The Art of Being Well

It's another Ask Me Anything with Dr. Will Cole. This episode: what your "ghost wipe" says about your gut health, a full breakdown of every sugar substitute from stevia to aspartame (and the 2022 study that changed how we think about them), and whether pork is actually safe - or something to avoid on biblical or health grounds. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit http://www.drwillcole.c...

Max Lugavere - New York Times bestselling author of Genius Foods and host of The Genius Life - joins Dr. Will Cole to talk about the diagnosis that changed his life, his mother's battle with Lewy body dementia, and why he made the documentary Little Empty Boxes. They dig into why the amyloid plaque model of Alzheimer's is being challenged, what the science actually says about protein, seed oils, a...

Dr. Will Cole goes solo to dig into the science behind cellular confusion, why your cells forget what they're created to do, and what to do about it. In this deep dive, he breaks down the "Inflammatory Core Four" (sugar, seed oils, grains, and dairy), the concept of xenohormesis, and how fasting and food timing activate autophagy, mitophagy, and your body's own cellular repair pathways. For all li...

Hunter Stoler - the creator behind @healthwithhunter, known for his viral healthy grocery store swaps - joins Dr. Will Cole to talk health food trends, why you don't need to be wealthy to eat well, his favorite budget-friendly swaps, and the Thanksgiving dinner moment that kicked off his 50-pound weight loss. They also dig into GLP-1s, next-gen peptides, and why Hunter dialed his own supplement st...

Tara Hopkins, who leads policy work for Instagram at Meta, joins Dr. Will Cole for a candid conversation about raising teenagers in the social media era. They cover Instagram's Teen Accounts feature — the default restrictions on contact, content, and time — the AI tools Meta uses to detect teens who lie about their age, and the supervision tools available to parents. Tara shares her honest take on...

It's another Ask Me Anything on The Art of Being Well. Dr. Will Cole and the team tackle three listener questions: whether a husband's chronic psoriasis is connected to his job doing concrete work, why a teenager's mom started having panic attacks weeks after starting methylfolate, and their honest take on the viral "poop shoes" trend. Plus, an update on the brand-new book, Heal Your Cells. For al...

Miranda Kerr - model, mother of four, and founder of Kora Organics - returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Will Cole about presence, faith, and the health scare that changed everything. Miranda shares the real story behind her mother's tumor diagnosis and the hidden toxins that sparked her obsession with certified organic beauty, the philosophy of crystals and consciousness woven into every Kora...

Dr. Will Cole joins forces with Dr. Josh Axe and health coach Dylan Gemelli for the first episode of The Round Table - a new collaborative series releasing across all three of their channels. Over two-plus hours, they go deep on cellular health and the Stanford study most doctors haven't caught up to yet, optimal vs. "normal" lab ranges, the future of peptides, the seed oil debate, and why faith b...

Dr. Josh Axe - co-author of Heal Your Cells and one of the most well-known names in natural medicine - joins Dr. Will Cole to share the near-death spinal infection experience that personally validated every protocol in their new book. He walks through the hyperbaric oxygen therapy that helped regenerate bone with no blood supply, the BPC-157 and TB500 peptide stack that created new blood vessels i...

In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Will Cole and his team introduce Heal Your Cells (co-written with Dr. Josh Axe) and the Stanford research behind it, then answer two listener questions: what's driving cold urticaria and hives in a 4-year-old with autism, and what wart-like growths on the knuckles of a 23-year-old are really communicating about immune health. They cover mast cell activation, hi...

Chriselle Lim - fashion and lifestyle content creator, co-founder of PHLUR, and one of the original influencers - joins Dr. Will Cole in Los Angeles for a conversation about the wellness journey that followed 20 years of putting everyone else's content first. She shares the story behind PHLUR's acquisition during her divorce, what inspired Missing Person (the scent with a 250,000-person waitlist b...

In this solo episode, Dr. Will Cole shares what he has never spoken about at length publicly - the loss of his father in a 2023 car accident, the burnout that followed, and how both became the catalyst for his new book Heal Your Cells , co-written with Dr. Josh Axe. He walks through the Stanford research on organ aging, the Nature Medicine study showing millennials are aging faster than any previo...

