The IVF Racket, Silent Endometriosis & NAPRO Technology: What the Fertility Industry Isn't Telling You | Illie Balaj
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Illie Balaj - founder of Healthillie and one of the most relatable voices in the wellness space - joins Dr. Will Cole for a conversation that covers everything from the Kellogg's artificial dye protest to two years of navigating an unexplained fertility journey. They talk about the tribal pushback that followed the food dye movement, why the dietary guidelines function more as a lobbying tool than a public health document, the SNAP junk food debate, and how to stay grounded on the biohacking spectrum without going neurotic. Illie also shares her experience with the conventional IVF model, how she found a NAPRO technology doctor who actually looked at her labs, why silent endometriosis may be behind far more fertility struggles than anyone is talking about, and the tools - neurofeedback, adrenal cocktails, homeopathy - that have made this season manageable. 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. |
| 0:06.1 | 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. |
| 0:30.6 | My passion is to democratize functional medicine, wellness, nutrition, biohacking, |
| 0:36.5 | all the stuff that I see work for our telehealth |
| 0:38.9 | patients to level up their health, to take their health to the next level. And that's the intention |
| 0:43.6 | behind the podcast. I see what works, what doesn't to improve people's lives, how they feel, |
| 0:49.6 | see what improves their labs. And I want to impart that information through these conversations that we |
| 0:55.6 | have on the podcast. Also, all the information that I put on Dr. Willcold.com, I see it as sort of |
| 1:02.1 | a companion to the podcast, sort of an expansion, a continuing conversation, if you will, |
| 1:08.3 | to the topics that we talk about on the pod. So some of the more |
| 1:12.4 | recent articles that I wrote, one about cellular health and why strong cells are the key to optimal |
| 1:17.2 | health and exactly how to improve them. And the science around cellular longevity, another article |
| 1:22.5 | about the best food medicines, the best supplements for fatty liver disease and natural strategies |
| 1:27.1 | to heal. Another article about the best skin for fatty liver disease and natural strategies to heal. |
| 1:28.3 | Another article about the best skin supporting peptides for barrier, skin barrier, repair, |
| 1:34.3 | inflammation, cellular renewal, metophagy and autophagy pathways. |
| 1:40.0 | And there's articles about trauma healing and nervous system regulation, about hormone health and |
| 1:44.4 | fertility. |
| 1:45.4 | So this is my public service announcement, guys, for you all to check out the information that we |
| 1:50.4 | have at Dr.willcold.com. |
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