Dr. Will Cole On Why You're Aging Faster Than You Think, The Habits That Keep You Young & How To Live Longer

21:44Yeah, it's not the weird time we live in though. It is so strange where it's like, everyone thinks every content's about, only about them and they just are. I think it's a lack of discernment. It's a lack of like, we just want things spoon fed to us and realize and say, maybe just because someone else is doing it doesn't mean I don't have to do it. We're so pacified and weakened as far as our critical thinking skills and discernment. Yeah, we had an incredible cancer researcher on the show. It's all his whole career is like cancer research. And he was giving some advice on, from his perspective, if you could orchestrate the perfect diet and the things that would be the most beneficial to either ward off or fight cancer, what it would be.

22:21And he was talking, it was like, you know, you want to eat these kinds of organic foods and you want to shop in these sections and you want to avoid these areas of the grocery. This guy is like, all he's trying to do is get this messed up. People were acting like he was like the worst guy in the world. I'm like, guys, he's just getting, of course, it's not realistic all the time. But he's saying if in a perfect world, if he could prescribe, that's what he would do. Do what you can. Yes. And I'm like, guys, of course, like you had to do what you can. But this guy is telling you in an ideal scenario that people have to be able to read between the lines.

22:49Pick a few things. Yes. So, yeah, with that said, I think that was actually a good call. So I would say look at kitchen like the things you're using on a daily basis matter. the bioaccumulation of environmental toxins. So like nonstick coated pans, the conventional ones, there's great non-toxic ones, but a single scratch of like Teflon nonstick pans, anything that's water resistant, basically that's conventional can release over 9 ,000 plastic particles. That accumulates over time. So looking and swapping for natural non-toxic pans, cast iron skillets. I think that's a good start. Minimize the amount of plastics you're using in your home.

23:28And you're never going to be plastic free, but minimize it. And then the laundry detergents, the people that use in their home, the conventional ones are a source of endocrine disruption. They create that cellular confusion with your nervous system and your endocrine system, your hormone system. And then of course, beauty products. I mean, that's why women are exponentially more impacted by chronic health problems, specifically autoimmunity, which that cellular the confusion is the most obvious with autoimmunity when the immune system is attacking certain parts of the body. So looking at cleaner, less toxic personal care and beauty products.

24:05So that's a good start. Getting a water filter, getting an air filter like Jasper over there. So I think that's what you need to do.

24:12Dr. Will Cole:What is the Dr. Will Cole approved pan and what are you using for your detergent and what are you using for your skin? Give us your product list. Wow. Okay. The pans that we use in our home is Our Place. They're great. Caraway is another great brand too. I like both. They're both good things, but Our Place is what I typically use. And we use a lot of cast iron skillets too. Detergent? We use the, my wife's going to kill me. She's like, she's, she buys all this stuff. It is Branch Basics. Okay. Branch Basics loves them. Amazing people. I'm sorry again brand names uh branch basics do amazing thing and then skincare I kind of alternate but it's an inside out job it starts with food and nutrient density so polyphenols healthy fats clean protein that is where you start with clear skin but I honestly have so many friends in the space that I kind of alternate and whatever they send me I go in between agent which I formulated Holy May and Holy Radiance for Jenna and other things we're working on.

25:15I love Tina Chen Craig, you know, you beauty. I love you beauty stuff. I love Dr. Barbara Sturm. I mean, so I kind of rotate between these powerhouse women who I all know and love and kind of mix and match with that. And they tell me what to do and I just do what they tell me to do.

25:31Dr. Will Cole:Are you having a cocktail? No, never, never, never mocktails. but I don't drink alcohol. You don't like it? Well, it doesn't love me back. Uh-huh. So it's like, I know I'm going to lose friends here, but it's like, it's not a puritanical judgment thing. It's just, there's so many other options that things that I love that I don't, like something that's going to, it's like a bad trade-off. It's something that's going to make me not feel great the next day. So for me, it's just, I did when I was younger, but it's just not a part of my life anymore. See, but I like that answer because I, again, I think if that's, for you and you've got to that place and like you're in it and you can go and enjoy and be social and have time without that, like great.

