Fix Your Gut Health! The 4 Foods Fueling Inflammation & Disease! - Dr Will Cole

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. Dr. Will Cole. Bestselling author. One of the top 50 functional medicine practitioners.

And is a health expert for the world's largest wellness brands, such as goop.

There's so much medical gaslighting going on. Your average conventional doctor would fail a basic nutrition test, and I find that to be problematic because you have the worst healthcare system, and yet you're criticizing people that are trying to do something different.

You define yourself as a functional medicine doctor.

The differences between mainstream medicine and functional medicine is they're trained to diagnose a disease and match it with a medication. But I think a nutrition-forward approach to healthcare is vastly important.

Why?

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.

Are you optimistic that there's things we can do to change it?

As trauma can be inherited, so can healing. There's three main things. First thing is ... Number two ... The third would be ...

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My friend.

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Th- thanks for having me.

I'm gonna start this, um, conversation where I started it quite recently when I spoke to Max, who I think you, you, you're familiar with, um, which is, what do you do and why do you do it?