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Hi, I'm Dr. Will Cole,

leading functional medicine expert and best-selling author.

This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. This is the art of

being well. I am so excited. Today is the first

ever episode. So today I'm going to be going over the ethos behind the show, behind the art of being well.

Why it's called that, what you can expect from the show, who the heck am I,

I'm going to go over it all, my friend.

So let's start with who the heck am I.

I am a functional medicine practitioner,

and we'll go over today what functional medicine is, what that entails, because it'll really give you a

context to my perspective. Anyways, my day job is I consult people all around the world. I started actually one of the first functional medicine telehealth centers in the world.

Over 12 years I've been consulting people via webcam. So from 8 a to 6 p.m. that's my heart and my passion

is we drop ship labs to them and we're providing them a functional medicine perspective on their

case. We do a lot with people with

auto immunity and that will be a whole other separate episode but there's a lot of

different autoimmune issues that can look different for different people but the

most common autoimmune

issues are people with autoimmune thyroid issues

or Hashimoto's disease or Graves' disease.

People with autoimmune digestive issues

like all sort of kaleidous, crones, celiac disease,

...