26:12What I don't like is like when people are like, hey, a glass of wine is going to kill you and ruin your life. Right. Like that, that drives me nuts. But if you just don't, if you don't like it for you, who cares? Yeah. I don't like it for me. I mean, the research is clear that the healthiest amount of alcohol is none, but, but you, if it's some people can have a healthy relationship with it and it's a few times a year, it's not a lot. I look at their labs and they're just fine. So to pathologize and dramatize, everything's very exhausting. And again, stressing about the thing is sometimes worse than the thing.

26:42Let's talk about stress. And that was going to be the next thing I wanted to jump to. Chronic stress. What's it actually doing to our cells? What's it doing inside of us? Because to your point, maybe you are not partaking in alcohol, but you're an absolute stress case that can't manage. Yeah. Which is the argument that people have. when I talk about the research of how even small amounts of alcohol can impact cellular stress, it's a neurotoxin, it'll impact your nervous system cells. People will say, well, what if you're super stressed? What if you, like, what's stress going to do? And there is an argument, like people can come at me in the comments, but you could make an argument that sort of micro dosing alcohol, it's a small part of your life.

27:18You're doing so many other good things that there may be a hormetic effect with alcohol, meaning it's the dose makes the poison and the dose makes the medicine that's like very mark like mark sisson talks about that okay he does okay and we know polyphenols are xenohermetic in general like things like uh from grapes and resveratrol like the the bright colors and the bitterness of certain plant foods help with cellular repair so there's there is a place for that if it's organic organic biodynamic regenerative um but what your question was what does stress yeah stress like unrelated to alcohol stress you're it's one of those things on the psychological side that's going to activate that that cell danger response.

27:57Your cell membrane, which is the interface with the rest of life itself, life happens on the cell membrane. That's where the receptor sites are, which are the communication tools to other cells and hormones and neurotransmitters. It is another component. Stress is another component that's going to activate that cell danger response or make your cells feel unsafe. So that oxidation, that rigidity of the cell membrane creates a problem, that's cascaded problem because the good nutrients can't get in the cell as efficiently and the byproducts of of uh energy atp from the mitochondria can't get out because of the rigidity of the cell membrane or the oxidation becomes less permeable so as many people that are stressed can have things like constipation because their body's in fight or flight stress state they're wired and tired anxious and exhausted they don't even realize it their body's holding on to things, actually that's happening on a cellular level.

28:53There's cellular constipation because mitochondria are releasing these reactive oxygen species because the body's stressed for mental, emotional reasons or physiological reasons. It can't tell the difference and the cell becomes more stressed. And then on top of that, when you have excess cortisol and excess adrenaline, these fight or flight, freeze, fawn, hypervigilant, sympathetic neurotransmitters, that breakdown of those neurotransmitters and hormones adds stress as well. And all of that puts the body, when the body's in fight or flight, it decreases vagal tone back to that vagal nerve stimulation.

29:26When you have decreased vagal tone, that resting, digesting, peristalsis, that wave-like motion from the gut and the brain, that bidirectional relationship between the gut and the brain, bacteria will grow from the small intestines and from the large intestines into the small intestines. So a lot of people have dysbiosis or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. That will cause leaky gut syndrome, which will cause systemic inflammation. That's all from stress.

29:52Dr. Will Cole:Why are some people looking for stress? Why are there some people that have an intensity about them when it comes to stress? You mean they almost... They almost like... It's like a saber-toothed tiger. Yeah. I think just because something's common, they've normalized it. Some people, is their nervous system is bent towards what's normal. I think that's probably part of it. And we're so conditioned for that hustle culture. I think upbringing too, depending on the environment. We go towards what's familiar. I have every telehealth patient fill out an ACE score, an Adverse Childhood Experiences. And it's looking at things like that stress.

