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Will Cole

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“And in that way, I think that can make a lot of people can think about this. It's like, wow, I'm screwed. Like if it wasn't, I have my own junk, let alone my ancestor's stuff.”
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“Being explored in the science, but I could only imagine that it exists on a spectrum, that maybe all of our descendants haven't gone through the same things. But I think intuitively, again, we can know that there are certain behaviors and certain ways of people live in part because of what our ancestors have gone through. So, yeah, that's what's being explored”
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“Interconnected different biochemical pathways that impact inflammation levels, impact neurotransmitters and how our brain works, different detoxification pathways that literally this trauma that the people went through during this Ukrainian genocide was passed on like an epigenetic heirloom of how genes were expressed by their experience. Similar research was done in the Holocaust and the descendants of people that went through the Holocaust in Germany and Poland. So yes, it's sound science fiction, but intergenerational trauma are transgenerational trauma looking at how trauma is literally stored in the cells and then passed on through family lines is very much science. And it's shown that these people have increased likelihood of mental health issues, autoimmune issues, type 2 diabetes, different hormonal problems. And this is what”
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“Geopolitical, historical things that were big things in our world are really were explored in the scientific literature to see how this plays out. One was a Ukrainian genocide, man made famine in the early twentieth century, Joseph Stalin, the Ukrainian people wanted to have freedom, really nothing new is under the sun every time the Ukrainian people wanted to have freedom there was some sort of authoritarian squash on their efforts. But this famine in the early nineteen hundreds was done on the Ukrainian people. Millions of people died. And what researchers have found is not just the people that went through this atrocity, their children and their grandchildren had the same methylation gene variants. Methylation is something that we quantify on labs.”
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“Yeah. Well, and that's, yes, it is true. It is true. It's what researchers are really exploring of how it's expressed in our descendants. And then we all have trauma just in our own life, right? And we all know. These are things that we can accumulate and through, things like therapy and somatic experiences and things like EMDR that I talk about, you can work on your trauma in your life. But for some of us, part of our trauma in our life today has to do with the trauma that our ancestors have gone through. So two kinds.”
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“To be the best you, like to be the best CEO, to be the best successful human being, to be the best partner, we have to have our health. And I see a lot of high performing, successful people that don't want to choose either or. They want to be successful, but they realize they cannot be the highest performing person if they don't have their health. And I see people start their health eroding because it is unsustainable to always be in that sympathetic fight or flight stress state. And they know intuitively something's off here. I got away with it in my 20s. I'm getting away with it mostly in my 30s. But they start to erode. And then when you have your health, Look not as sustainable and impenetrable as you thought it was, then at that point, oftentimes it's that motivation that you just said that actually motivates them to get healthy.”
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“I think it's our culture's priorities, right? It's like burnout is this badge of honor and like status and how many followers you have on social media, how many downloads you have is seen as it's deified, is glorified in many ways. And I think this unsexy stuff like, you know, getting it and whatever, fascinating or eating well isn't as alluring because it's people don't see it all the time. So I think it's human nature. I think our culture is really sells us a lot of things as far as what's important and how we look and things that are materialistic tend to be top of the list. So I don't think it's about, it's not just you, it's me, it's all of us. We all are in this culture that tells us this is what's important. But ultimately, my experience.”
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“to live a more joyous, leave a more meaningful life. Some people can handle probably more technology than me. Some people could probably, we all have, again, this bioindividuality when it comes to these things, but I think we just need to. Of self respect, check ourselves.”
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“A balanced way where I have boundaries with technology. Like my son's here in the studio with us right now. He's 16 years old. He just got a phone at 16. And so as a parent, I'm making these decisions of there's kids that are like eight, nine years old having social media. And we have the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivik Murthy, say recently that he says, and this is the US government saying children under the age of 14 shouldn't have social media. If the US government's saying it, who takes well measured conservative advice for these type of things when it comes to wellness historically, if they're recommending it, I could only assume that we have an issue at hand. So yes, I think it's just a matter of all of us to make these decisions for ourselves out of self-respect, not out of shame, but out of self respect. What do I need? What healthy margins, what healthy boundaries do I need to live?”
