The “Body Positivity” Hoax, Glyphosate Gaslighting & Regenerative Homesteading | Ask Me Anything

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In today’s Ask Me Anything, we start with a question that I know will resonate with a lot of people: Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). If you’ve been told your tests are “normal,” but your symptoms are very real - tremors, gait issues, vertigo, fatigue, brain fog - it can feel isolating and discouraging. We talk about what FND means in the conventional setting (often a diagnosis of exclusion) and why, clinically, I’m less interested in a label and more focused on the “why” behind the neuroinflammation.

From a functional medicine lens, this is where a thoughtful health history and the right diagnostics matter - not just to confirm what’s happening, but to understand what’s driving it. We discuss the inflammatory spectrum and the stage many people live in for years: symptomatic, reactive inflammation that doesn’t check all the “boxes” yet. The goal is to work backwards - identify the root contributors and build a plan that fits your bioindividual needs.

We also answer a practical question from a listener building a homestead and trying to avoid conventional herbicides. We talk about safer swaps for small-scale use, brands people are using, and the mindset shift most of us need: not everything “wild” in the yard is a problem - biodiversity matters, and the bees need it.

We also answer a practical question from a listener building a homestead and trying to avoid conventional herbicides. We talk about safer swaps for small-scale use, brands people are using, and the mindset shift most of us need: not everything “wild” in the yard is a problem - biodiversity matters, and the bees need it.

A few of my favorite things we cover in this episode: 

• Functional Neurological Disorder (FND): why it’s often a diagnosis of exclusion, why people feel dismissed, and why “the label isn’t the healing”
• A functional medicine lens on neuroinflammation: health history, environmental exposures (including mold/biotoxins), and why symptoms can be real even when conventional testing is inconclusive
• The inflammatory spectrum: “silent inflammation,” “inflammation reactivity,” and the stage where people are symptomatic but don’t meet conventional criteria yet
• Regenerative living at home: non-toxic ways to manage “weeds,” and the reframe that weeds are often just plants where you don’t want them
• Small-scale DIY options and brands that aim to be safer alternatives to conventional weed killers (plus the role of biodiversity and bees)
• Glyphosate update: what’s happening in policy/legal news, what consumers should understand, and why “small exposures” don’t exist in isolation (it’s cumulative)
• Practical activism + practical living: “vote with your dollars,” transparency with farms, and supporting better systems while pushing for better policy
• Cultural hot topic: Jillian Michaels vs “body positivity,” and the difference between self-worth, eating disorder sensitivity, and metabolic health

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• Spruce (non-toxic weed killer)
• “People vs the Poison” rally on April 27th
• No Immunity for Glyphosate Act
• Jubilee debate: Jillian Michaels vs body positivity

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Happy listening, and we hope you learned a little bit more on the art of being well!

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In Health,

Dr. Will Cole