Dr. Will Cole

We've lost the plot if it's a source of dread and obsession.

So that's not an easy answer to that question, but it's just, I guess on an individual level, checking yourself and seeing is this healthy stuff creating an unhealthy obsession?

And I think at that point, less is more in the profound ways, because I see people do all the things in the health that we do,

but they're completely, they're filled with a lot of obsession and negativity and it's impacting their labs.

So we have to realize that what we eat matters, what the supplements and peptides we do matters, but what are we feeding our head and our heart on a daily basis?

That's more nebulous, that's more abstract, but it's something that we need to find out for ourselves what that looks like and having discernment.

It's a concept.

I made up a word called shameflammation.

I just make up words all day long.

But how do things like shame and things that cause shame, like chronic stress and then result trauma, when you're not showing up as the best version of yourself, you're snapping, you're...

eating foods that don't love you back, and you're dysregulated, like Gary was saying.

There's these core dysregulations.

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, the bidirectional communication between both.

So kind of part two of the first question that I gave was,

of looking at things like underlying gut problems, looking at things like nutrient deficiencies and these things that Gary was talking about, these biotoxin, bacterial virus mold, environmental toxins, all of that matters, right?

I mean, you cannot meditate or breath work your way out of these things that are on a physiological level, right?

but it's just one side of the coin.

And we have to look at those mental, emotional, spiritual things and metabolize stored trauma just as much as we would an environmental toxin.

But it's a lot more, again, nonlinear abstract, because it's more straightforward and prescriptive for me to say,

eat these foods, don't eat these foods, take these supplements, do this peptide protocol to deal with the physiological.