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“Yeah, I mean, to me, I don't think you have to pick between modernity and decreasing that chasm between genetics and epigenetics. So I live in a modern world. I run a telehealth clinic. So I use technology to speak to people around the world for the past 13 years and we ship labs to them. And so I very much am a fan of technology and people are listening to us right now around the world. I love the decentralization, the democratization of health information because of technology. It's wonderful. But I think the sort of unfettered lack of healthy boundaries with this phenomenon that we only have relatively few years of experience with us as a world, I think that that's something we just have to learn how to check ourselves. We are all trying to figure it out. So do I live it? Yes, I live it, but I live it in.”
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“Of the Japanese art of using nature as a meditation, using nature as a medicine, and how researchers show like just spending few minutes in nature and taking in with all of your senses, like a sensorial effect of nature lowers inflammation levels, lower stress hormones, balances the human immune system, actually improves the human microbiome because of the things you're smelling in and taking in with all of your senses. So I think the fact that researchers are looking at these ancient arts is a good sign that we as a culture are looking for something different. Because I think in many ways, do you remember that Pixar film Wally? I think Wally's prophetic in many ways of like the path we could go down where people are just sitting looking at a screen and we have lost all sense of reality.”
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“Yeah, I mean, it's something I think often about. And I think that there's a growing amount of pockets of people, if you will, that know intuitively they have to do something different to see something different. And being in functional medicine for the past 13 plus years at this point, I had to say what was once considered radical or fringe 13 years ago, the idea that stress and trauma could trigger autoimmune issues is now very much talked about in conventional settings, and that things that may have seen woo woo and strange thirteen years ago now is being researched by reputable institutions. I talk about the research of the book around Shinran Yoku, which is the Japanese term that translates as forest bathing, which sounds weird when you think of it in English, but it's actually a beautiful description.”
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“The tipping point is health problems where something's got to give. And they realize they're diagnosed with a health problem, and it's stressors, the foods we eat, trauma, all of these things accumulate. You can't change your bucket size, but you can change what you put in it. You can't change your genetic tolerance for stressors, but you can change what you put in it. So it's really a message of agency, right? It's a message of what can I do? We all have different abilities or thresholds to handle things in our life, but we all have the ability to clear these things out and to heal ultimately.”
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“Yeah. Well, that is in part what's driving these vast. Epidemic of health problems in our world today. When you're talking about 50 million Americans habiting autoimmune condition hundreds of millions worldwide are having autoimmune condition, type 2 diabetes. I mean, it's the vast majority of people in the West are somewhere on this insulin resistance spectrum, meaning they have things like PCOS or weight loss resistance or insatiable cravings or prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. All of these health problems that we are plagued with as a world are in part fed by chronic stress. It's just a matter of how much your body can handle. And that sort of the conversation in the book about bioindividuality, right? Some people have the buck analogies sort of that bucket analogy. Some people have massive buckets and they can handle a lot of things in their life before it's going to hit that tipping point.”
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“Stress adaptation responses in the body and the body's releasing things like cortisol and adrenaline. And we never allow this sympathetic fight or flight stress aspect of our autodomic nervous system to calm down. So we're always in this fight or flight stressed state to varying degrees that people never are able to regulate themselves and never able to support that parasympathetic, that resting, digesting, that hormone balance state of their nervous system. So yeah, it could look different for different people, but the things that I hear the most with from people, it's their jobs, it's like a lack of, I would say, healthy boundaries with their jobs and their families can be a source of stressor, finances. can be a sort of stress and their health. I think when you don't feel well, that's stressful as well. Those are the most common things that I hear from people.”