30:27What was their home life growing up? An ACE score of just four, which isn't even that high, exponentially, 10, 15X, depending on the study that you cite, increased risk of autoimmune problems, metabolic problems trouble losing weight what's the scale go to? I mean it could be exponentially high depending on the type of ACE score it is but 15, 20 I've seen it pretty high depending on how many yeses you get I don't know the exact number of how high it could be the highest highest but pretty dang high can you do one of those tests just like yeah maybe I'll get one from you yeah just check it's a questionnaire it's very well it's utilized in conventional medicine and functional medicine very what kind of questions does it ask?

31:07So was there sexual abuse growing up? Like heavy stuff, sexual abuse growing up, physical abuse growing up, neglect growing up. Was there substance abuse in the home growing up? What was your parents' relationship growing up? These are some of the top things. And just saying yes to a few of those increases the likelihood. Those first few years of somebody's life determines that their relationship on a cellular level in many ways, but life itself at the present moment. so people and also being busy and stressed distracts you from the present moment so it's like people are so those are the typically the people the people that are so hell-bent on go go go go go they they're the people that typically say well meditation's not for me and they're typically the people that need to meditate the most they like they like to turn the light super bright in the morning i was just reading a whole They rhymes with Lychel.

32:00Lychel Bostic.

32:01Dr. Will Cole:Thesis on people who are hyper aroused and hypo aroused. And they're different. And I would think that that has a lot, and this is Lauren's science, to do with your cells. Is that true? Yeah. Well, I would say that hyper vigilance. Yeah. That sort of conditioning to be in that hyper vigilant resonance. The parasympathetic is taking a backseat in a lot of different people. And for a lot of people, it is that mental, emotional, spiritual stuff that I will say also informs the physiological, meaning if they're stressed and have unresolved trauma, they're going to do self-sabotaging behaviors like with food and exercise and all the things.

32:40Dr. Will Cole:If you, though, had been in your hyper aroused state in before 2023 and your wife had been like, you need to calm down, like you need to meditate. What would your response have been then? And what is it now? that's a good question i mean i would had said historically that i was doing it i just wasn't doing it enough i feel like you've always been pretty chill yeah yeah but i'm one of those people that i seem chill but i have like a lot of nervous yeah i can you're you have sure you got a lot going on you have a high expectation of self yeah so i would have said what number book is this fifth yeah this is like an over a sheet over there yeah fifth book i've been doing art of being well for five years two episodes a week and again i love all this stuff it's all a blessing you're speaking yeah see patients 10 hours a day two kids yeah wife 21 years married 21 years we're just talking about that wife that will get you the most yeah what's the difference between you then and you now if your wife was to tell you something you're saying if she i wouldn't have listened to her when i wasn't ready for it i would say i'm already doing it babe i'm already doing it, but I didn't have ears to hear.

33:52She saw it before I saw it. She saw it before I saw it, for sure. It's not the case. So in most cases.

33:59Dr. Will Cole:And now that you've acknowledged this, what is her energy towards it? She's happy. She's happy that I'm prioritizing that parasympathetic more. Yeah, I think it makes her happy. When you love somebody and you see, okay yeah they love what they do but they're burning themselves out this is not sustainable and there's not a change of course like you can't want it more than they do and i again i'm great at giving advice sometimes and i was i was doing all the wellness stuff the basic stuff but i wasn't looking at these dark corners we all need to find these dark corners are making ourselves feel and outside of the environmental stuff which we've talked about and we we all talk about a lot what are what are things that people are doing you mentioned millennials are the fastest aging generation a long time.

34:46What are things that we're all doing that are aging us the fastest based on what you guys have looked at? Is it certain behaviors? Is it certain foods? Is it certain, you know, what is it? Yeah, I would say the foods are a big part of it. The environmental toxin piece, we talked about that. Food is definitely another common common. If you're looking at the low hanging fruits of what I see most often in most people, it's going to be the stress trauma piece, spiritual disconnection, which that's another one that like people shouldn't sleep on. I really feel like on an individual basis and a larger societal basis, our collective relationship with God is an important thing.

