The Real Drivers of Inflammation, Autoimmunity & Healing | Gary Brecka, Dr. Tara Swart & Devi Brown
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this special panel conversation from The Wellness Oasis, Dr. Will Cole joins human biologist Gary Brecka, neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart Bieber and leading wellness expert Devi Brown to explore what it truly means to achieve whole health. They dive into the overlooked role of sleep, chronic stress, emotional health, and the gut-brain connection in longevity, inflammation, and healing. This conversation bridges functional medicine, neuroscience, and biology to challenge the obsession with perfection and highlight the foundations that actually help people thrive. 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. |
| 0:16.5 | Thank you. What's up and welcome to the art of being well. |
| 0:31.6 | Most of you guys know this, but if you don't know, |
| 0:33.4 | basic labs are just scratching the surface. |
| 0:35.1 | The reference range that you all get anybody, any one of us that gets conventional standard labs from our doctor, it's based on a statistical bell curve average of who, the people that go to that lab. |
| 0:47.4 | Who are the people that are predominantly going to labs or people that aren't necessarily living and thriving health? |
| 0:52.9 | It's skewed towards average. |
| 0:55.0 | And in functional medicine, we're looking at optimal and not average. |
| 0:58.4 | Where's optimal, vibrant wellness reside? |
| 1:01.6 | Where does longevity and you feeling and looking your best reside? |
| 1:05.8 | That's a tighter interval of numbers within that larger reference range of where optimal health lives. That's the |
| 1:13.1 | functional range or where your body is functioning the best. That's where we get our name |
| 1:17.0 | in functional medicine. So we're looking at optimal not average. And then we're also running more |
| 1:21.2 | comprehensive labs like underlying gut problems, expanded hormonal tests, nutrient deficiencies, environmental toxins, biotoxins like bacteria, |
| 1:31.5 | virus, mold, parasites, and even looking at things that can't directly be measured, |
| 1:36.0 | like chronic stress and unresolved past trauma stored in the body, but it's showing up on the |
| 1:41.0 | labs to really applying the research around stress and trauma and how that can |
| 1:44.8 | disregulate the nervous system, inflammation levels, and our hormones. Anyways, we're looking at |
| 1:50.1 | these root pieces of the puzzle. They are superfluous to mainstream medicine. That is trained. |
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