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“Yeah, human species, the human species wouldn't be here without some grit and resilience. And I think in some ways you could argue that That were really lacking their resilience in grit, and that's something that I'm teaching my patients in in the book for people to sort of gain a resilience to handle stress. There's nothing wrong inherently with stress. And even if you look at the research around hormetic effects or hormesis, like people are doing the cold plunges you see all around the wellness space or sauna therapy or high intensity interval training or even things like fasting. These are all hormetic effects that humans would have spent time in, like difficult times, periodic times of stress. That actually makes ourselves more resilient and our souls more resilient in many ways. But it's the chronic stress where it's out of alignment with that ancestral health perspective. That evolutionary mismatch that I mentioned earlier, that is something that we haven't aligned with. We have these different”
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“Have an increased likelihood of an autoimmune issue later on in life or a mental health issue later on in life or a metabolic like type 2 diabetes issue later on in life. So again, there's a lot of shame around that stuff too as far as what people have gone through. So shame flammation is really just my term to explain this phenomenon that's in the scientific literature that I see play out in people's lives on a daily basis”
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“Attenuates, calms that inflammatory response. And that's just one of many, but we know most health problems of why people are visiting their doctor are stress related that are either exacerbated by stress, that are flared up by stress, or literally caused by stress. When you're looking at things like autoimmune issues, we have patients fill out what's called an adverse childhood experience score. Every telehealth patient that we have. And research has shown that people that have these higher ACE scores, these cumulative childhood and beyond childhood lifestyle, like life stressors, whether physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental emotional abuse, alcohol abuse in the home growing up, people that have gone through these things in life.”
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“Feeling that people have Which is really the antithesis of someone that's shaming themselves. It is someone that has sort of grace and a lightness and a self-compassion around it. The study had people do, they had them speak in public or do math, which apparently that's what we hate the most as humans. But they measured their inflammation levels when they were doing these stressful things, right? And their inflammation levels were high. Interleukin six, it's IL6 inflammatory protein. But the people that practice self-compassion during this time had the lowest levels of inflammation. And on day two, you'd expect, okay, the person would sort of adapt and the people that were doing the math or the public speaking, maybe the inflammation would come down. Actually, the inflammation levels were higher on day two than day one, sort of this cumulative effect.”
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“Yeah, well, it's really a commentary on inflammation. It's not that shame inflammation is a literal real thing. It's a commentary on how does what's shown in the research as far as things like chronic stress, which is so well researched, and trauma, and I talk about in the book something called intergenerational or transgenerational trauma, how do these things impact our body, our physical health? So shame is sort of a term that a lot of my patients feel varying degrees of shame. They feel shame that they're not perfect enough with their body or around food or around life itself, not being the best parent or the best whatever in their life. There's a lot of health-related shame in our world and just shame in general when it comes to life. So shame is sort of the term that I used in the book of how to explain the sort of mental emotion.”
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“But yet our world has changed dramatically in a really finite period of time when you're putting that into context with the totality of human history. So the foods we're eating or the foods we're not eating, our stress levels, our collective and personal traumas, environmental toxins, our soil microbiome disruption and depletion, and in turn impacting our gut microbiome. So all of these epigenetic modulators, if you will, are DNAs living in this brave new world, and it's awakening genetic predispositions that have been lying dormant there for ten thousand years, by their being triggered like never before in human history because of this onslaught of this chasm between our DNA and the world around us.”
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“It's about four to ten years prior to that diagnosis when things were brewing on the spectrum, meaning by the time somebody gets diagnosed officially, it didn't happen overnight for most people. So it's no matter where you're at, how can you be supporting your gut and your feelings? How can you be supporting your physical health and your mental emotional spiritual health? So to answer the second part of your question is like, what are the most common causes of it? It really stems the broad umbrella of it has to do with what researchers refer to as an evolutionary mismatch or an epigenetic genetic mismatch. Our genetics, it's estimated, hasn't changed, haven't changed in about 10,000 years.”
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“or wired and tired is the other way of putting it. They have different digestive problems. I mean, the amount of people that have chronic constipation or IBS or some sort of digestive issue that, again, they're every day, so they normalize it. But these things are anything but normal. They're just ubiquitous. And I would put under that category mental health issues, anxiety and depression, autoimmune reactivity issues, and people that have hormonal problems. And then stage three is a full-blown diagnosable issue. Like they're going to their doctor and they're given an ICD-10 code in the States. They're given some diagnostic code, and they're given a medication or recommended some conventional treatment. But researchers estimate that”
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“Sure. So this three the way that we see it in functional medicine, those three main stages, if you will, on this continuum, this inflammation spectrum. On one end, the silent inflammation, silent autoimmunity, meaning if you ran labs, you'd see some markers off like a high sensitivity C reactive protein, which is quite a conventional marker. You'd see that spiked. You see maybe a homocysteine level elevated in another inflammatory protein. But the person feels all right. Everything's cool. Stage two is the inflammation reactivity. That's the vast majority of people living in our planet today are in stage two or three. Stage two, a lot of people are there. They have things like brain fog. They have things like fatigue. They have some sort of dysregulated nervous system response, a way that people typically will say it. They'll say I'm anxious.”
