Why Breathwork Isn't Always Safe For Nervous System Regulation & What To Do Instead | Jessica Maguire
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Maguire - physiotherapist, nervous system researcher, and founder of Repairing the Nervous System - joins Dr. Will Cole for one of the most scientifically rich conversations the podcast has had on trauma, regulation, and healing. They cover the eight sensory systems, the overlooked science of interoception, why IBS has been reclassified as a gut-brain disorder, the freeze and collapse response, and why breathwork can actually dysregulate people who aren't ready for it. Jessica also shares her personal loss and the research journey it set in motion, and gives practical in-the-moment tools for nervous system repair grounded in neuroplasticity principles. 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? |
| 0:28.6 | Guys, my thoughts on most of the longevity space, longevity things for you to, you know, try or buy or do. |
| 0:39.7 | You know, some of it's great based on science, things that I've seen move the needle |
| 0:43.8 | for our telehealth patients as far as their labs and their lives are concerned, how they |
| 0:47.6 | feel. |
| 0:48.4 | And then some are really just hyperbole. |
| 0:50.6 | It's just like hyperbolic, oversensationalized waste of your time and money. Similar to even |
| 0:56.0 | like protein, like anything that's longevity or protein, these sort of trends, they come and go. |
| 1:02.0 | The truth is somewhere in the middle. What's the context? What's going to actually improve your |
| 1:06.7 | life and how you feel? And as far as longevity, this promise for something in the future, |
| 1:13.4 | okay, there's exciting research around health span and improving health span and living a longer, |
| 1:18.1 | healthier, thriving life. I love that, right? But if something improves your life in the future, |
| 1:24.3 | it should also impact how you feel right now. Or said another way, let's add |
| 1:30.2 | life to your years, not just years to your life. It should be both and not either or here. And that's |
| 1:36.2 | why I've been working on for the past few years and it's finally out into the world, |
| 1:39.8 | Longevity RX. It's a targeted protocol line that's designed to support these hallmarks of aging that research |
| 1:47.3 | shows is the cause of why we have poor health span and we have chronic disease, we have brain |
| 1:52.7 | fog of fatigue, and we're not thriving. Things like mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, |
| 1:58.1 | these zombie cells, these that are impervious to apoptosis, cell death, |
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