Dr. Will Cole

So in functional medicine, we have to have a both and not either or approach to dealing with the physical, but then dealing with the mental, emotional, spiritual and the interconnection between both.

The research is clear.

Things like shame and stress, they raise inflammation just as much as a food that doesn't love the human body back.

What extends life is the absence of processed foods.

Yeah, so I also love that we talked about the COMT gene variant at 10 a.m.

in the morning.

It's a great way to start the day.

Thanks, Gary.

So you're right.

I love data, and a lot of my job is looking at labs and getting those labs improved.

But more hyper-focused on these things, I think the context and the intention around all of this stuff matters.

Now, look, there's a lot of bio-individuality to how we even receive information.

For some people, the biohacker, that sort of type A, they have a big vessel to receive a lot of information and it doesn't stress them out.

it invigorates them, they come alive with that information.

Some people, you get that information, even just basic labs, it really does keep them up at night.

There's a lot of rumination, there's a lot of shame and obsession, and it can become, there's a term for this, orthorexia, it's disordered eating around healthy foods, but there's a larger, I think, orthorexic spectrum that happens within the wellness world, where it's just data, it's like obsession about data, and they're consuming data and information.

And stressing about healthy things isn't good for our health.

So if you've learned nothing else today, it's that.

And it's just having discernment and knowing when it's OK to put your phone away, it's OK to not consume more stuff, and just keeping it simple.

So part of my job, I guess, is finding out their why, and then how do they receive information, and then making this fun.