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“Beneficial bacteria like hormones. We don't want too much hormones, like a dominance of hormones. We don't want the deficiency of hormones either. Inflammation is the same thing. We don't want excess inflammation. That's what's associated with all of these chronic health problems. And we don't want a deficiency. That's immunosuppressed people that people have immunodeficiencies. That's not good either. So it's about modulating and supporting healthy inflammatory pathways. It's really the clinical objective for my patients and for the average person out there that's looking to optimize how they want to feel that should be their goal as well.”
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“That there's a problem. Chronic inflammation, its associated with just about every health problem under the sun when you're looking at what researchers are looking at these inflammatory components, you're looking at autoimmune issues, metabolic issues like type 2 diabetes, when you look at cancer, heart disease, two, mental health issues, as I mentioned, this sort of cytokine, looking at the neuroinflammatory component to things like anxiety and depression. So that's what inflammation is. When it goes chronic, it really sets off a lot of cascade of dysregulation in the body because it's a lack of homeostasis. It's the Goldilocks principle. It's not too high, not too low, but just right. That's where you want inflammation, just like many things in the body, just like the gut bacteria in our microbiome. You don't want bacterial overgrowths. We don't want a deficit of.”
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“It is abstract. I think to your point, I use it so flippantly that I realize Emman's weird health bubble, but it is a nebulous term. It's not inherently bad. It's a product of the immune system. The immune system makes different proteins, different amino acids, different chemical messengers, if you will. That fights viruses, fights bacteria, heals wounds. So when you think of inflammation in this sort of normal acute state, it's somebody sporting injury and their knee swells up, right? That's acute inflammation rushing nutrients and healing and oxygen in white blood cells to the area to repair it, to rejuvenate it. That's normal measured human inflammation. We would be goners as a species without normal inflammatory response. When inflammation goes chronic,”
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“Armin issues, but also to mental health issues because it is the second brain. But then conversely, the feeling stuff, like I really talk about in the book, the research around chronic stress and trauma and even intergenerational trauma, how these big, complex things, these mental emotional, spiritual things are literally stored in ourselves, dysregulating our nervous system, raising inflammation levels, impacting how our hormones are expressed. So it's both a gut and a feeling side of two sides of the same coin that impact. I had these conversations with my patients all the time. It just was a matter of when I had the conversation in book form.”
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“their autoimmune issues. So both the gut and the feelings part of it are the things that we know from the research, and I have a lot of clinical experience to show how these things impact people's health. So the gut things, i.e. like underlying gut problems, 75% of the immune system, inflammation's a product of the immune system. Our gut and brain are actually formed from the same fetal tissue. So when babies are growing in their mother's womb, the gut and brain are formed from that same fetal tissue and they are inextricably linked for the rest of our life through what's known as the gut brain axis or the connection between the gut and the brain. And if you think about it, the intestines kind of even resemble the brain. 95% of serotonin is made in the gut, 50% of dopamine is made in the gut, stored in the gut. Researchers call it the second brain for a reason because of this.”
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“Sort of philosophical, chemical imbalance, if you will, which is in now it's coming out. It's flimsy science at best anyways, that we have to realize that mental health is physical health and our brain is a part of our body just like anything else. So it's really in a part feelings as a conversation around what's known in the research as the cytokine model of cognitive function. So it's research looking at how does inflammation impact how my brain works? How does inflammation impact mental health? So things like anxiety, depression, brain fog fatigue, how this inflammatory component, but then the question is, what I really talk about in the book is what's driving the inflammation? Because inflammation is a normal part of the immune system. But what's triggering this chronic inflammation, that's sort of this forest fire that's burning in perpetuity, that's the problem of what's triggering people's mental health issues just like it's triggering.”
