Your State of Mind Is Likely Hurting Your Gut & Digestion More Than What You Are or Are Not Eating w/ Functional Medicine Expert Will Cole

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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First, I’m surely not saying that what you are or are not eating doesn’t matter. But after a decade of my own involvement in functional medicine, I see the biggest culprit for gut and digestion issues to be our minds more than anything else. I continue to meet people who are doing “all the right things,” eating clean, taking all the great supplements, exercising, getting good sleep, and they are still dealing with gut and digestive discomfort. I was the same. And I don’t have a magic solution like meditating or something for the mind. But I’m concerned that the normal lifestyle of busyness and fast paced and constant stimulation is going to overpower all your other efforts. So a few years ago I sat down with Dr Will Cole. I became aware of Dr Cole through Gwyneth Paltrow, as he is her functional medicine doctor and one of the providers in her Goop wellness and lifestyle brand and company. Will has admittedly become the health and wellness resource for a lot of influential people and if you visit his IG page with over 800k followers you’ll see many people you recognize. Will has a book called, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel, and it gets more into the philosophy of our wellness than just clinical, prescriptive aspects. Which to me is the foundation. Your health and wellness will ultimately be a result of your own philosophy on health and wellness. Will actually coined the term, “Shameflammation”, which I encourage you to listen into. I find that shame is a reality with most men, and one they are ignorant of and prone to avoid even looking into. You’re going to hear some paradigm shifting information here on your health and wellness. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. I have conversations with people that help us make better meaning of our lives.
0:06.9	In this episode, your state of mind is likely hurting your gut and digestion more than what you are or are not eating.
0:16.6	At first, I want to say, we're not saying that what you eat doesn't matter.
0:21.1	Of course it does.
0:22.0	But after a decade of my own involvement in functional medicine and with myself, with my kids,
0:28.4	family, I see the biggest culprit, or at least one of the primary culprits for gut and
0:34.2	digestive issues to be our minds as much or more than anything else.
0:39.6	I continue to meet people who are doing, this is the common thing, all the right things,
0:44.1	and they really are.
0:45.6	Again, I've dealt with it myself and I've walked with some of my kids, my adult kids,
0:50.4	doing all the right things, eating clean and taking great supplements and exercising and
0:54.9	gooding good sleep and trying to be restful, meditate, and they're still dealing with gut
1:00.2	and digestive discomfort. And I get it. I don't have a magic solution here like, you know,
1:08.3	again, meditating or something to just calm your mind. I'm concerned.
1:12.5	It's just the normal lifestyle that I have led for the majority of my life till as of late,
1:18.8	of busyness and fast pace and production and achievement and meeting everybody's needs and
1:24.3	the constant stimulation. And it's just overpowering everything else.
1:28.9	So a few years ago, and that's why I'm bringing this discussion back, I sat down with Dr.
1:33.3	Will Cole. I became Dr. Cole through Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress, actually, as he is
1:40.1	her functional medicine doctor and one of the providers in her Goop Wellness and Lifestyle
1:46.0	Brand and Company. I've had a few of her personalities on here. Well, Will has admittedly become a
1:52.7	health and wellness resource for a lot of influential people. If you visit his Instagram page,
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