Heavily Meditated: Biohacking the Nervous System & Consciousness | Dave Asprey
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode, Dr. Will Cole sits down with biohacking pioneer Dave Asprey to explore meditation, mitochondria, AI-driven fitness, and nervous system health. Dave shares why his book Heavily Meditated is his most important work yet, how recovery matters more than overtraining, and why meditation is about learning to control your internal state. They also discuss how mitochondria influence emotions and perception, the future of exercise, and what it really means to optimize human performance. 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. |
| 0:06.7 | Hi, I'm Dr. Will Cole. |
| 0:09.7 | Wellness is a sacred art, and you are the masterpiece. |
| 0:14.3 | This is the art of being well. |
| 0:32.0 | I hope you're having a great day, my friends. |
| 0:33.9 | So if you don't know, I am passionate about figuring out what are the pieces to people's health |
| 0:39.4 | puzzle? It is a eternal passion of mine. You think 16 years in I'd get tired of it. It is a sacred |
| 0:47.1 | responsibility for me. Why are people not thriving? Why are they kept back from living the life |
| 0:52.5 | that God created them to live? |
| 0:54.7 | And it shows up in different ways for different people, things like brain fog, fatigue, digestive problems, autoimmune problems, metabolic issues, hormone problems, fertility issues. |
| 1:05.2 | And certainly the pieces of the puzzle are multifactorial and bio-individual, different things for different people, |
| 1:11.3 | but looking at things like underlying gut problems, microbiome issues, environmental toxins, |
| 1:15.8 | which common, not normal, things like herbicides, pesticides, heavy metals, forever chemicals, |
| 1:20.5 | microplastics, even biotoxins like bacteria, virus, mold, parasites, and nutrient deficiencies. |
| 1:27.4 | And then even exploring the science around how things like chronic stress and unresolved emotional |
| 1:32.3 | trauma, how those things are stored in the body and can dysregulate the body as well. |
| 1:36.3 | Dealing with both the physiological and the psychological, the physical and the mental, emotional, |
| 1:41.3 | spiritual, and how that shows up on labs and how that shows up in people's lives. |
| 1:46.9 | That's what I'm passionate about, guys. |
| 1:48.1 | And the podcast is an outpouring cascade ripple effect |
| 1:52.3 | of our work with our telehealth patients. |
| 1:55.8 | So if you want to learn more about a functional medicine perspective |
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