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“And again, this both and approach that I think is needed to have sustainable healing in people's lives, whether they're going through anxiety and depression, brain fog or fatigue, or they're going through an autoimmune condition or a different inflammatory problem, you have to deal with this both physical and mental emotional, spiritual. And I love the fact that I think in our culture in the past years we've made great strides to normalize mental health care and destigmatize people getting access to mental health care. Wonderful. I just feel like it's in many ways, this is sort of the next stage in that conversation because I think in many ways it's an incomplete conversation around mental health care because in the West, we still like to separate mental health from physical health. It's a mental health problem. We sort of relegate it as sort of this abstract.”
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“Like any, this is my fourth book, and as with anything that I've written, it's really borne out of my passion for my patience and just seeing things play out. And I think in many ways my patients are kind of like, you know, that saying canaries in the coal mine. I think they're canaries in the coal mine for the rest of the world, because they tend to be further down that autoimmune inflammation spectrum. They're struggling with different inflammatory problems, but then I look at the statistics and I realize it's just, they're the tip of the iceberg of really what's going on. So gut feelings is really a conversation around mental health and autoimmunity and people's, I would say, diet culture as a whole. And talking about this sort of duality within wellness, both gut and feelings, the physiological and the psychological, the physical and the mental emotional spiritual.”
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“How it impacted the quality of life. And health and life on Earth, I think in many ways, is just so fragile. And we take things for granted so much until it's not there. And I'm reminded on an hourly basis with my patients now too. It's just a sacred thing that I want to do everything I can to help them regain it.”
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“Well, I mean, I could go to both sides of my family, really. There's different neurological autoimmune issues like MS type symptoms, if you know anything about that, type 1 diabetes on both sides of the family with the immune system attacks the pancreas and then the body cannot produce insulin, so you have to take insulin to manage your blood sugar. People have autoimmune thyroid issues, Hashimotus diseases really are one of our top patient base today is people that have autoimmune thyroid issues, and different and other inflammatory problems, so how it impacted me, I think, was just seeing.”
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“A piece to your puzzle, but ultimately it is not the totality of what's going on here, and we have to look at, in my opinion, a both and not an either or sort of reductive tribal approach. And that's where I think functional medicine attempts to bring things together, where it's not us versus them. It's, well, what is the most effective tools within this person's toolbox and medications may be part of it, but there are oftentimes a lot more effective, a lot less side effects tools than that tool block within that toolbox.”
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“Study in a medical journal and showed that in this one group that the average conventional doctor would fail a basic nutrition test because of the training that's not there, and any conventional doctor will tell you, and actually most of my colleagues in functional medicine are conventionally trained, and they will tell you they have to go to postdoctorate training to even learn about nutrition. And I find that to be problematic because we're dealing with the vast majority of health problems that people are seeing are lifestyle driven, meaning that the foods we eat or not eating are stress levels, our sleep, our exposure to toxins, these epigenetic lifestyle things are really what's fueling what is plaguing our society and what the major endocrinologists, PCP, GP are seeing on their day-to-day visits. So I would say the approach is different because there's a place for medication. Again, I mentioned that sort of litmus test of maybe.”
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“Well, I think the diagnostic aspect is one of them because they're trained in the standard model of care to diagnose a disease and match it with the medication. So that sort of medicinal matching game, if you will, is a major part of the conventional model of care. And I think a nutrition forward approach”
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“Many times, but ultimately we ask the question, what is your most effective option that causes you the least amount of side effects? And for some people, medications fit that criteria and they need to be on it. But oftentimes medications really don't fit that criteria, yet it's the only option given to them. And there's a root upstream causation as to why they have to be on that disease-modifying medication in the first place. So we're looking at things like underlying gut problems, chronic infections, nutrient deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, or things like trauma and shame, the things that I'm talking about my latest book. And ultimately it's predicated on bio-individuality. We're all different. And even good things, even healthy things that's relevant, that's pertinent for one person may not be relevant for you. And even healthy foods, what works for one person may not work for you. So it's really curated, customized, evidence-based.”
