Functional Medicine for Health & Wellness is about finding the root cause of symptoms, so you can improve energy, sleep, focus, resilience, and longevity.

In this episode of The OWN IT Show, Justin Roethlingshoefer sits down with Dr. Will Cole to break down what functional medicine really is (root cause medicine vs symptom chasing), why functional medicine telehealth matters, and how to filter modern health & wellness noise with discernment.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

✅ What Functional Medicine actually is (evidence-based + diagnostics/labs + root-cause healing)
✅ Why telehealth functional medicine matters (how Will built a virtual functional medicine clinic early)
✅ A discernment filter for modern health & wellness (major in the majors, stop chasing noise)
✅ The gut–brain axis + inflammation connection (“if your gut is off, your brain is off”)
✅ How stress/trauma + the nervous system impact physiology (and why burnout is bi-directional)
✅ The OWN IT thesis: health as worship, not performance (faith + physiology together)
✅ Why “normal labs” doesn’t always mean “healthy” (rapid-fire segment)

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About Dr. Will Cole

Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional medicine expert who consults people around the world, having started the first functional medicine telehealth centers in the world. Named one of the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in the nation, Cole specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional medicine approach for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and brain problems.

Dr. Will Cole is the host of The Art of Being Well podcast and bestselling author of:

📚 Intuitive Fasting
📚 Gut Feelings
📚 Ketotarian
📚 The Inflammation Spectrum

New book (with Dr. Josh Axe):

📘 Heal Your Cells: Reversing the Irreversible — A Proven Plan to Heal Faster, Reclaim Energy, and Unlock Longevity
🔗 Available for pre-order now.

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Functional Medicine for Health & Wellness with Dr. Will Cole