The Truth About Milk: Dairy Myths, A2 Protein & The War on Real Food | Jeff Mroz, Pioneer Pastures

The Art of Being Well

Dear Media, Will Cole

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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode of The Art of Being Well, Dr. Will Cole sits down with Jeff Mroz, former NFL player and founder of Pioneer Pastures, to unpack one of the most misunderstood foods in modern nutrition - milk. Jeff shares how his experience as a professional athlete led him to discover the truth about dairy, gut health, and why so many people who think they’re “lactose intolerant” actually aren’t. Together, they explore the science behind A2 protein, how industrial farming changed the structure of milk, and why returning to ancestral dairy may be one of the most powerful steps for healing. They also dive into the war on saturated fat, the myths around plant milks, and how regenerative farming can support both human and planetary health. 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. Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole. This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. This is the art of being well.
0:28.4	What's up and welcome to the art of being well?
0:34.7	Basic labs can miss a lot when it comes to figuring out how you can fill your best, guys.
0:44.5	And if you've listened to the podcast for any amount of time, you know things like underlying gut problems, hormonal imbalances, stealth infections, things like bacterial, viral, mold, parasite issues, environmental toxins like forever chemicals, PIFs,
0:52.0	microplastics, heavy metals, oricides, pesticides, and even mental emotional things
0:57.4	like chronic stress and resolve trauma and how that impacts the body and can dysregulate
1:03.3	the neuroimmune endocrine axis, the intersection between the nervous system, the immune system,
1:08.2	in the form of inflammation, our hormones or endocrine
1:11.4	system anyways.
1:12.4	The conventional medicine model is largely, when it comes to health optimization, feeling
1:17.4	your best, thriving, health span, longevity, it is not designed for that.
1:22.1	It's designed for disease management largely.
1:24.9	It's diagnosed a disease and match it with the corresponding pharmaceutical,
1:28.4	and a lot of people fall through the cracks of that model. It serves some people. There's a time
1:32.7	in place for that, obviously, but many people are struggling. They know intuitively something's off
1:38.3	here. They are medically gaslit. Then they end up gaslighting themselves. Oh, it's okay. And
1:44.1	they're just hopped up on sugar and caffeine
1:46.3	just to get through the day.
1:48.2	A functional medicine perspective really gives insight into the pieces
1:52.2	from an objective data-driven, evidence-based perspective,
1:55.8	what are the pieces to your health puzzle?
1:58.0	So if you want to learn more about a functional medicine perspective, how we
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