Tina Chen Craig — co-founder of U Beauty and one of the most joyful people in the wellness and beauty world — returns to The Art of Being Well in person for her first in-studio conversation with Dr. Will Cole. Tina breaks down U Beauty's Siren Capsule Technology (recently peer-reviewed in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology), explains the Four Cs skincare protocol, introduces the brand new Barrier...

Dr. Will Cole and his clinical team go deep on three listener questions: the functional medicine approach to bipolar II depression (including gut health, the COMT gene, mold toxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction, lithium orotate, and saffron), whether masseter Botox for TMJ pain is safe and worth it, and whether the viral social media trend of sticking your tongue out for 40 seconds actually lowers...

Dr. David Perlmutter — neurologist, New York Times bestselling author, and author of the new book Brain Defenders — joins Dr. Will Cole to reveal what he believes is the most important breakthrough in brain health science in decades: the microglial cell. He explains why the amyloid hypothesis that has dominated Alzheimer's research (and pharmaceutical spending) for 30 years has been definitively d...

Alex Clark - host of Culture Apothecary and one of the most prominent voices at the intersection of conservative politics and the health freedom movement - returns to The Art of Being Well for her most honest conversation yet. She breaks down her MAHA report card, the moments that surprised her, the fights that cost her, and the ones she's still picking. She also opens up about the day Charlie Kir...

In Health Hot Take #2, Dr. Will Cole and Andrea go deep on something generating real alarm — not just on social media, but in town halls across the country. AI data centers: what they're emitting, what they're consuming, and what they're doing to the communities around them. They also pull back the curtain on the philosophical movement driving AI acceleration — from 19th century Russian philosophe...

In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Will Cole and his clinical team address a third-year medical student experiencing deep frustration with conventional medicine, answer a practical question about canned chicken safety (and why sardines win every time), and tackle Lyme disease and vertigo — including why upwards of half of Lyme patients can develop POTS-like dysautonomia symptoms, and why a Lyme...

Laura Day — intuitive, author of seven books including The Prism , and the woman Demi Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow credit with changing their lives — joins Dr. Will Cole in New York for one of the most intellectually surprising conversations the podcast has had. Laura explains how intuition is not a gift reserved for special people but a mechanical system anyone can develop, and why the key is bounda...

Dr. Jenn Simmons — former fellowship-trained breast surgeon, functional medicine physician, and founder of Perfection Imaging — joins Dr. Will Cole in New York for one of the most important conversations about women's health this podcast has ever had. She shares the family loss that launched her career, her own cancer diagnosis at 46 that led her to functional medicine, and why she walked away fro...

In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Will Cole and his clinical team tackle three listener questions: whether multivitamins are worth the money (and the clinical trial data that actually supports them), what to do about 12+ fibroids when your OB is recommending a hysterectomy, and how to think about biomagnetism when you have EBV, a possible lupus/Sjogren's diagnosis, and friends pushing tirzepati...

Wade Lightheart — co-founder of BiOptimizers, former natural bodybuilding champion, and one of the most rigorously science-minded people in the supplement world — joins Dr. Will Cole for a deep dive into why magnesium is so uniquely critical right now, how different types of magnesium work differently in the body, and what the brand new Magnesium Gold formula adds to the conversation. Wade also sh...

Dr. Joe Damiani — Doctor of Physical Therapy, TMJ and head-neck pain specialist, and founder of Physio Loops — joins Dr. Will Cole in New York for a deeply practical conversation on why chronic pain persists even when the injury has healed. Dr. Joe explains his Physio Loops framework, the three root drivers of nervous system dysregulation in pain (emotions, trust, and awareness), how to tell wheth...

Nicole Jaques — low-tox living educator, autoimmune patient, and founder of the House CEO platform — joins Dr. Will Cole for a room-by-room walkthrough of the toxins hiding in the average home and exactly what to do about them. Nicole shares the diagnosis that started it all (eosinophilic esophagitis, discovered when she choked on a salad poolside on vacation), why quitting alcohol was the biggest...

In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Will Cole and his clinical team answer three listener questions that each required some real digging. First: a Division I wrestler who was prophylactically given Valtrex by his coach, now graduated and wanting a holistic protocol for herpes gladiatorum. Second: a listener in eating disorder recovery who is fully weight restored, has done BHRT, inositol, and Vit...