35:21It informs a lot of things. And the science shows that too. People that have a regular faith practice tend to have lower high sensitivity C-reactive protein levels. They tend to have lower mortality risks, which is kind of controversial to say in some cases, but it's just true.

35:39Dr. Will Cole:I have a better day when I listen to things like Dr. Wayne Dyer, it changes the day. It does. Yeah. It's because it's shifting this whole state. If I have a spiritual practice in the day, the day is better. Yeah. So prayer, gratitude. Have you guys had Dr. Lisa Miller on Columbia? You need to have her on. She talks about this resilience that people that have a faith practice have. Resilience is what the world is lacking. There's a guy named Patrick Bett David. Do you know who that is? You know Patrick. Yeah. And I watched a clip from him one time and he was talking about spirituality, spirituality, religion, just in general.

36:14And I think he was saying, and again, like this, if I'm butchering this in the PCs, this clip, but he was basically saying like, maybe he was a non-believer or wasn't, no, maybe not that. Maybe he wasn't as connected to spirituality, but then he like started going through his life. He's like, life is so hard. You know, being an entrepreneur is so hard. The chips are stacked so against you from an odds perspective, just in life in general. and he's like it makes so much sense to just take all the help you can get and it's when he said that i was like it resonated with me because i'm like yeah like what is the downside of having a faith-based mindset whatever that whatever your religion or practice may be because it's all so hard taking every advantage like yeah why not yeah right and i think like even if you're someone who's resistant to religion or faith or whatever like if you think about it from that perspective it's just like why not just stack the deck as much as you can get as much support as you can That's how I think about it.

37:05Well, 100%. Yeah, there was a Harvard study that found that people that had a faith practice had a 33 % decreased risk of dying over a 16-year period. I mean, it's study after study. And yes, it's correlative. We don't, there's, a lot of this stuff is mystery. But it's making the cells feel safer, I think, is a major part of that. Even getting out in nature, I call it God art. It's like, get around the ineffable, the majesty, the wonder. It's not all about you. Get out of your sort of self-obsessed world that our social media feeds, that sort of dopaminergic, cheap dopamine hit. Get out and wonder as medicine and moving your body.

37:42And the research does show that. I mean, that's not religion, but that is God's creation, in my opinion, of this research out of Japan and South Korea of Shinrin-yoku and forest bathing and using nature as a medicine and meditation. And we know the mechanisms. Like, it's the frequency from the earth. It can sound woo-woo, but it's not. It's God made nonpolarized EMF that the earth makes. It actually tells ourselves to be in more frequency with nature.

38:06Dr. Will Cole:This is why I want my kids to go on a walk every morning. Thank you, Dr. Will. You're changing my mornings. Resilience is what the world is lacking. You just said. Yeah. Can you elaborate on that? Yeah. We're addicted to being, we are as a culture addicted to cheap dopamine hits and being offended. And these sort of siloed in the algorithm feeds that the sort of confirmation bias that happens. And we're so fragile. We're so fragile. And when we hear other people that maybe have a different opinion of us, many people, especially people that claim to be the most tolerant and the most progressive, are the biggest bullies on social media.

38:47And I think that exists in many camps online and in real life. We're lacking resilience. It's okay to hear, even like we said about that caveat that I had to give earlier, like It's okay to hear information and have discernment and critical thinking to know, yeah, it's maybe good for somebody else. It's not good for me. But we just get so rattled and we make everything about us. We become so pathology, you know, so egoic. Yeah. I mean, I think if you're an individual spending your time trying to tear somebody else down that's a stranger online, you have to at that point pause and take a look at your life and say, what am I doing?

