478: Are you metabolizing your trauma? | Functional medicine expert Will Cole, D.C.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“What are the pieces to your health puzzle? It's going to be different for everybody," says Will Cole, D.C. Will, a leading functional medicine expert and New York Times bestselling author, joins us to discuss how important your thoughts and feelings are for your overall health, plus: - Will’s motivation behind his newest book (~00:16) - How your emotional health impacts your physical health (~02:02) - How unresolved trauma manifests as health issues (~04:57) - How to acknowledge & heal your trauma (~07:32) - How to know if you have shameflammation (~08:31) - How to navigate anxiety around your health (~11:52) - How people worry themselves sick (~17:33) - How to recognize generational trauma (~20:20) - The power of breathwork for your health (~21:59) - How to do a social network cleanse & why you should (~24:58) - Why you shouldn’t internalize everything you see on social media (~26:15) - The best low-cost wellness hacks (~34:52) - How to balance mind, body & environmental health (~38:59) - How to metabolize past trauma (~44:41) - Will’s top gut-friendly foods (~49:41) - The future of mental health care (~53:50) Order a copy of my new book The Joy Of Well-Being at thejoyofwellbeing.com! Referenced in the episode: - Will's new book, Gut Feelings. - Check out Will's podcast. - mbg Podcast episodes #284, #148, and #68, with Will. - A study on the nocebo effect. - A study on how shame impacts your health. - A study on nature photos' calming effects. - An article on anger & virality. - Sign up for The Long Game. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:30.0	Harry? Listen to Harry and make your best bet up bet Victor. 18 plus, please gamble responsibly.
0:37.2	Hey everyone, we talk a lot about the MyBuddy connection here at MBG. But in this episode,
0:43.2	you'll see just how important our thoughts and feelings are for our overall health.
0:49.8	Today we have Dr. Will Cole back on the show and Will says that anxiety, shame and trauma can
0:55.2	causes much inflammation as a diet full of ultra-process foods. Look, if you eat well and exercise
1:02.0	regularly, yet still don't feel 100% trust me, this episode is for you. You'll learn about the
1:08.5	sneaky causes of inflammation and how to reduce it in your everyday life with actionable tips and
1:14.4	low-cost wellness hacks. If you feel like you've hit a wellness plateau lately, this episode should
1:20.2	help you cross the finish line. Will, welcome back. Great to see you. Nice to see you, my friend.
1:26.1	It takes a podcast sometimes for us to catch up, but I'm thankful for it. Well, it does take a
1:31.1	podcast sometimes to catch up unfortunately, but I hope to see you in Miami soon. Congratulations,
1:38.4	gut feelings. Love the title. Love the message. I'm curious. What was the why for you behind this book?
1:46.4	As all with any of the books, this is the fourth one. They're born out of just countless
1:51.6	conversations that I have with patients. When you hear things and enough questions being asked
1:57.8	and you realize there's this palpable need for answers to be put out into the world.
2:05.9	Four questions that are not always easy. As you know, my day job, my focus is running the
2:11.2	Telehealth Center and really dealing with complex health issues that are not linear. They're not
2:17.1	simple. They're not cut and dried. There's a lot of new lines and context to these complex health
2:22.0	issues like autoimmune problems, hormonal problems, and things like anxiety, depression, brain fog,
2:28.4	and fatigue. That's where the book really came from. I would say each book I've had micro conversations
2:36.3	about the topics like with the book prior. So like with intuitive fasting, I talked about these
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