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“What they're unintentionally telling the patient is they're a lot like the other people with health problems that they are being compared to. Just because something's common doesn't necessarily mean it's normal. Comparing yourself to people with health problems is no way for you to find out how you can feel at your best and why you feel the way that you do. So in functional medicine, we're looking at optimal, not average. So the Cleveland Clinic here in the United States has a functional medicine center many mainstream institutions have functional medicine and integrative medicine institutions. And all of us in functional medicine are trained through what's called the Institute for Functional Medicine. So we're looking at optimal. Now, average, we're running more comprehensive labs to get to the root cause. Because ultimately speaking, none of us are sick from pharmaceutical deficiency. You know, kind of like pharmaceutical your way into health one day. They are disease managing medications and are needed.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if I had to break it down, the differences between conventional medicine and functional medicine, mainstream medicine and functional medicine, first thing is we interpret labs using a thinner reference range. If you know you get your lab and you have your number and you have this X to Y interval, this reference range that your GP or PCP is comparing you to. We get that reference range largely from a statistical bell curve average of people who go to that lab. It's non-standardized for the most part. People that are predominantly going to labs are people sadly going through health problems. So a lot of people know intuitively something's off here. My fatigue, my brain fog, my digestive issue, my hair loss, whatever it is. They go to the doctor and the doctor runs the basic labs and they say, look, the labs pretty much look normal. You're just depressed. You're stressed out.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Somewhere on this autoimmune inflammation spectrum where they're labeled with things like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. And they may not even be diagnosable, but they are feeling that sort of anxiety and fatigue and brain fog and digestive problems and different iterations of inflammation. So if you know anything, I guess to answer your question pointedly, annihram, if you know anything about that sort of personality study, I'm an Enneagram five, which means I'm a researcher. So I'm sort of this voracious, like, let's figure this out and get to the root cause of why you're struggling. So that's why I do what I do.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In me being interested in that food and nutrition to want to be formally trained. And I have a family history of autoimmune conditions. And I just have a passion to figure out these complex puzzles. And it's a sacred responsibility for me to then take my own passion. And how can I problem solve for these people and hold space for them? Because I see in the topic of autoimmunity specifically, it's a vast, in many ways a silent epidemic of people that are struggling. There's so much medical gaslighting going on. They're told, they're just depressed, given antidepressants, they're told they are just stressed out. But the research speaks for itself, the statistics speak for itself that we have in the United States alone about 50 million Americans having an autoimmune condition, but millions more.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've always been a health nerd, I guess you could call it, and in hindsight I now look back and think of how what a weird kid I was. My first job was at the finish line, but I don't know if you have those in the UK, but basically tennis shoes like sneaker stores. And I would use my paycheck at 16 years old to go to the health food store and buy the latest superfood that I'd see research on, the latest supplement. And that was always fascinating to me. How could you optimize your health using natural things, using things that are of the planet and food to feel great? And needless to say, I was packing my lunch in the brown bags with the peppers and bananas and these whole grain and the crunchy things in the 90s. And my friends weren't doing that. So that evolved.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As trauma can be inherited, so can healing. Those three main things. First thing is, number two, the third would be... Thanks for having me”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The differences between mainstream medicine and functional medicine is they are trained to diagnose a disease and match it with the medication. But I think a nutrition forward approach to healthcare is vastly important. Because the vast majority of health problems are lifestyle driven, foods we eat, exposure to toxins, these lifestyle things are really what's plaguing our society 60 to 80% of all Western countries are dealing with some massive metabolic issues in part fed by chronic stress, part of our trauma in our life has to do with the trauma that our ancestors have gone through. It sounds science fiction, but looking at how trauma is literally stored in the cells and then passed through family lines is very much science.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So much medical gaslighting going on, average conventional doctor would fail a basic nutrition test. And I find that to be problematic because you have the worst healthcare system yet you're criticizing people that are trying to do something different.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you care about mental health, care about your weight and your energy levels, you have to care about the because if it's not healthy, you're not healthy.”
2023-03-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: The 4 Foods You MUST Avoid If You Want To Be Healthy! - Dr. Will Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT