Functional Medicine Is the Cake: Longevity Labs, HRT, Peptides, DEXA Scans & What Actually Is Worth Your Money | Dr. Robin Berzin
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robin Berzin, founder and CEO of Parsley Health, joins Dr. Will Cole live at Eudemonia for a wide-ranging conversation between two of functional medicine's most prominent voices. They cover the state of functional medicine and where the longevity trend gets it right - and wrong - the lab tests Parsley has used for a decade across 50,000 patients, why DEXA scans should start at 35 (not 65), the HRT revolution following the FDA's removal of the black box warning, what to do about elevated Lp(a), and how to use AI for your health without being led astray. Plus live audience Q&A on osteopenia, intermittent fasting, and the MAHA movement. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Will Cole. |
| 0:09.1 | Wellness is a sacred art, and you are the masterpiece. |
| 0:13.7 | This is the art of being well. |
| 0:29.6 | Guys, I'm so punk that probiotic trillion is finally out in the world. |
| 0:33.4 | It took us a long time to get it right. |
| 0:36.1 | And it is amazing. The results that I'm seeing with our |
| 0:39.1 | telehealth patients unrivaled. It's the first ever sort of combination of the whole life cycle |
| 0:45.8 | of the microbiome. So most of you know, but for those that don't know, we have upwards, |
| 0:50.5 | depending on the study that you cite, upwards of 100 trillion bacteria, we have |
| 0:55.1 | about 30 trillion human cells. So we are exponentially more bacteria than human. Everybody |
| 1:00.5 | knows about probiotics or good bacteria, right? But it's not enough to really get all the |
| 1:05.4 | amazing benefits because your microbiome is so much more than just probiotics. So we want to get prebiotics, probiotics. |
| 1:13.7 | The prebiotics are the food for the probiotics. |
| 1:16.1 | Probiotics are the good bacteria. |
| 1:17.5 | It regulates the immune system. |
| 1:18.9 | It's 75% of your immune system. |
| 1:21.0 | It influences your hormones, your neurotransmitters, your mental health, your guts, |
| 1:25.3 | your second brain impacts inflammation levels, so many different |
| 1:28.2 | things, detoxification pathways. And then something called paribiotics, or what researchers |
| 1:33.7 | call ghost probiotics. They're basically dead probiotics that work uniquely different than |
| 1:40.3 | probiotics and work synergistically with probiotics. So again, probiotics, parbiotics, or the ghost probiotics. |
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