The Dr. Josh Axe Show

Exhausted in the morning but wired at night? Dr. Josh Axe explores how stress and disrupted cortisol rhythms may affect your energy, sleep, and hormones. He ranks seven strategies to support a healthier rhythm, discusses herbs studied for stress support, and shares the weekly habit he values more than any supplement.

Dr. Josh Axe joins Dr. Will Cole to reveal how a stem-cell treatment led to a life-threatening spinal infection—and the protocol that helped him recover. They explore hyperbaric oxygen therapy, peptides, GLP-1 drugs, adaptogens, stem-cell safety, grief and the science of extending healthspan.

Your body makes its own master antioxidant — but after 40, production drops every year and most people never know it's low until something breaks. Dr. Axe walks through the clinical evidence, the exact blood marker hiding on your last lab panel, and a 4-step protocol to rebuild glutathione at the cellular level — without expensive IVs.

Dr. Gez Agolli has spent nearly 30 years using integrative medicine to treat cancer, autoimmune disease, and chronic illness — and what he's found challenges almost everything conventional medicine teaches about healing. Josh calls him one of his top two mentors in functional medicine, and this conversation covers the full protocol: terrain, toxicity, advanced therapies, and why testing matters more than guessing.

In This Episode:
- Why toxicity — not just genetics — is the #1 root cause of cancer right now, and what 3.3 billion pounds of environmental chemicals are doing to the body's terrain
- How hyperthermia, high-dose vitamin C (the right kind), and hyperbaric oxygen work together — and which chemotherapy drugs make hyperbaric oxygen contraindicated
- What insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) actually does: using fractionated chemo alongside glucose to target cancer cells directly
- The circulating tumor cell tests and liquid biopsy markers (including Signatera and ctDNA) that can predict cancer recurrence 6–12 months before a scan shows anything
- Why leaky gut is the root cause of autoimmune disease — and what Dr. Agolli's testing protocol reveals that most doctors never order
- The glutathione, F2-isoprostane, and GGT markers that measure oxidative stress at the cellular level, and what happens when you address them

Chapters:
- "00:00:00" – Intro: Cancer Stats & Meeting Dr. Guez Agolli
- "00:02:47" – His Origin Story & the Broken Healthcare System
- "00:06:50" – What Cancer Is: Cell Biology & Root Causes
- "00:13:46" – Sponsor Break: Heal Yourself Book
- "00:14:31" – Parasites, Immune System & Terrain Theory
- "00:19:57" – Advanced Cancer Testing: The RGCC (Greek) Test
- "00:25:38" – Top Cancer Therapies: Hyperthermia, IPT & the 40-Day Protocol
- "00:39:26" – Sponsor Break: Health Institute Bloodwork
- "00:40:27" – Testing Philosophy: Micronutrients, Food Sensitivities & Glucose
- "00:54:44" – Glutathione, Longevity & Reversing Autoimmune Disease
- "01:05:12" – Mitochondria, Closing Thoughts & Closing

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*Disclaimer: The bloodwork our team runs at mybloodwork.com covers a handful of the biomarkers listed in the guide above — including critical thyroid and metabolic markers — plus a 1-hour consultation with a Senior Health Advisor, but does NOT cover all 25. You will want to consult your primary or functional doctor for the entire list.

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Your hormones, your sleep, your stress, your diet — they may all be affecting your health at a much deeper level than you realize. Dr. Josh Axe sits down with functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole and fitness and biohacking educator Dylan Gemelli for a no-holds-barred roundtable on what may actually be driving chronic disease, accelerated aging, hormonal dysfunction, and poor metabolic health — and why healing may need to start at the cellular level. In this episode, we learn why Dr. Axe and Dr. Cole believe cellular health could change how we approach chronic disease — and how to identify which systems in your body may be aging faster than others.

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Podcast → The Dylan Gemelli Podcast

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 — The Biggest Drivers of Chronic Disease

02:29 — Welcome to the Health & Longevity Roundtable

03:07 — Why Cellular Health May Be the Future of Medicine

06:10 — Is One of Your Organs Aging Faster Than the Rest?

08:22 — How Early Do Health Problems Really Begin?

12:30 — The Blood Markers That Could Reveal Heart Disease Risk

18:12 — What Insulin Resistance Actually Means

19:59 — The 2 Hormones That Can Throw Everything Off

22:58 — The Surprising Connection Between Sleep & Insulin Resistance 25:10 — “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” Is Destroying Your Health

31:32 — Waking Up at 3 A.M.? Cortisol May Be the Reason

32:43 — How to Lower Stress & Support Your Vagus Nerve

37:18 — How Your Mind & Nervous System Affect Your Health

41:32 — Can Childhood Trauma Keep You From Healing?

43:55 — Forgiveness, Faith & the Nervous System

48:11 — Why Dylan Believes Health Starts With “Mind, Body & God”

51:11 — Can Faith Actually Help You Live Longer?

58:35 — The Truth About Peptides & Where Medicine Is Headed

1:03:29 — Are Peptides Overhyped or the Future of Health?

1:05:31 — Conventional vs. Functional Medicine

1:10:14 — How to Increase Your Healthspan, Not Just Your Lifespan

1:11:01 — Why Gut Health Matters for Longevity

1:12:46 — The Best Exercise for Mitochondria & Healthy Aging

1:16:23 — Why Women Shouldn't Be Afraid of Strength Training

1:19:32 — Keto, Carnivore & Vegan: Why Extreme Diets Can Backfire

1:21:29 — Bio-Individuality: There Is No Perfect Diet for Everyone

1:27:30 — Is Health Advice Actually Making People More Stressed?

1:29:03 — Seed Oils vs. Saturated Fat: What's Actually Healthier?

1:39:12 — The 5 Foods Josh Axe & Will Cole Would Choose for Life

1:43:11 — Josh & Will Reveal Their Favorite Cheat Foods

1:45:29 — Are We Eating Too Much Protein?

1:50:01 — Do You Really Need Fiber?

1:55:12 — The #1 Health Lesson From Josh, Will & Dylan

1:57:16 — Dylan's Final Message: God First, Health Second