39:23Yeah. One, it's not productive for you. Two, it's not a kind thing to do. And three, if that's where all of your interests are going or where you're spending your time, you're just holding yourself back. Because I promise you, nobody who's winning in life is taking any time to do anything like that. I've never met anyone on this show or somebody who is happy in life or that is doing well in life with their family or their friends or their business that is spending time trying to tear down other people. It just doesn't happen. I met a lot of miserable, successful people that do that, but I've never met a happy person.

39:57Yeah. That's what I mean. That's what I'm getting out in nature, having a spiritual connection. You're way less likely to, and I'm not saying just rote religiosity. We don't really mean religious people, but I'm saying deep, a spiritual connection to God and to people around you and treat other people the way that you want to be treated. It'd be really hard to come at somebody in the comment section on social media. So I think there's a lack of resilience in our culture for sure, because of all of these things. I look when I look at labs, I can understand why we are dysregulated as a culture and hurt people, hurt people.

40:30As the cliche goes, dysregulated people act out on that dysregulation.

40:34Dr. Will Cole:Have you ever tried cranial sacral? I haven't. I wanted I wanted to. It's on my bucket list. Some people come on this show and I just it comes up. And this one, I feel like you would love cranial sacral. Have you done it? I'm obsessed with it. Have you done it? I've done it. I like it. yeah she gets a she gets um what i've been told is what am i what's what is it with me i'm a little bit more he is locked off cranial sacral is where your body she just or he touches your body and your body heals itself so the it's not like a practitioner doing body work where they're the healer it's your body healing itself i've done similar things like reiki and energy i like it's similar it's similar to reiki yeah i've done reiki before it's similar um i think that you should try I'll try it out.

41:20We should do it.

41:21Dr. Will Cole:I feel like, I don't know how long you're here for, but I leave tomorrow. Okay. Well, next time we have a good recommendation. Can you let me know? Yeah. Because I feel like you would really appreciate it, especially with all the spirituality that you've been talking about. And I, I find it to be very, very helpful. It's my kids love it. Yeah. It's very spiritual. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Energy work is a great tool. Acupuncture. Fantastic. Tai Chi, all that stuff. It's all parasympathetic. Yep. It's all connected. Yeah. To your body. I notice like a huge difference in my body when I do it, but it seems like very related to the things that you're talking about, which is Vegas, Nerve, etc.

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46:09Dr. Will Cole:That's code SKINNY for 20 % off your first order. What does EMF, we're going off on a tangent, do to yourselves? It's another thing that makes our cells feel unsafe because our body is electric. We have an electric cellular conductivity that that's how our cells communicate between each other. That's how electrolytes, all the conversations around electrolytes, sodium, potassium, magnesium, what do they do? They help with electroconductivity at a cellular level. They help cells communicate via electricity. Why are people so resistant to talking about EMF? I don't know. I think it's back to that, probably that caveat.

46:49People are just like, we're screwed. And it's always, you know, it's, I think sometimes the nuance and context can be lost with like short clips. So then things get taken out of context. And then people overcorrect either way.

47:04Dr. Will Cole:Our next show is going to be called Taking Out of Context. Yeah. Taking Out of Context. I mean, listen, people take. And then they just shut down. They just burn out and shut down. It's a real, it's a real conversation. Well, listen, we've been talking, who knows, like, show them in an hour. somebody will find something for 30 seconds and say, these people are destroying the world, right? Like that's what'll happen. How do you protect your cells from EMF? Yeah. So some basic things that I, that I do that we recommend to our patients and you can go, you can go to the level that you want to, right?

47:33Lean into this stuff. I have EMF, like a soma vedic EMF harmonizer.

47:39Dr. Will Cole:You have that in your room, the silver one. yeah mine's green i think okay yeah i have this omavidic i have the um the lila quantum devices that are you've been in is that the like the gold looking yeah you put the stuff in them where you go to like sun life organic you know that yeah yeah um they have them in there so these are mild emf i think khalil lives in one of those things like a human size khalil definitely lives in the lila quantum for sure so these are mild ways the big bigger guns are going to be not sleeping with your phone at night. It's all about night. That's when your cells are rejuvenating.

