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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.

Thank you. the art of being well. What's up and welcome to the art of being well?

Basic labs miss so much when it comes to people's health, right?

The underlying environmental toxins like herbicides, pesticides, forever chemicals,

microplastics, to hormonal imbalances, biotoxins like mold bacteria, viruses.

I mean, how many people are struggling with these being a piece of the puzzle of why they

have things like autoimmune problems and hormonal imbalances

or things like brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. The training in the standard

model of care in the conventional world is typically to diagnose the disease and match it with

a corresponding medication. So the labs they are running are wholly adequate if that's what you're doing.

If that's sort of the sort of medicinal matching game, it's appropriate because they need to

give you the basic labs to prescribe the appropriate medication. But it's wholly incomplete to

understand why you have the problem in the first place, which rarely is it because of a

medication deficiency. So we're just asking different questions. And when you ask different questions,

you need to figure out the answer. And our job in functional medicine is to figure out why do you

have the problem in the first place, looking at

these facets that are what science shows is to be the contributing factors and the causes to

chronic health problems, mental health issues, hormonal problems, things like fertility as well.

So if you want to learn more about a functional medicine perspective on you feeling your best and how we're looking

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