Your Breakouts Are Trying to Tell You Something: The Shocking Causes of Acne Your Dermatologist Is Missing | Sisley Fraser
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Sisley Fraser - holistic nutritionist, and one of the leading voices in functional skin health - joins Dr. Will Cole for a comprehensive, root-cause conversation on what acne is actually communicating and what to do about it. They cover the gut-skin axis, TCM face mapping, how acne timing in the menstrual cycle points to specific hormonal imbalances, the A1 vs. A2 dairy debate, phytoestrogenic foods as gentle estrogen modulators, xenoestrogens and the toxic bucket, why most people's skincare routines are making their acne worse, and the case for going pro-fruit. Sisley also shares her minimalist skincare protocol - including Manuka honey as a morning mask - and why the conventional "avoid all dairy, restrict everything" approach is creating more problems than it solves. 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. |
| 0:06.0 | 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. |
| 0:31.9 | My friends, there is so much stuff that I put on Dr.gol.comcom for you all that listen to the podcast because my goal |
| 0:39.1 | with the podcast is to make nutrition, wellness, health optimization, functional medicine, |
| 0:43.9 | accessible. Obviously, it's free for you all. And I pour all the stuff that I've seen work for |
| 0:48.8 | our telehealth patients around the world on the podcast for you guys to have agency on your health and be empowered to be |
| 0:55.4 | lifted up to be encouraged to live the life that God created you for. And I put free stuff on |
| 1:02.5 | Dr. Wilcold.com. I write an article once a week, sometimes more than that. Lots of free protocols, |
| 1:08.7 | articles, tips, tricks, all hyperlinked to the scientific literature |
| 1:12.5 | as far as the journals are concerned if you're interested in sort of the context and science |
| 1:16.7 | behind it. But I want to make it accessible. I want to make it exciting, encouraging. That's what |
| 1:20.9 | health should be. And when it isn't, when we've sort of lost the plot and become obsessive |
| 1:26.5 | and orthorexic and it's shame and dread and |
| 1:29.1 | negative or it's just sort of hyper you know it's sterile right i don't want i don't think health |
| 1:35.1 | i don't think living a life that's filled with vibrant wellness is boring so that's the intention |
| 1:41.1 | behind the podcast but also the intention behind everything that I put on Dr. |
| 1:45.5 | Willcold.com. You can take quizzes that I adapted from questions that I ask new telehealth patients on their telehealth consult. |
| 1:52.4 | What else? There's video classes. There's lots of stuff at, on the shop at Dr. Willcold.com as well. |
| 1:59.0 | So check it out after today's episode. That's D-R-W-I-L-C-O-L-E.com. Oh, and on the shop, |
| 2:07.4 | as a listener of the podcast, you can use code A-O-B-W for a special discount for the |
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