48:15There's autophagy, metophagy. So sleep with your phone outside of the room or turn it off. You don't do it.

48:22Dr. Will Cole:No, I do. We do. Of course I do. I'm so happy to have this conversation. I think it's one of the most important things you can do. 100%. And you should, you can put those EMF lockers underneath your bed. the best way to shut down the EMFs is a Faraday cage. You just turn it off at night? Well, it's a Faraday cage. It's kind of like it looks like a mosquito net. Oh, that goes around your bed. I'd do it if Michael would let me. I would do a mosquito net. It's not actually a mosquito net, but it looks like a mosquito net. Yeah, but it's not. Faraday cage sounds like I'm going to sleep in a cage now.

48:58But it's more of like a net. They need to rebrand it.

49:00Dr. Will Cole:Those headlines, Dr. Will tells us to sleep in a cage. Yeah, every night I crawl down, I lock myself in my basement and dig a hole and what kind of kinky stuff yeah i put a hat on and i just stay down there until someone came on the show i think it was um dr pompa okay and he said i talk about him in the book he was my dad's best friend oh wow what i've known another background on dr pompa i talk about him in the book because he went through his own healing journey i've known him since the 80s yeah he was a trainer in my dad's gold gym because your dad was a bodybuilder my dad was a bodybuilder we've was my dad's best friend.

49:35He was a trainer. And that's how he got Dan got into the health space. My dad. Wow.

49:40Dr. Will Cole:Wow. Yeah. You've got to have him on your show if you have not. Oh, yeah. No, we've tried to make it happen. He lives in Utah now, but he's from Pennsylvania where I'm from. He's great on a mic. He told me, I think it was him to put Shanghai. Oh, yes. In the house. So Michael doesn't know this, but in the drawers in our beds, we have drawers like in the bed. I have all these shangai rocks and then downstairs by all the electricity I have a huge crystal and then Michael also doesn't know this I drop it into his water um yeah I put it in his like um not your water bottle like your aminos like a big rock oh that's the thing I always thought that was just shaking around my my stuff breaking up apparently yeah crystals certain crystals have some it absorbs yeah and i that's another one i didn't think about yeah we have crystals around the house too are you into that yeah from my emf blocking i consider them god art as well as like the way that bringing nature into your home in general that's why even just talk about emf mitigation it's getting out nature like connecting putting your feet in the grass get jumping in the water is one of the best ways like a natural body of water if you have access to it and then if you can turn off your electricity to your room like with the breaker if you if it doesn't if it's not attached to like a fridge or something you need to keep on through at night like it's not just about the 5g and the wi-fi turn off your wi-fi at night like that's a non-negotiable everyone should be turning what do you use to turn off your wi-fi just kill switch yeah can you get me one of those for our anniversary i want to kill switch and uh the electricity is wild we had Brian from test my home come into our house and test the house and he said watch this and he turned all the electricity off in my home and you immediately feel a shift in your nervous system it's it's insane and I think to have the electricity off when I'm sleeping just sounds like a dream well listen I think like again I just think from a nervous regulation perspective if we're talking about stress in general yeah what happens is you normalize symptoms like I I think we can all agree that we are becoming sicker as a population.

51:50That's why you have all these chronic diseases happening younger and younger, people getting sicker and sicker, bigger and bigger. Everyone knows that that's happening. So now the question is, and what people don't agree on is how that's happening. We've talked about environmental toxins. We've talked about food. We've talked about all the things we've talked about, stress and trauma. But if the environment is part of this, it's so foreign because it's hard to measure. like you don't like you know wi-fi is on it's not burning my skin right now you don't see a physical thing happening right now that doesn't mean that there's not something that's ticking away at you on a regular basis the other thing is is we're so disconnected from just living without these things being in nature being around without electronics being around that you just this is the new norm that we all live in and you can't really feel that or figure that out until you leave these environments and go into those places that's why a lot of people are drawn to that but But if you're a city dweller or you've been in an office a long time or you've been in an environment like this your whole life, it's almost like you just don't know until you try it type thing.

52:53So I'm never resistant to these things because what I've realized is if you would go back 25 years and say that these pesticides and herbicides are not good for us, people will look at you like you were nuts. If you were to go back to our parents' generation, speaking to millennials, and said, hey, Red 5 and all these dyes and all these things, artificial flavors, and our food is bad. First, people would have looked at you like you were nuts. We've come a long way. We now know that these things are harmful. I think that this conversation is just going to be another one of those conversations that 20 years from now, people are like, yeah, that wasn't that great, and you had to mitigate it.

53:26Dr. Will Cole:And flexibility of the mind is a sign of intelligence. So just because something was true yesterday doesn't mean it's not worth looking into today. In the 40s and 50s, people would smoke cigarettes and people like, you know, it was not until the 60s that big tobacco started getting hit by the government. Like people back then thought it was this is a great thing to do. One thing that my entire family does is we spray beekeepers naturals all the time. We do four sprays in our throat. There's a kid's version and there's an adult version. And it's the immune support throat spray. I like to specifically use this when I'm traveling or when I'm feeling like a lot of people are getting sick.

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56:00Dr. Will Cole:And this for me is everything when it comes to travel. So how I use this is if I'm traveling or I'm running out the door and I want to use ice on my face. So I keep these in my freezer or my fridge, just depends on what I'm feeling. And then I'll throw it in my handbag. So one side is a contour, which is amazing. So you're going to feel nice and tight and lifted and sculpted when you use this. And then the other side, bite size, is an ice roller. So this one you could use on your neck so you can feel refreshed and de-puffed in the morning. I am obsessed with this because it's compact. It's like a compact ice roller that you can just throw in your purse.

56:43Dr. Will Cole:if you have not tried our mint roller. Go grab it now. Also, it comes in a little dust bag that we designed, which is so fun. You are all set to be tight, sculpted, and de-puffed with the Skinny Confidential Mint Roller. Go to shopskinnyconfidential.com to shop the limited colorway now. What is Dr. Will's boundaries around your phone? I'm sure you have boundaries. It's one of my weak points. I'm not great at it. Really? Yeah. I'm getting better at it. Okay. Um, but yeah, it's, it's one of those things that I am on it too much. Yeah. I'm on it too much. I'm answering emails. Like I have a lot of things that I have checked and I'm solid at and I'm working there, but I would say it's the biggest thing for me is not being on it so late at night.

57:29And that's where I'm leaning into. And then not being out first thing in the morning, allowing this buffer time, but I am on my phone a lot.

57:36Dr. Will Cole:I am. And I think maybe that just is good for people to hear that people that are in wellness it's like you don't we're not perfect in all the areas well that's what i was saying early on it's like i really do look at this stuff like if i can be good and disciplined the majority of the time yeah then i can slip or indulge here and there and be okay i think the problem is a lot of the times we we live in a way where we're not kind to our bodies for the majority of the time and then when you do the bad things then it really has a cascading effect right like yeah if you're if you're not taking care of your body you're not sleeping white you're chronically stressed you're eating shitty foods and then you're out on the weekends partying and drinking and doing things like that's not good yeah but if you're consistent most of the time it's like okay fine yeah i will say one thing is that maybe it's it's relative i feel like i'm on my phone a lot but when you're busy busyness will do a lot to for you to not to be on your phone so i'm when you're seeing patients all day long and doing podcasts, you're not on your phone.

58:38So there's big chunks of day where I can't be because I'm scheduled, but I'm looking at a screen because I'm in telehealth. So is that my phone? Yeah, partly it is. I'm in telehealth. So I'm on a screen a lot, but it's for work.

58:51Dr. Will Cole:Before you go, I would love for you to tell the audience, if there's someone listening that feels 10 years older than they are, what should they look at? What are the things, what are the things they can find in this book that would really help them feel their age or younger? I would start with, well, where 75 % of the immune system is in your gut. So if you're looking at, okay, where the heck do I start? The gut is, it's more specifically the cells of the gut lining, which is like one cell thick. It's very thin. It's very easily, the cells of the gut, the gastrointestinal system are very easily stressed.

59:25So that seminal event of leaky gut syndrome, things passing through the gut cells that shouldn't be able to pass through the gut cells. That's happening in a lot of people. So the more you can create the sort of cellular siesta in the gut and calm a stressed out gut. So things like soups and stews are one of the best first things people can do because that's where inflammation is a product of the immune system. That is a big contributing factor to these hallmarks of aging. So do some brothing and souping. Most people tolerate it really well. Bone broth based soups and stews. Bone broth. Oh, bone broth clip.

59:59Here we go. Part two. Just eat bone broth all day long. Me and Gwyneth Paltrow.

1:00:07If you just eat bone broth for one year straight. I'm just kidding. Don't put that in there. Actually, put it in. Keep it in. Let's see if we can get another clip going. It all comes back to bone broth. This episode is brought to you by bone broth. No, actually, it's not. So I think these ancient foods. I mean, look, when people are sick, the chicken noodle soup, it's not the noodles that people that got healthy from. It's the broths. It's the soups. It's easy to digest. And then I would say the compounds that I love, we're talking about cellular repair, xenohormesis, which I talked about earlier, but they're plants that went through tough times in their life.

1:00:40Like think of like a pungent extra virgin olive oil, kind of a bitter extra virgin olive oil or like a bright, deep colored pomegranate or berries or teas like puerh, oolong tea, green tea, black tea or cow even like a chocolate, herbs and spices. like rosemary, thyme, basil, bright colors of turmeric, the brightness and the bitterness are compounds like polyphenol compounds and sulfur compounds that the plant makes to defend itself because it went through a tough time. So the cells of the plant teach ourselves to be more resilient, back to resilience, actually help upregulate these cellular repair mechanisms like autophagy.

1:01:17Dr. Will Cole:What's the one with the Z? Xenohormesis. What's that? It's an X. It's like X. Xenohormesis is just a term that's used in the scientific literature of plants that create a hermetic effect. And what kind of plants are these? So those. The ones. Basil. Herbs and spices. Any herbs and spices. Colorful ones. The bitter ones. Bitter ones. Pomegranates, blackberries, blueberries. Can you cook them? Depending on what you're using. Like if I'm making a phone broth. Oh, you're not going to ruin the compounds by cooking them. That's so good. I can throw basil in it. And actually we'll make them more bioavailable.

1:01:51because a lot of the fibers and plant anti-nutrients can actually lock up some of these. So cooking them within reason is going to help make them more bioavailable because remember, you aren't just what you eat or supplement with, you are what you absorb. And by properly preparing things in soups and stews, you actually can help with them be absorbed better.

1:02:08Dr. Will Cole:Heal Your Cells, Dr. Will Cole and Dr. Josh Axe. Thank you for coming back on the show. You're a wealth of knowledge. Thanks, guys. Fourth time. Fourth time. Check out the other episodes too, guys. Where can we find your book and your podcast? Thanks, guys. I really appreciate you for your years of support and kindness. And honestly, you guys know what it's like to have a book come out. And yeah, I appreciate you having me back. Everything's at drwillcole.com. The links to the book, just head to books. The podcast is called The Art of Being Well. Just head to podcast for that. And I put tons of free resources.

1:02:39I've been writing for 15 years about different health topics. So just use the search engine there. Yeah, it's all there.

1:02:44Dr. Will Cole:New York Times bestselling author. I'm manifesting that for this one. Dr. Will Cole, thank you man Thanks guys, love you guys