 days.

30+ years

in clinical practice

Metabolic medicine

weight, brain energy, insulin resistance

Therapeutic ketosis

the SKLeTT Protocol, developed over three decades

New York

in-office medical care; coaching nationwide

I am a practicing physician with more than thirty years of medical experience. Early in my career I was on the conventional surgical training pathway. I left it, because prevention and metabolic health interested me more than procedures did.

Weight loss, brain energy, and metabolic medicine turned out to be the work I wanted. So I moved into research and metabolic medicine and spent years on therapeutic ketosis, brain energy metabolism, and nutritional intervention. I have watched patients in their nineties regain cognitive function. I have watched high performers get their edge back. I have also watched people fail, repeatedly, for reasons that had nothing to do with willpower.

Then my own fasting glucose crossed into diabetic territory while I was treating other people for the same thing.

Since 2022 I have started therapeutic ketosis twenty-three times and failed twenty-three times. My longest logged run was forty-five days. On June 17, 2026 I started again — and this time I am posting my blood ketone number every day, in public, until December 13. The good days and the crashes. Before I began, I scored ninety-nine of my own symptoms so the comparison could not be rewritten by memory afterwards.

That is the short version of why this site exists. Not to sell a transformation, but to show one being attempted at full transparency, by a physician who is the patient.

How the writing here works

Every article on this site is written and reviewed by me. These are the rules I hold it to.

  • Every term is defined the first time it appears, and again when it comes back.
  • Every citation is verified at the source before it is published — journal, year, and a plain-English note on what the study found.
  • Claims are ranked out loud: established, plausible, or speculative.
  • What didn't work gets published alongside what did. The symptoms that never moved are in print.
  • Numbers say how they were obtained — measured, scored, or remembered.
  • Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing here is a cure claim.

In-office medical care

For patients in the New York area. Full physician care including treatment, lab interpretation, prescriptions, and ongoing management.

Online coaching, nationwide

Protocol coaching and education. You keep your own local physician for medical care while I guide you through the SKLeTT Protocol.

The work itself

Work with me directly

The SKLeTT Coaching Program is twelve weeks, physician-supervised, with daily monitoring. Limited to a small number of clients at a time.

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Everything published on NeuraLift is for education. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and reading it does not create a doctor–patient relationship. Therapeutic ketosis can interact with prescription medication. Talk to your own physician before changing how you eat.