172: Dr. Will Cole - Addressing Shameflammation and Stored Trauma to Optimize Health

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine expert and best-selling author, discusses a term he came up with, shameflammation, and dives into what that is and why it could be an underlying health issue for many people, including healthy patients.

Dr. Cole also addresses the connection between mental and physical health, stored traumas, the difference between shame and guilt, and more in this episode.

You’ll also hear about the free interventions Dr. Cole recommends using to address these issues and more about his latest book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel.

Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional medicine expert who has been in practice for over 13 years.

He uses telehealth practices to help patients all over the world.

Dr. Cole has also written four books, hosts a podcast called The Art of Being Well, and has been recognized as one of the top 50 functional and integrative doctors nationwide.

In this episode, you’ll hear more about:

Understanding the connection between mental and physical health
Dr. Will Cole’s term “shameflammation” and how shame impacts our health
The difference between experiencing shame versus guilt
Where does shameflammation come from?
How stress and trauma are stored in the body and what can be done about it
Interventions to improve both physical and mental health and resolve shameflammation
Why aren’t these free interventions being prescribed by traditional doctors? Is it because there’s no money to be made from them?
How healthy habits could be making your health worse and what you can do to fix this
What Dr. Cole’s personal journey looks like
Working to address intergenerational trauma
Dr. Cole’s experience with psychedelics for treating trauma and other alternative treatment options
Information on his latest book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Will Cole’s website
Dr. Cole’s Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel
Dr. Cole’s latest book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Realms of Human Consciousness: Observations from LSD Research, by Stanislav Grof

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is
0:10.2	my belief that the natural state of penny living organisms' health and that our artificial
0:14.5	habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to
0:18.7	dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help
0:23.8	you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive
0:27.8	in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find
0:31.3	out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guston.com. Thank you for tuning in to another
0:37.2	episode of the Natural State podcast. Today, my guest is Dr. Wilcole, good friend of mine
0:42.8	and I mentioned in the beginning of the podcast. I think he's actually the number one frequent
0:47.1	to guest on this podcast. So I wanted to have him back again because he has a wealth
0:50.8	of knowledge and he has written his fourth book and I think it is many years it seems like
0:55.9	but this time he dives in and keeps evolving his point of view on why people are unhealthy
1:01.6	and what you should do about it, which is kind of the path that I've taken as well. So
1:04.9	it's always interesting to see other people pulling on threads and seeing what they find.
1:08.4	And a lot of what Dr. Cole is now researching is how emotions, feelings, etc. shame in
1:15.5	particular lead to inflammation and chronic disease. He's worked with thousands of patients
1:20.6	and with I think it's about like 30% of them, he just realized that something was not
1:23.9	clicking and started working with what, you know, a lot of people would call woo woo
1:28.6	stuff or things that maybe weren't as elucidated in the scientific research from the past.
1:34.8	But he has now really mastered his approach to bringing together a lot of the psycho social
1:40.3	somatic, etc. components to health and gives it a bit of a framework of how to know if
1:47.5	you are struggling with the same thing, how to diagnose it and how to intervene. So tune
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